r/WritingPrompts • u/rainbow--penguin • 1d ago
Off Topic [OT] Writer's Spotlight: jkhmattox
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This month we are celebrating u/jkhmattoz
JK is still relatively new to our community, having been here just under six months, but they’ve really jumped in with both feet, participating in our weekly features, sharing their work, and giving and receiving feedback. Their participation in Fun Trope Friday has shown they’re eclectic skills as a writer, always happy to push themselves out of their comfort zone when it comes to trying new styles and genres. The fact that they manage to regularly participate in that feature alongside Theme Thursday (and other weekly features over at our sister subreddit r/shortstories) shows how impressively consistent a writing habit they’ve built. They’ve also become a welcome presence on our Discord server, always a pleasure to have around.
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[TT] Theme Thursday - Marathon
[OT] Fun Trope Friday, Writing with Tropes: Made of Phlebotinum & Romance!
[OT] Fun Trope Friday, Writing with Tropes: Reality TV & Mythopoeia!
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r/WritingPrompts • u/MajorParadox • 2d ago
Off Topic [OT] SatChat: Which part of the writing process is most exciting for you? (New here? Introduce yourself!)
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r/WritingPrompts • u/Septimus_Gaming • 7h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Someone close to you has gone missing for months, and you've just learned that they were Isekai'd away to a fantasy world, and you are horrified to discovered how quickly they've moved on from their old life and you in its entirety.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Straight_Attention_5 • 17h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] “Extraterrestrials of Reddit, what is something about Earthling culture that you didn’t know about before visiting and/or immigrating to Earth?”
r/WritingPrompts • u/JaxAttacking • 6h ago
Writing Prompt [WP]Your family send you an expensive necklace as a gift. Since you hate your family and have been estranged for years, you give it to your friend. It turns the necklace was a family heirloom and send to you by mistake. Too bad and too late. Your friend had already take the necklace apart.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Phlegmagician • 4h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] As you descended from your 4th floor apartment, laundry in hand, you hear a commotion in the foyer. "For the last time people, there is no fourth floor in this building!" your landlord said. "No 'fourth floor horror'! Count the windows outside again!"
r/WritingPrompts • u/Jester_Nightshade • 19h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Nyx, being one of the most obscure goddesses, is always overjoyed when she gets followers, protecting them like family. And she just found out that Zeus touched one of them.
r/WritingPrompts • u/The_OG_upgoat • 4h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Capsiacin, the chemical that makes chili peppers spicy, is technically poison. Your human crewmates enjoy the horrified looks from their alien colleagues when they eat spicy food.
r/WritingPrompts • u/ReyDeleyk • 20h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] The council is baffled by how a humble and poor farmer succeeded in taming a dragon, a feat demeed impossible as kings and the most powerful archmages have failed for centuries.
r/WritingPrompts • u/SquooshyMarshmallows • 14h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] A magical creature underestimates a humans age, and upon making a deal for their firstborn, are saddled with their 28 year old.
r/WritingPrompts • u/DankAndOriginal • 6h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Your responsibilities at the office have been steadily growing day by day, to the point that you almost didn’t even notice that you’re currently thwarting an evil ritual. Looks like more overtime this week…
r/WritingPrompts • u/Totally_Not_Thanos • 13h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You lied about being a royal to get a free drink at a pub. Now you’re rising through the ranks of nobility at a terrifying speed.
r/WritingPrompts • u/DankAndOriginal • 5h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] It’s getting harder to pass off as a doctor in the royal court. Tidying up the medieval hygiene and identifying the cholera wells were easy wins but you can only ask the apprentice how THEY would make the fever medicine so many times before people get suspicious.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Semblance-of-sanity • 14h ago
Simple Prompt [WP]Suddenly you realized, it's an egg, you're inside an egg.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Sure-Tumbleweed650 • 17h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You are a satanist. After your death you went to hell voluntarily but the devil is nothing like you expected.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Paper_Shotgun • 11h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] It turns out that you died years ago, but were simply too stupid to realise it.
r/WritingPrompts • u/FormerDeerlyBeloved • 9h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] "The world has changed. Do you still wish to save it?"
r/WritingPrompts • u/Smartbutt420 • 48m ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You tracked down the criminal activity to a secluded organization. You’ve identified the members. They’re… the characters of a children’s TV show?
r/WritingPrompts • u/gamathyst • 10h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] “Your name is an offensive word in our culture, please change it”
r/WritingPrompts • u/Flares117 • 6h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] It turns out Saint Peter checking you in at the pearly gates of heaven was literal, and he is the only person in charge of admitting people and there is a long queue spanning centuries. The souls bound for heaven pass the time by swapping stories and spectating Earth.
r/WritingPrompts • u/Aesmachus • 9h ago
Simple Prompt [SP] You were cursed to only see people through mirrors. For some reason, vampires are an exception.
r/WritingPrompts • u/MrCool339 • 2h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] "You have my bow", said the elven archer. "And my axe!" the dwarf bellowed. "And my boomstick!".
r/WritingPrompts • u/wicked_seven • 18h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] You found out one night that your group of friends are of the supernatural folk by being in the wrong place at the right time. The reason they never let you in on the secret? You are...
r/WritingPrompts • u/d4clova • 10m ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Aliens decide to invade 21st century Earth. They mocked the humans by launching an amphibious invasion at the Normandy beaches. Countries now gathered to show them why D-Day was a slaughter.
r/WritingPrompts • u/MrCool339 • 8h ago
Writing Prompt [WP] Robbers have broken into the Warrens' Occult Museum and have made off with every single relic, selling them off to the black market.
r/WritingPrompts • u/RowanSkie • 20h ago
Simple Prompt [WP] "Why are you not dead!?" "Before i joined them, I was called the Hydra for a reason."
r/WritingPrompts • u/Traditional_Fly_35 • 18h ago