r/WritingPrompts • u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) • Aug 12 '23
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u/kickapoo_loo Aug 15 '23
Mine was only just this one, https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/15aqfyc/wp_a_woman_unwillingly_turned_into_a_werewolf_by/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
im always fascinated by people's responses and what they come up with and where it goes, I love werewolves and other were-creatures and how they're portrayed, and will definitely come up with more prompts when I can!
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u/MajorParadox Aug 15 '23
I like how there are two sides to the transformation too!
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u/kickapoo_loo Aug 15 '23
I like adding in dichotomies and how the person handles those types of situations, and they do or don't do, and even going against what they're supposed to typically do
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u/svenson_26 Aug 14 '23
I like to really explore the idea of different superpowers and supernatural situations, and come up with monkeys-paw ways that something seemingly good could have negative consequences. I was thinking of the potential drawbacks to immortality. The classic drawback is outliving all your loved ones and outliving the human race entirely, but I wanted to think of others. I've explored in other prompts, the idea of a person in an invulnerable body getting trapped forever buried alive or drowning. But that doesn't work if you have re-spawn immortality. So what could be a drawback of respawning? And that led me to this prompt. I really like the concept, and I had some great responses.
I imagine that worse than outliving your loved ones would be being transported to another world completely unlike anything you know an impossibly large distance away, and not having any way to get back or knowing their fate. The only thing you know is that they are in danger.
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u/Tomorrow_Is_Today1 Aug 14 '23
I don’t know that I have a favorite in particular. Most of the prompts we post are simple, vague, only one sentence, and a lot of them are dialogue. I try to post the kind of prompt that I like writing for, though it isn’t super popular in the sub overall.
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u/MajorParadox Aug 14 '23
Dialogue prompts can be fun! It's a neat challenge to try and build a story around what was said.
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u/JasdanVM Aug 14 '23
Help, I can't post a prompt, because I need to add tags to the post, but I can't add tags to a post, it says they aren't available here!
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u/MajorParadox Aug 14 '23
Tags are different than flairs. If you look at every other post, their titles start with something like [WP], or in the case of this one, [OT]. Every prompt title needs to start with one of those. Here is the list of acceptable tags: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/wiki/how_to_tag_prompts
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u/dragonadamant Aug 14 '23
My favorite prompt I ever submitted was one where I wanted to turn a typically violent genre into a meditation on education and humanism. The responses, carrying on that desire for a better society while remaining in "genre character," made my heart so happy.
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u/ScrappyOwl Aug 14 '23
I love seeing the creativity of people and how they may spin a print, as such I’ve posted quite a few myself, but none have inspired such good writing as this one
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u/Redikai Aug 13 '23
I've only been posting for a little while but my favorite prompt is probably You are a detective who has debunked countless "supernatural" cold cases. One day, while reviewing your old cases, you start to notice that your memories don't quite line up with the supposedly "mundane" evidence. even though no one responded to it. I just think it's a neat concept.
My second favorite has got to be "What part of 'immune to mortal weapons' made you think a nuke would work?" just because it got a decent number of interesting responses. It's fun to see how some people take the prompt at face value while others twist it in way both predictable and very much suprising.
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u/a_burdie_from_hell Aug 13 '23 edited Aug 13 '23
This one: It's about an oblivious guy who finds an eldrich cat, and meets a few strange cultists. I liked it because I really like Lovecraft, and had been wanting to play around with a humorous take on cults.
And then this one because I'm very proud of how well I wrote the character interaction. The whole reason I started writing here was because I use to be really bad at character interactions, and I feel like this one is where I started feeling more competent in it. It's like, a light in my head turned on and now I get it.
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u/MajorParadox Aug 13 '23
Those are some good ones, but I was actually asking about prompts you submitted, not ones you wrote for. Thanks for sharing, though!
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u/a_burdie_from_hell Aug 13 '23
Whoops! I saw this before the morning coffee kicked in!
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u/xwhy Aug 12 '23
Good afternoon. I'm on my phone, so bear with me. I'll update this when I get home yo my PC
I have many prompts I'm proud of, and most are readable at r/xwhy (comments, criticism welcome, there or here.)
I have a file at home with all the responses and URLs to the posts. Some of them I've expanded or reworked, and a few never made it to reddit. I didn't know about the PI tag then
Short (couple hundred words) was a story where a guy meets his gf's parents but they're mythological creatures. It had a joke ending.
Longer is a story about a devil keeping an angel. My story deviated from the prompt greatly. I think it was supposed to be he kept her as a wife and it should've been more 50s/60s sitcom. I went more nursing a wounded canary back to health. My friends had me expand that one. It was one flash story that couldn't be so open ended. They wanted an end.
I like a lot of demon/devil prompts with or without angels. And vice versa.
Also. I have a few supers stories in my collection of responses even though none are in my first collection of flash fiction.
Finally, a few stories ended up on AO3 because I couldn't do anything with EU responses. Those include a fun Twilight zone piece, some Clark Weasley stories, and the Injustice League meets Doofenshmirtz.
Fun times.
And now I need to make more
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u/MajorParadox Aug 12 '23
Oh, I meant prompts submitted, not prompt responses. But those are some great ones you wrote for, anyway!
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u/xwhy Aug 12 '23
I found this from nearly a year ago. Over 2000 upvotes and a lot of comments. Some people insisted on using Dante’s template for the levels of Hell when the prompt contradicted it.
And now I see a multiple part story that I hadn’t seen before because it was added 2 weeks later, and I don’t remember getting notified
https://reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/s/TyMFC5nvmv
A demon appears to escort you to the 2nd level of Hell. You don’t want to go but he tells you that you’ve been living all this time in the 3rd level.
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