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[OT] 3 Writing Tips You Can Steal From Animators
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[OT] 3 Writing Tips You Can Steal From Animators
I do number 3 a bit too much and don't regulate it correctly. I killed off my hero a few times because I put him into a situation which just eventually lead organically to their death.
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[OT] 3 Writing Tips You Can Steal From Animators
This seems like a good place to plug our writing tips section of the [wiki](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/wiki/writer_tips)!
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[OT] 3 Writing Tips You Can Steal From Animators
"Act out your scenes." I do this quite a bit! I thought I was just quirky though!
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[PM] You know what comes next! Prompt me!
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Winter's falling around the city, and one girl huddles alone in a deserted library
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[PM] You know what comes next! Prompt me!
Write a humorous story involving socks, mortgage fraud, crab cakes, a Bengal tiger, and an Egyptian named Benny.
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[PM] You know what comes next! Prompt me!
You wake up to realise you've become a unit in an RTS game. It's horrible.
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[PM] You know what comes next! Prompt me!
Your hair is trying to kill you so it doesn't have to be cut again
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[PM] You know what comes next! Prompt me!
Future you has gone back in time to stop Past you from going into the Future and Taking Present you out.
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A few hundred years in the future, mankind has spread to inhabit nearby planets (and possibly other solar systems?). Write about a zombie outbreak in this society. It can be a single survivors view or an overall history or whatever strikes your fancy. Make it gritty!
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[PM] You know what comes next! Prompt me!
I want a drakkar noir(dark and gritty) story about a 2nd grader trying to figure out who stole the cookies from the cookie jar
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Write a cyberpunk story about evolution that borrows tropes from tragedy. Include the idea of the true self, eagerness, and the sensation of doughiness. Also include an intimidating, unforgiving mid-forties woman with a ridiculous accent.
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[PM] Give me Fantasy
An old man teaches a group of children about a great hero. They have no idea he was there. Bonus points if he is not human, or even near-human.
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[PM] Give me Fantasy
A stranger inexplicably appears in a city under siege. He offers rescue, but the price he asks is unusual.
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[PM] Give me Fantasy
an inhabitant of the floating continent falls to earth. how are they treated? do they get back? how?
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[PM] Give me Fantasy
A secret door is discovered. Tell me a story about kindness.
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[PM] Give me Fantasy
After being killed, a person's soul escapes into their shadow. Now sentient and free to move about, what happens next?
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A dwarven axe smith, the seventeenth in a line of historic axe smiths and his parents' first born child, has decided to instead become a hatchet smith. Explain the situation as your best human friend, consoling you the author/dwarf through your grief and the scorn of your siblings at your reckless abandonment of tradit...
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The Dwarfs have made you a masterwork weapon, made from some unusual materials. Alloy made from Breath of the Sea and Song of the Grass, Bound by Love of a Betrayer. Locked with a Riddle never Told. Forged by Flames of Souls and Tempered in Blood of a Frost Giant. But is it any good?
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[PM] Give me Fantasy
You're all caught up! Have another. Write a story about discontent featuring a troubled mid-fifties woman with a tail who is trying to enumerate something.
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The Elvish King is moved to tears by a Goblin poet, the first and most likely last of his kind. The rest of the Royal Court doesn't understand the 'beauty' of this creatures 'art'.
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An adorable baby dragon followed you home, and now it's causing all sorts of trouble.
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http://www.123inspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/surreal-self-portraits-by-rachel-baran-1.jpg What happened here? What happened to her? Was it divine punishment? Wrong place at the wrong time? Give her a story.
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[PM] Give me Fantasy
An elf, a human, and a gnome are playing cards at a tavern. The elf suspects that the gnome is cheating.
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[WP] The Avatar is taken to court by an angry cabbage merchant [ATLA]
That's [EU]
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[WP] The Avatar is taken to court by an angry cabbage merchant [ATLA]
someone link /r/tla to this
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[WP] The Avatar is taken to court by an angry cabbage merchant [ATLA]
The murmurs were loud and numerous as the Avatar walked in, this little boy was the hero who had defeated the mad king of the fire nation and brought peace to the world? The plaintiff looked at him with mild disgust as the airbender strolled up to his assigned desk, shouldered by his 2 legal councilors, a woman dressed...
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[EU] Tell us the story of one of the "many bothan spies died to bring us this information"
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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[WP] A bank robber holds his last hostage at gunpoint as cops surround him. The hostage is his only son.
Hello, mister policeman sir. My name is Thomas and I'm four years old. My mother? Oh, I don't really remember her much. My dad says she was a really bad person. Like really, really bad. I have this comic my father bought me for my birthday and it has bad people in it too. There's this scary black monster with huge tee...
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[WP] A bank robber holds his last hostage at gunpoint as cops surround him. The hostage is his only son.
"Drop your weapon and get on the ground!" the sergeant barked over the open door of his patrol car. His tone had a definite note of authority to it, but it was also empty of any real conviction. Nobody ever dropped the gun, and he knew it. "This wasn't supposed to happen," Felix murmured, the grip of his glock now c...
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[WP] A bank robber holds his last hostage at gunpoint as cops surround him. The hostage is his only son.
The robber grabbed the man in the grey shirt by the shoulder and pushed him to the ground. Gun pointed toward the face, the standard "Hands up, knees on the ground" line he had already said to seventy people that day. He would be brave. He would not be afraid to shoot. He had done it in the past, and he could do it now...
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[IP] Hallowed Sentinel
Long before Ardas was built, the Sentinel stood watch. A reminder of old magics; a testament to the old gods that have long since left this place, it has never moved. Not until the Waking War. It had just been a petty squabble over land. Regent Thallis of Korst believed that Ardas' influence had encroached its nearby ...
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[IP] Hallowed Sentinel
From the dirty animal hide tents of the nomads to the gleaming stone of the ancient Empire, the Hallowed Sentinel had always stood guard. His pale purple glow was a ward against the darkness of the outside. From the beginning, his stone cold visage beheld the construction of a society around him. The very first tribal ...
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[IP] Hallowed Sentinel
Idalien stood on the spire of rock, craning his neck. Far above, the eyes of the stone Sentinel kept blind watch over the approach to the palace. But it wouldn't be blind much longer. Not if the wizard could do as he promised. Idalien was a Captain of the Royal Guard, and had little knowledge of, or interaction wit...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
At the third chime of the church bells, he appeared. The same creased work shirt and the same messenger bag coffee stained at the bottom edge. His shadow flitted across the vandalized pillars of the walkway as he hobbled to work. I watched him. I sat across him many unrecognizable nights from his booth in the same ...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
We sat in our favorite bar and had had maybe one too much of these fancy craft beers. "So that's the deal? You kiss me, and I become immortal?" "Basically. On the cheek. Done it before." "You do realize it sounds silly." "Sure do." "Can't hurt to try, though." "Sure thing." "No homo, right?" "Please. I've had t...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
Everyone who's anyone has heard the rumours. The Fountain of Youth, they call it. Hidden inside an unforgiving volcano on an Antarctic island way, way out in the Southern Ocean. Deception Island is a popular tourist destination, and a safe harbour for those who find themselves overwhelmed by the storms that bluster ar...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
Wilhelm rested his head on the guard rail, watching the coffee shop girl a level down below closely as she smiled and poured another customer his coffee. "Aren't you a little bit too old to creep on girls?" A voice behind me asked. He recognized Jessica. "The one with the blonde hair, on the left." he replied without...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
"Harold, I'm bored." "Would you kindly shut the hell up." The hate flew from his mouth without a seconds hesitation. The statement required no thought. It was merely reaction from centuries of use. And it was good that it was, for at this moment Tyronne's queen threatened his bishop and looked certain to steal victor...
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The metal rooftop glistened against the moonlight as the ashen rain bounced off the steel siding towards the ground. As he turned to face the younger ones he couldn't help but feel guilty for what he had done. "why have you done this to us?" the youngest girl, Becky said. Her sandy blond hair beginning to get caught ...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
I've seen way too many of these days. Hell, I have seen all of the days. Well, at least any day that people want to remember. I've seen great countries rise and fall amidst wars fought with sticks, then bombs, then sticks again. Which I enjoy, because stick wars are honestly my favourite. They get so pointy. I've see...
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The walls, the lights, tables, patrons, even the ambient sound being piped through huge, unseen sound system was permeated by a sense of sterility. Conversation permeated the air, a droning background noise punctuated by the not so occasional clink of glass. Two figures sat at a table, unnoticeable by the majority an...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
Every year seems to be but a breath of of eternity as I aimlessly walk this rock, exploring the events of history as paradigms shift and flow in front of me. This eternal life that was given led me to the brink many times, never capable of embracing loved ones of millenniums gone by. Though able to give the kiss of imm...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
Snowy. When I say snowy, I mean God took his snow-shovel and jammed it into the side of Mt.Everest, brought it high and then waved it wildly, scattering snow and hail throughout the atmosphere. As if that weren't enough, God went back to get some more from Antarctica. I had my own little mountain of snow growing on m...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
A window splattered with blood and a carpet soaked in it was all that remained of the so called "immortal man". He has a note clutched in his hand. Crumpled piece of paper, seemingly meaningless, its a suicide note. It reads: "No one need bear my curse, not even me". The only immortal man on earth, dead at the age of 5...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
They'd all been a mistake. Each and every one. For the past thousand years, Ian had been combating the loneliness by bringing others into the fold, trying to find some semblance of connection that would last over time, an alternative to making friends, only to see them age, whither, and die. He'd woken up one day, comp...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
I'd like to point out that this is basically Norse mythology. Odin collects the honourable dead in Walhalla were they will serve as his army during the end of days. Carry on.
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
I’d known Jenny as a little girl, all pigtails and overalls and dimples. I would look after her after school and on weekends, when her mother had to work. That ended when she hit middle school but she was a genuinely thoughtful child and I a lonely man, recently retired, recently widowed. She would bring me cookies, or...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
George had lived a long time and still barely understood what he termed the 'Pixar Burst': his lizard brain's weird, fickle impulse to spin the taps of sentiment and crush any given moment between vice-pads of bittersweet empathy. It skittered and flashed according to no emotional calculus he could chart, this pressure...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
I do not know fear, not anymore, not after the blade took me through the eye and out the back. I knew fear in that moment. It tasted wet like the blood that ran down my face and into my mouth. And it was heavy, a compress against my chest, and I was gone. Gone from both myself and life and the fear, for then I woke and...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
The man let out a short and sharp cry of pain and fell to his knees as the mugger bolted back into the alley. “Jason!” the other man dropped down and caught his friend before he face planted. “No, no, no…” he repeated as he slowly laid the injured man on his back. “Gabriel…” he managed to speak, though difficult. “I’...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
Even in the low light, amidst flashing sequins and the regalia of the rich and powerful in full display, that auburn hair color always caught Gerry's eye. The dress seemed to flirt with her body, slopes and shapes implied but not revealed. Her fingers moved with the certainty of an artisan, but the grace of a noble-lad...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
*We are One. We are The Link.* When the Master first began gathering his flock, none of us questioned. Life eternal. No death, no illness, no injury, no aging, no hunger....Paradise. The Master took such care in choosing his flock as well; only the brightest and most creative. Philosophers, mathematicians, artists, mu...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
They only referred to him as He. He alone could grant you the power to see the universe, to bestow upon you the greatest gift: immortality. Men, women, and children lined up for miles to befriend Him, hoping to obtain this gift. They would fight for years over who would be the next one to visit Him, their minds clouded...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
They come, they seek, they find it, only to wish they never did any of those three things. An insatiable hunger, an unfulfilled yearning, the knowledge at the back of the head always there, always reminding time is limited to self, death is just a right turn away. This is what drives us. Let them arrive. They will be i...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
There once was a man. He was a slim man, with a round face covered by brown moppish hair. He sat next to me at the bar, with the familiar lonely slump that this type of bar seems to collect. I bought us each a round. We drank. We talked. He showed up on my doorstep the next day. And the next. And the next. Always in ti...
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[WP] An immortal man has the ability to bestow immortality - collecting friends for the end of the universe.
The Olympians. They appeared many, many ages ago. We don’t know when they appeared, or when they started influencing things. However, we noticed it when a woman named Cetus appeared. She amassed great power and fortune and was even able to take over a large geographic location. She named her country Thera. It was too ...
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Wearable Computing
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
Man, do you know how hard this is? "I've got a great idea for this! Oh wait, it's a real creation myth already." How bout, a planet with two massive but adjacent continents where those were separated between heaven and hell are reborn to their respective people, but with no memory of their past life. The planet orbit...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
A lone man stood in a field, his face turned up to the night sky. "Grandad, what are you doing?" A small voice asked from beside him. He bent down until he was level with his granddaughter's face. "I'm looking at the past, my love, little moments of history." "I want to look at the past," the little girl demanded, ...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
"Do you know who rules this kingdom?" "Yes grandpapa, the Thunder Gods." Shina's eyes were wide as she engaged in conversation with her grandfather. Being one so young she was always fascinated by the history and myths of the land she lived in. Luckily her grandpapa was a man who could always answer her questions. As ...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
Here's a copy/paste of something I wrote in a similar prompt a few days ago. And God said, "I shall delegate the responsibilities of ruling this world to others" and it was so. And He created Adam and Eve to watch over the Earth. And the Lord left Them to Their own devices as He was tired and had just worked for six s...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
In the beginning, there was only the void. Empty space in which nothing existed, a total stillstand, devoid of motion and light. Then, out of nothing, a spark ignited. This spark was the first concept, the first being ever to exist inside the void. This was Shel'tara, the lightbringer, the golden deer, the concept of l...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
“This is the story of the World’s Creation” – the old man shouted as the kids gathered around the large fire. The Story Teller’s job is quite simple. He tells stories (duh). You all might be wondering “What is the point of this Story Teller?”. To be honest, the Story Teller is probably the most important job of the Le...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
In the darkness of the void there existed two twin beings, Oran, the god of chaos, and Eran, the god of creation. Oran was simply a swirling mass, however great and beautiful to the eye. He was faceless yet could take any form. Eran was like a man with the head of a golden stag, running through the void in the absence ...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
This is my first attempt at a writing prompt, but I was intrigued because I love the Silmarillion, and have always love creation myths ever since I was a child. That being said, here goes nothing! In the beginning, there was the Sand. The Sand stretched from one edge of eternity to the the other, eternally flat and s...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
With alarms blaring lights flashing, Zworb runs from his room to the bridge. His ship had traveled the last 15k light years with no issues. But something was clearly going wrong now. Zworb hits the acknowledge alert button and the sirens cease their screams. Zonk, his co-polit comes rushing in squinting from the fl...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
##"The Storywriting Girl" Once upon a time, there was an imaginative little girl. She liked to spend her days dreaming of everything from ordinary conversations to valiant fights against dragons. She dreamed of noble knights saving kingdoms from monstrous invaders; of bold scientists blasting off into space to discove...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
In the end there was only process and paperwork. These things had been created by people who had attempted to unify the opposites of the universe. It was a tradition that had been repeated for ages. People would use the process to create life, then the paperwork would be used to give it meaning. These ways were not...
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[WP] - Give me a creation myth.
-054 (Part 1) "Grandpa, how did everything start. Tell me about the beginning." The child sat with open, trusting eyes and waited for his wizend grandfather to begin the tale. Grandpa set aside his morning paper and sipped his coffee, settled himself in comfortably and thought for a moment. "We'll start our beginn...
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Tell me a story about the clash between affluence and imagination, featuring a nomadic retired CEO. Include a corrupt local government, an artificial intelligence, and the sensation of sandiness.
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Two dogs have a conversation about what humans find attractive in a mate.
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Someone comes to the realization that he/she is asexual.
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After 250 year of construction, the Great Hyperspace Gate is complete. tenths of thousands of ships will use it everyday. Trade will be bountiful and travel will be common in the galaxy. It does not work, someone forgot a screw.
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Begin and end a story with the lines "I've got a Watch" and include the following elements; Espionage First Class Seating A Monkey and a bowl of Lemons. Everything else is up to you.
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[WP] Kim Jong Un is actually a good guy who cares about his people. He is trying to establish Democracy in DRPK but the military in charge will kill him if they find out. Dennis Rodman is his only confidant.
"What's wrong, Kim? You're using a Kings Indian defense, when you know I wrote a thesis on exploiting that with the Budapest Gambit just last week?" "Sorry, Worm...Yeah, mate in 27 moves, I see it now. Good game." "Come on, man, you're not getting off that easy. What's on your mind?" "It's this General Hwan, he's re...
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Short Story Structure - Voice and Style Defined
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
You have made a promise, a promise that has defined who you are and what you stand for, for as long as you can remember. You just broke it.
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
In a world where you have the name of your soulmate written on your dominant hand from birth and it turns gold when you meet, two people meet and their names and the colours they go say they are destined to be together for life. They hate each other. They're not even friends.
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
"What happens to those who go astray if not death?"
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
You wake up naked, carrying a bottle of expensive wine, on a ferris wheel in Hoboken, NJ. The last thing you remember was going to church on Sunday, it's now Friday.
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
You're stranded in the Siberian wasteland with a talking polar bear
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
A boy finds himself caught between Chaos and Order.
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
"Some cause happiness where ever they go. Others whenever they go."
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
Write a story about a submarine captain who is also the only person on board, who befriends the creature from the black lagoon.
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[PM] I will write at least 250 words for every prompt that gets posted before 12:00 AM EST, 2/18/2014. That gives you guys 12 hours!
A candidate's political campaign goes horribly wrong, yet s/he ends up being very popular for the blunders.
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