/u/theAlpacaLives's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Death always lets the doomed challenge him to any sport or game to save their lives. Death comes for a six-year-old boy. Death doesn't remember learning about Calvinball.
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[WP] The more she fusses about 'not understanding these gadgets,' the more you feel like your grandmother's faking her technological illiteracy. In fact, you think she might be the dangerous hacker known only as '4Chan.'
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[WP] Write something that gets increasingly dark and disturbing, that ends up being a long setup to a terrible pun.
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[WP] Trapped in a Groundhog Day scenario, you meet one other person who is aware of the repeating days. He or she is your polar opposite. What do you do. Tell the story over the years of repeated days.
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[WP] Two narrators are trying to tell totally different stories. One controls the characters' actions, the other their words.
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[WP] A hotshot rookie and grizzled vet a week vefore retirement take on what is supposed to be an easy case. They easily solve it and jail the crooks. There's still an hour left in the movie, but they don't know what to do.
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[WP] You've stumbled into a huge conspiracy. A secret organization that quietly controls... the most insignificant thing possible.
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[WP][CW] Use a famous literary first or last line. Tell a story with a loosely parallel plot to the quoted work, but in a totally different setting and with a completely different tone.
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[WP] The only hot lead on an important cold case hits a dead end: the only group with the information you need is known in the department as the Society of Old Crazy Kooks -- conspiracy theorists, insane ramblers, friendly dementiacs, who knows? Tell us how you infiltrate SOCK.
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