WritingPrompts

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[WP] For every person with a superpower, there is another with a superweakness. You are the leader of the superweak, trying to bring the world’s attention to the impact that superheroes have had on your kind. This is difficult, because your weakness is that people rarely agree with you.	9
[WP] One day you erupt in an uncontrollable fit of sneezing. When you finally stop, you open your eyes to find you’re standing in the middle of a crowd on a beach, you’re wearing a HAZMAT suit, and everything is covered in rainbow glitter.	9
[SP] Describe a day in the life of the object sitting to your immediate left as you read this prompt.	9
[WP] The sun rises over the battlefield, orange light covering the fallen like a gentle caress from the heavens. The lone survivor walks slowly towards the fortress and the final battle. With determination on his face, he murmurs gently to himself. “This is why you don’t hassle The Hoff.”	9
[WP] You invent time travel and start travelling through history, but everywhere you go, you see John Malkovich—whether driving a horse and carriage, forging samurai swords, or sailing a ship, he’s there. He usually runs away, but today in the 15th century Caribbean, you finally catch up to him.	9
[WP] You are the first human to invent a shrink ray. The only problem is that it doesn’t work on physical objects, it can only shrink emotions—which gives you a handy method to boost someone’s confidence, by shrinking their fear.	9
[WP] Scientific knowledge has progressed until everything is known, making the future entirely deterministic. But you have something that messes with the simulations—free will. And that makes you dangerous.	9
[WP] After taking a short video with your phone, you notice the file is much longer than it should be. Confused, you play the video. It starts as expected, but a few seconds in the whole world seems to freeze. Then, and strange figure enters the screen and stares directly at the camera.	9
[WP] One day you clone yourself to get out of going to work. The next day, your clone clones themselves to get out of going to work. A couple of weeks later, it takes you 20 minutes to get through the line to the bathroom but at least you have enough clones to create a professional sporting team.	9
[WP] You live in a world of prophecy, where second sons of second sons can bring about the downfall of an empire. But you have a secret weapon, for you are Gnome Ann, and you are able to boldly go where Gnome Ann has gone before.	9

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