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At the age of 18 , everyone is required to take a general intelligence test . Failing the test is justification for death , or the remaining time of your life into intensive labor . Today is your 18th birthday .
I am emotionally dead , almost to a level of a sociopath . I want to feel again . Make me feel .
This is the prologue ( or the first chapter ) of the novel you 've always wanted to write .
A new strain of tree suddenly appears which grows to cover as much land as possible and will grow back if cut down . This strain first appears on farmlands ...
The year is 2315 and the Amish are living like its the 21st century .
You are an assassin sent back in time to kill one historic figure . Who causes the most damage ?
You are a vampire supernaturally bound by the ancient rule , `` you can not enter a home without being invited . '' One night , you ca n't walk out your front door .
In a parallel universe , conflicts are decided by a duel between the leader of the countries involved .
You are a time travelling psychologist who is sent on assignments to try and prevent people from doing something horrible in the future . Today you are sent just 7 days back in time to meet your assigned person , an 8 year old girl named Maura .
Lady Luck has fallen in love with you .
Your main character has 3 wishes . How do they use them .
You finally see your father . 4 long years , and still , the prison jumpsuit does nothing for him . You pick up the handset on your side of the cubicle . Today 's visit is different . Today he changes your world- forever .
You are the world 's greatest detective , able to solve any case with a single guess . You are ... One Hunch Man .
Its the finals of the hide and seek world championships , and you are against your toughest challenge yet . His name is wally , but many people know him as waldo- and he was the champion for the last 10 years . You are determined to win .
You have lived alone for years in a post apocalyptic land with no living thing to speak to . Show your descent into insanity in the form of a series of diary entries ... you still believe yourself to be completely sane .
Write the opening to a story set in the present day without any supernatural , superhuman or science-fiction elements
Run !
You ’ re part of a secret program to send a human to a neighboring solar system . Somehow you land on earth , no one remembers your mission and they treat you as the first life form to visit Earth .
A woman walks down a dusty road with a backpack . It contains the end of the world .
One year ago a teleporter experiment went awry , affecting all living humans . The location of every single person on the planet was randomly shuffled . How does the world look now ?
You have arrived in the place where lost pens go .
A man has a recurrent dream for years . In the dream he sees a park bench from behind , with a woman sitting on it . Today , his dream becomes reality .
A drug deal goes horribly wrong
You are a good person who has lived their life trying to do as little harm as possible . One day you wake with the exact time and date of your death burned into your mind . You will die in less than a week , however you instinctively know that for every life you take , you gain seven more days .
A world where people can store the adrenaline rush and aggressiveness of their anger for later use . Keep enough rage inside and you can , literally and figuratively , hulk out . Now , in your city there 's a person who 's never been visibly angry ...
You wake up in the morning and step outside to go to work , only to see something extremely unusual in the sky .
`` To this day , I ca n't stand the smell of eggs . '' Write me a story explaining why .
In a world where all humans are cannibals..
A man has the ability to smell death . The greater the stench , the closer a person is to dying . He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality . Every person he passes reeks of death .
`` Twerk '' has just been added to the dictionary , but there is no Miley Cyrus . Come up with an alternate origin .
Two people are driving to an intersection where they will meet . Both are contemplating suicide .
Donald Trump is a fictional satirical character ( a la Stephen Colbert ) . The dedicated actor playing him is getting increasingly desperate for someone to get the joke .
In a world where they are illegal you are called to prove that the pun was not intended
`` Name your desire , mortal ! '' `` Oh I do n't want anything I was just checking if the summoning portal worked . '' `` That 's not how it works , I ca n't go home until I trade a wish for your soul . '' `` Looks like we 're stuck together then . ''
Everyone has powers locked within them . Each power is different , and the longer it takes for a power to manifest , the greater it is . A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless .
The elevator opens . It 's full of something unexpected .
Every time you fall a sleep you wake up where you left off the night before . The dream only ends when you go to sleep in it . This has happened as long as you can remember and you 're having trouble remembering which life is real .
You 're a seven year old who pulls the blanket over their head when you feel something tap your arm .
As I sob quietly in the dark corner , the man with the three white wolves at his side says , `` What does it matter , if we got the job done ? ''
A small shop opens up in your town that bottles and sells dreams . For a small price you can guarantee what you 'll see when you close your eyes that night , or record and donate a dream of your own to be sold .
At age of 25 , everyone enters a lottery to determine who will become immortal . Your SO makes it and you do n't .
Give this sentence a happy ending - A man took of his wedding band and placed it on the bar top , looked at it for a while , then left .
Pick one person in your life ( does n't have to be somebody important ) and write about them and an interaction with them , but dramatize them like they 're in a John Green novel .
Being an adult is your day job . You just got fired .
The remnants of a letter are found , musty with age . Most of it has been destroyed , leaving behind only the words , `` I love you . I miss you . '' Tell me their story .
A teenager who has been raised as an assassin his whole life falls in love with his first target .
This has to be the first time in history that the insatiable thirst for human blood was actually a good thing ...
The War on Christmas is an actual war . Several governments from around the world are attempting to invade the North Pole and conquer Santa 's magical coal reserves .
You are conscious of multiple existences of yourself in tangent universes
You 're the Leader of your Country , which has just been invaded , and you need to tell the people .
Super hero origin story : Jack Cutter , aka `` Glacier ''
Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight .
You are the Devil ’ s new receptionist . Your first day is spent scheduling important meetings , appointments , events , filing paperwork , and taking messages . Tell us about the interesting things that went on today .
You suddenly die and question why . You meet death and he responds while laughing , '' Its just a prank . Chill . ''
An ultra-feminist American senator is thrust into a post-apocalyptic community and struggles to realize her dream of a gender equal society .
You are laughed at in class again for believing in humans .
Mankind has finally made it to a distant life bearing planet . only to find that it is haunted by the ghosts of a long dead civilization .
You have died , and in the afterlife , you are met with a baby version of yourself . It 's about to be born and is a second chance at your life . You have three minutes to give it as much advice as possible , which it will remember when it is relevant . What do you say ?
Tell a story of heroism and sacrifice from the point of view of a soldier in a war ( past , present , or future )
While sitting in class during a boring lecture you suddenly hear someone whispering in your ear . You turn around nervously and see that no one was there and none of the other students heard . But your teacher drops her notes and stares at you in shock .
A particular set of twins have the ability to communicate with each other telepathically . One of them dies , but the other can still hear his/her thoughts .
You find out that your parents have lied to you about your actual birthdate on your birthday .
Today is your 18th birthday . You have just been in a car accident . You are wheeled into the hospital where the doctor tells you that you are n't human , you are a/an _______ .
Regale us with the tale of Mediocrites , the Greek philosopher whose life and ethos gave us the word `` Mediocre . ''
- The first computer capable of feeling love explaining to it 's partner why it does n't anymore .
A barista in your local Starbucks is the God of the Old Testament . Describe how he rains wrath upon coworker and customer alike .
Write a story about broken furniture
No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet 's gravity well would need to BE 97 % fuel weight , and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept .
You missed your train on purpose
You 're a psychiatrist . One day , the entire justice league walks in .
After discovering that trees have conscious minds , you develop a device to speak to the oldest individual organism , the Great Basin Bristlecone .
The start of a zombie outbreak happens on April 1st .
Write about a psychotic killer who finally feels empathy for the first time
Make me afraid of the color pink .
A story of a witch/mage/wizard/etc from the perspective of their familiar/familiar spirit/animal guide .
A crow hops up to you with a 100 dollar bill in it 's mouth , and politely asks if you mind buying something for him .
You find yourself in a spaceship , with other 199 young aged 8-21 ( both male and female ) , with no memories or clues where the spaceship is going to .
Everyone is born with brown eyes . One week before you die , your eyes turn blue . Your eyes turned blue and you committed the crime of the century you 've spent your entire life planning . That was 8 days ago .
You live in a world were everyone is part of a hive mind , recently you have discovered your individual thoughts .
You married young and your SO died before his/her time , but you remarry . You die and go to heaven and they are both there .
Humans can hold on to their `` pent-up rage '' , letting it build up or gradually release it safely like most people . You however have been letting it build up for decades and just before you die , you decide to unleash it all on Death .
pick a superpower and tell me about what would actualy happen if you gained it right now
Make me hate a cup of coffee
You inadvertently nearly start World War III by asking for the Netflix password
- Write an excerpt from a book that was never written and make me wish that it was .
The year is 2086 . Self-driving cars have been around for 30 years , only switching to manual control if there is a emergency situation , where the machine can not calculate the outcome . You are in traffic when the control goes manual , but you ca n't immediately see the danger .
You wake up to the TV on . It 's all over the news , your city has been leveled by a nuclear attack . On the screen footage of the smoldering ruins . But you stare out of your window , and everything is unchanged .
The simplest explanation to why we could never find Genghis Khan 's tomb ... is that he never died .
Planetary storms are a rich source of ion energy . Ion mining is the most lucrative and the most dangerous job in the galaxy . Tell me the story of an ion miner .
You find out you are just a background character in someone else 's dream . Morning is coming soon but you want to keep existing so you must keep them from waking up ...
You 're not a hero . You never were . So why does this girl keep saying you are one ?
The Devil seeks asylum somewhere on Earth following an uprising in Hell
A small insect comes out of your finger .
You 've created the worlds first time machine . However , when you turn it on , something unexpected occurs .
Everyone has a watch with the time they have left until they die . You look down at your wrist and realize you are almost out of time .
You 're a normal guy . Hold an office job , have a loving family , a nice home , and a decent car . Only one thing sets you apart from the rest : you are also Death .
`` I 'm terribly sorry , but I 'm afraid the protagonist of this story is dead ! ''
As an April Fools prank , a popular Writing Prompts submitter gets banned from Reddit . Pitchforks are raised .
You fall for your best friend and your best friend falls off a cliff .
A small town lives in terror of a young girl who can read minds

At the age of 18 , everyone is required to take a general intelligence test . Failing the test is justification for death , or the remaining time of your life into intensive labor . Today is your 18th birthday .

I am emotionally dead , almost to a level of a sociopath . I want to feel again . Make me feel .

This is the prologue ( or the first chapter ) of the novel you 've always wanted to write .

A new strain of tree suddenly appears which grows to cover as much land as possible and will grow back if cut down . This strain first appears on farmlands ...

The year is 2315 and the Amish are living like its the 21st century .

You are an assassin sent back in time to kill one historic figure . Who causes the most damage ?

You are a vampire supernaturally bound by the ancient rule , `` you can not enter a home without being invited . '' One night , you ca n't walk out your front door .

In a parallel universe , conflicts are decided by a duel between the leader of the countries involved .

You are a time travelling psychologist who is sent on assignments to try and prevent people from doing something horrible in the future . Today you are sent just 7 days back in time to meet your assigned person , an 8 year old girl named Maura .

Lady Luck has fallen in love with you .

Your main character has 3 wishes . How do they use them .

You finally see your father . 4 long years , and still , the prison jumpsuit does nothing for him . You pick up the handset on your side of the cubicle . Today 's visit is different . Today he changes your world- forever .

You are the world 's greatest detective , able to solve any case with a single guess . You are ... One Hunch Man .

Its the finals of the hide and seek world championships , and you are against your toughest challenge yet . His name is wally , but many people know him as waldo- and he was the champion for the last 10 years . You are determined to win .

You have lived alone for years in a post apocalyptic land with no living thing to speak to . Show your descent into insanity in the form of a series of diary entries ... you still believe yourself to be completely sane .

Write the opening to a story set in the present day without any supernatural , superhuman or science-fiction elements

Run !

You ’ re part of a secret program to send a human to a neighboring solar system . Somehow you land on earth , no one remembers your mission and they treat you as the first life form to visit Earth .

A woman walks down a dusty road with a backpack . It contains the end of the world .

One year ago a teleporter experiment went awry , affecting all living humans . The location of every single person on the planet was randomly shuffled . How does the world look now ?

You have arrived in the place where lost pens go .

A man has a recurrent dream for years . In the dream he sees a park bench from behind , with a woman sitting on it . Today , his dream becomes reality .

A drug deal goes horribly wrong

You are a good person who has lived their life trying to do as little harm as possible . One day you wake with the exact time and date of your death burned into your mind . You will die in less than a week , however you instinctively know that for every life you take , you gain seven more days .

A world where people can store the adrenaline rush and aggressiveness of their anger for later use . Keep enough rage inside and you can , literally and figuratively , hulk out . Now , in your city there 's a person who 's never been visibly angry ...

You wake up in the morning and step outside to go to work , only to see something extremely unusual in the sky .

`` To this day , I ca n't stand the smell of eggs . '' Write me a story explaining why .

In a world where all humans are cannibals..

A man has the ability to smell death . The greater the stench , the closer a person is to dying . He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality . Every person he passes reeks of death .

`` Twerk '' has just been added to the dictionary , but there is no Miley Cyrus . Come up with an alternate origin .

Two people are driving to an intersection where they will meet . Both are contemplating suicide .

Donald Trump is a fictional satirical character ( a la Stephen Colbert ) . The dedicated actor playing him is getting increasingly desperate for someone to get the joke .

In a world where they are illegal you are called to prove that the pun was not intended

`` Name your desire , mortal ! '' `` Oh I do n't want anything I was just checking if the summoning portal worked . '' `` That 's not how it works , I ca n't go home until I trade a wish for your soul . '' `` Looks like we 're stuck together then . ''

Everyone has powers locked within them . Each power is different , and the longer it takes for a power to manifest , the greater it is . A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless .

The elevator opens . It 's full of something unexpected .

Every time you fall a sleep you wake up where you left off the night before . The dream only ends when you go to sleep in it . This has happened as long as you can remember and you 're having trouble remembering which life is real .

You 're a seven year old who pulls the blanket over their head when you feel something tap your arm .

As I sob quietly in the dark corner , the man with the three white wolves at his side says , `` What does it matter , if we got the job done ? ''

A small shop opens up in your town that bottles and sells dreams . For a small price you can guarantee what you 'll see when you close your eyes that night , or record and donate a dream of your own to be sold .

At age of 25 , everyone enters a lottery to determine who will become immortal . Your SO makes it and you do n't .

Give this sentence a happy ending - A man took of his wedding band and placed it on the bar top , looked at it for a while , then left .

Pick one person in your life ( does n't have to be somebody important ) and write about them and an interaction with them , but dramatize them like they 're in a John Green novel .

Being an adult is your day job . You just got fired .

The remnants of a letter are found , musty with age . Most of it has been destroyed , leaving behind only the words , `` I love you . I miss you . '' Tell me their story .

A teenager who has been raised as an assassin his whole life falls in love with his first target .

This has to be the first time in history that the insatiable thirst for human blood was actually a good thing ...

The War on Christmas is an actual war . Several governments from around the world are attempting to invade the North Pole and conquer Santa 's magical coal reserves .

You are conscious of multiple existences of yourself in tangent universes

You 're the Leader of your Country , which has just been invaded , and you need to tell the people .

Super hero origin story : Jack Cutter , aka `` Glacier ''

Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight .

You are the Devil ’ s new receptionist . Your first day is spent scheduling important meetings , appointments , events , filing paperwork , and taking messages . Tell us about the interesting things that went on today .

You suddenly die and question why . You meet death and he responds while laughing , '' Its just a prank . Chill . ''

An ultra-feminist American senator is thrust into a post-apocalyptic community and struggles to realize her dream of a gender equal society .

You are laughed at in class again for believing in humans .

Mankind has finally made it to a distant life bearing planet . only to find that it is haunted by the ghosts of a long dead civilization .

You have died , and in the afterlife , you are met with a baby version of yourself . It 's about to be born and is a second chance at your life . You have three minutes to give it as much advice as possible , which it will remember when it is relevant . What do you say ?

Tell a story of heroism and sacrifice from the point of view of a soldier in a war ( past , present , or future )

While sitting in class during a boring lecture you suddenly hear someone whispering in your ear . You turn around nervously and see that no one was there and none of the other students heard . But your teacher drops her notes and stares at you in shock .

A particular set of twins have the ability to communicate with each other telepathically . One of them dies , but the other can still hear his/her thoughts .

You find out that your parents have lied to you about your actual birthdate on your birthday .

Today is your 18th birthday . You have just been in a car accident . You are wheeled into the hospital where the doctor tells you that you are n't human , you are a/an _______ .

Regale us with the tale of Mediocrites , the Greek philosopher whose life and ethos gave us the word `` Mediocre . ''

- The first computer capable of feeling love explaining to it 's partner why it does n't anymore .

A barista in your local Starbucks is the God of the Old Testament . Describe how he rains wrath upon coworker and customer alike .

Write a story about broken furniture

No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet 's gravity well would need to BE 97 % fuel weight , and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept .

You missed your train on purpose

You 're a psychiatrist . One day , the entire justice league walks in .

After discovering that trees have conscious minds , you develop a device to speak to the oldest individual organism , the Great Basin Bristlecone .

The start of a zombie outbreak happens on April 1st .

Write about a psychotic killer who finally feels empathy for the first time

Make me afraid of the color pink .

A story of a witch/mage/wizard/etc from the perspective of their familiar/familiar spirit/animal guide .

A crow hops up to you with a 100 dollar bill in it 's mouth , and politely asks if you mind buying something for him .

You find yourself in a spaceship , with other 199 young aged 8-21 ( both male and female ) , with no memories or clues where the spaceship is going to .

Everyone is born with brown eyes . One week before you die , your eyes turn blue . Your eyes turned blue and you committed the crime of the century you 've spent your entire life planning . That was 8 days ago .

You live in a world were everyone is part of a hive mind , recently you have discovered your individual thoughts .

You married young and your SO died before his/her time , but you remarry . You die and go to heaven and they are both there .

Humans can hold on to their `` pent-up rage '' , letting it build up or gradually release it safely like most people . You however have been letting it build up for decades and just before you die , you decide to unleash it all on Death .

pick a superpower and tell me about what would actualy happen if you gained it right now

Make me hate a cup of coffee

You inadvertently nearly start World War III by asking for the Netflix password

- Write an excerpt from a book that was never written and make me wish that it was .

The year is 2086 . Self-driving cars have been around for 30 years , only switching to manual control if there is a emergency situation , where the machine can not calculate the outcome . You are in traffic when the control goes manual , but you ca n't immediately see the danger .

You wake up to the TV on . It 's all over the news , your city has been leveled by a nuclear attack . On the screen footage of the smoldering ruins . But you stare out of your window , and everything is unchanged .

The simplest explanation to why we could never find Genghis Khan 's tomb ... is that he never died .

Planetary storms are a rich source of ion energy . Ion mining is the most lucrative and the most dangerous job in the galaxy . Tell me the story of an ion miner .

You find out you are just a background character in someone else 's dream . Morning is coming soon but you want to keep existing so you must keep them from waking up ...

You 're not a hero . You never were . So why does this girl keep saying you are one ?

The Devil seeks asylum somewhere on Earth following an uprising in Hell

A small insect comes out of your finger .

You 've created the worlds first time machine . However , when you turn it on , something unexpected occurs .

Everyone has a watch with the time they have left until they die . You look down at your wrist and realize you are almost out of time .

You 're a normal guy . Hold an office job , have a loving family , a nice home , and a decent car . Only one thing sets you apart from the rest : you are also Death .

`` I 'm terribly sorry , but I 'm afraid the protagonist of this story is dead ! ''

As an April Fools prank , a popular Writing Prompts submitter gets banned from Reddit . Pitchforks are raised .

You fall for your best friend and your best friend falls off a cliff .

A small town lives in terror of a young girl who can read minds