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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
Sleeping beauty awakes to a post-apocalypse, and Jar Jar Binks, New to the Disney universe, stares back into her eyes.
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
I admire your will for a challenge.So,help me solve a dilemma. "A lost heart with too many scars wonders if it can love ever again."
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
A man's last day on Earth, before leaving to become the first ever to explore space beyond our solar system. It is not a journey that has a return trip.
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
Write about a literal Gender War, where Males are pitted against Females after technology allows male-male and female-female breeding.
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
A young girl in a red coat, holding a red balloon, standing outside of [St. Cecilia's Church and Convent (New York City)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St-cecilia-church-nyc.jpg) loses her balloon. There is a low gusty wind, and she follows the balloon in an attempt to retrieve it. (link to picture)
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
The very first batch of humans on the Mars One mission have just arrived on Mars. Everything seems to be going according to plan except for one major unexpected surprise nobody saw coming.
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
A toy maker attends the funeral of a child that choked on a toy he designed.
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
The Halfling beats the Half-Orc in arm-wrestle, effectively ruining his life.
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[PM] In the mood to brood. Will write no matter what and respond to every prompt.
"the fire kept burning, it always does"
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[WP] A mother is cursed by visions of her newborn child's future as a demented killer of hundreds. What she chooses to do is for you to decide.
Hands. Gnarled grasping bones draped in flesh reached out towards you. They have always been so old. Never without the liver spots and wrinkles, but not always so still. Mother had always been delusional, but the words she rasped before her death still hung in the air with truthful impact. *The antichrist has risen i...
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[WP] A mother is cursed by visions of her newborn child's future as a demented killer of hundreds. What she chooses to do is for you to decide.
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[WP] A mother is cursed by visions of her newborn child's future as a demented killer of hundreds. What she chooses to do is for you to decide.
It started innocently enough with just one dream. The next morning over brunch Jeremy had laughed at her as she described the nightmare, reminding her that the pregnancy books had mentioned expectant mothers often had strange dreams increasing in the second trimester. Even though the dream didn’t feel like the others...
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[WP] A mother is cursed by visions of her newborn child's future as a demented killer of hundreds. What she chooses to do is for you to decide.
I am really not sure about this. First attempt to write something in a long time and I was mostly winging it the whole way through. "Mommy, it's light outside!" Anna begins to move under the blankets, knowing that it is time to get up, because Jason is up. She hates this part of the day, regardless of whatever hap...
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[OT] Short story lovers of Reddit, we have a new type of competition coming, The Writer's Arena. Please check out a dry run we did a few weeks ago. We're hoping to go live next week. (xpost by request from /r/shortstories)
Huh. Do I get to submit a story? I'll play anyway, even at home. Thanks for this, it seems fun.
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[OT] Short story lovers of Reddit, we have a new type of competition coming, The Writer's Arena. Please check out a dry run we did a few weeks ago. We're hoping to go live next week. (xpost by request from /r/shortstories)
There is a lot of work going on to get the site ready. We have new art on the way, and we're tooling around with the layout. Constructive criticism is always welcome.
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[OT] Short story lovers of Reddit, we have a new type of competition coming, The Writer's Arena. Please check out a dry run we did a few weeks ago. We're hoping to go live next week. (xpost by request from /r/shortstories)
Thanks for x-posting here! :)
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You are the lesser-known fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, Plague. The Day of Reckoning is nigh. What's going on in the locker room as all five of you prepare to fulfill your destiny?
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[PM] No Holds Barred, Prompt Me
A prison guard loves to beat the prisoners and berate them. Though unable to fight the guard, the prisoners look for any way to harm him. One day, the guard's brother gets arrested and put in the same prison. He was too stubborn to ask to be placed in protective custody.
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[PM] No Holds Barred, Prompt Me
You are a violinist. Upon arriving at the venue where you are expected to perform for some elite politicians, you witness a crazed woman being dragged away.
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[PM] No Holds Barred, Prompt Me
I pick up my office phone, flustered, on a busy Monday morning on the Golden Gate Bridge. "There's another jumper," the voice tells me. I look at the clock. *This can't be right,* I think to myself. ...
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[PM] No Holds Barred, Prompt Me
"The scars were like family; she couldn't remember a time without them." Use this line (or a variation of it) somewhere in your story.
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[PM] No Holds Barred, Prompt Me
Nun wakes up in a brothel in orbit around a planet she's only ever read about. She can't remember the last 3 days and she didn't recognize any of the clothes in the floor.
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[PM] No Holds Barred, Prompt Me
A psychopath is holding a high school class hostage and decides to teach a life lesson.(The psychopath is totally nuts)
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[WP] "And then I saw him... Galgath, the mad."
"Bullshit!" One of the mercenaries yelled out, drink in his outstretched hand. "Galgath the Mad ain't real. You think us fools?" Shouts of agreement sounded from most of the men at the Dancing Pig Inn. Horace looked at the other people, searching for a face that believed him. He had to tell someone, they had to know t...
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[WP] "And then I saw him... Galgath, the mad."
...taken from "An Incredible Journey (The Travels of Thomas Johnson, First Interstellar Earthling Explorer #2)" written by Michael Halvorson. [EDITOR'S NOTE: *In* *this* *section*, *Johnson* *describes* *his* *travels* *inside* *the* *remotest* *of* *the* *Mercutian* *moons*, *where* *his* *guide* *takes* *him* *to* *...
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[WP] "And then I saw him... Galgath, the mad."
No one understands what it's like to be in a battle until they've been in one, but let me try to describe it for you. It smells like iron, and sweat, and open privvies, and mud. You're bounced from one person to the next, kicked and trodden on by your mates as you press forward and then by the enemy when you get clos...
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[WP] "And then I saw him... Galgath, the mad."
'Hahahaha!! You could never bring him down by yourself Dagren. The man, if he truely is a man, once slew 50 men with not but a dull training sword.' 'Perhaps you are right Olaf, but I must try none the less.' Dagren sat and pondered his next move while the other men in the tavern continued to tell lavish stories about...
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[WP] "And then I saw him... Galgath, the mad."
... The billowing smoke choked my lungs. The smell of gore, seared flesh and shit roiled my stomach. I could hardly stand, so slick the ground was with blood and oil. No battle of men could have taken place here, I thought, no mortals capable of this carnage. And then I saw him... Galgath, the Mad. I'd never believed...
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A famous wrestler sustained a career-ending injury because he lost to his archnemesis, who won by cheating. Despite the warnings from his doctor, he's back on the ring to have one last fight with him.
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A famous wrestler sustained a career-ending injury because he lost to his archnemesis, who won by cheating. Despite the warnings from his doctor, he's back on the ring to have one last fight with him.
Ever felt like you've brought shame upon your family? Like you've let them down? I know I have. I shouldn't have felt shame, I wasn't the one who cheated. Yet, despite how desperately I pleaded, no one believed my 'ludicrous' claims. On that night, 4 years ago, I was the overwhelming favourite. In fact, I danced deli...
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Explain the life of a high-school teacher..... if they taught in the 'Idiocracy' universe.
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[WP] "Only a man who writes can appreciate a good pen."
He was walking down the road casually when his foot hit something. There was a metallic sound as it rolled away. Curiously, he went to pick up the shiny thing. It was long and thin, there was something elegant about it. It was just a pen. Not an ordinary one though, but still, a pen. He sighed in disappointment. Not wh...
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[WP] A pilot with vital photographs of enemy troop movement is shot down over hostile territory. He escapes capture but is still behind enemy lines. He needs to get the photographs to his army or they will lose the war.
"C'mon!" Frank shouted. He furiously drew in his parachute and rolled it up in case it gave away their position. "Goddamnit, Frank, just hold--argh!" Perry squeezed his thigh just above his wound as another shot of blinding white pain went through his body. He looked down at the sharp object protruding from his leg. ...
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[WP] A pilot with vital photographs of enemy troop movement is shot down over hostile territory. He escapes capture but is still behind enemy lines. He needs to get the photographs to his army or they will lose the war.
He crouched in the ravine, his breathing ragged, as he watched the smoke billow from the wreckage of his observation plane some 1,000 meters away. His crew was in there, dead, burning, and he was here, battered and bruised but still alive. His self-hatred threatened to overwhelm him – they were his crew, his responsibi...
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[WP] A dark comedy about two inexperienced hitmen who just finished their first task. Details inside.
The phone rang, causing Kyle to jump higher than a man his size had the right to jump. "I thought someone was shooting at us," Kyle said through a smile of relief. "Shooting at us?" Thomas slapped Kyle on the forehead, ignoring his protests. "Fuck is this, Star Trek? Guns don't sound like a phone." "Actually," Kyle ...
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"No!" Kyle barked. "Ya mad?" Thomas shook his head disapprovingly as he punched digits into his phone with his trembling fingers. "Mad!" Cried Thomas. "What we've just done is fricking mad, you muppet." Kyle flung his index finger angrily upwards, a drop of the businessman's blood flying off of the tip of his finger ...
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"I expected his brain to explode," Kyle said. "This was more of a...spray." Thomas cringed, sniffing in a lungful of air. "Well, come on," Kyle said. "You didn't think his head would explode? You practically shot him point blank." "Different guns do different things." "I thought it'd be like Marvin in 'Pulp Fiction...
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"You fucking shot him!" Thomas yelled in horror. "He was pulling on us. Who the hell would have thought this old coot would have a gun in his study?" Kyle replied. "Fuck man. This guy was just supposed to pay us double what that shady asshole was offering us to kill him and we were going to be on our way." "I had m...
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Even with the discussion over for the time being, the sense that there was still much to be discussed between the pair hung in the air, glittering in the vectors of sunlight that filtered in the gaps between the curtains like dust. Thomas, haunched on the motel room bed, stole glances at his partner - part out of conc...
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"This guy's blood is really sticky. Like if I was Dracula this would be great, but seriously this guy has problems," screeched Kyle. He was busy shaking his bloody fingers and dancing around the body like a tribal member hopping around a sacred flame. "I think him being dead is about his only problem," responded a so...
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[WP] A dark comedy about two inexperienced hitmen who just finished their first task. Details inside.
"Which one am I talking to?" Thomas could have startled the corpse at his feet with his gulp. "Thomas, sir." The ass staining tone that Thomas responded with ruined Kyle's confidence. It was smart to be scared now. They had just been talking about giving themselves up to the pork authorities. And now that their boss ...
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[WP] A dark comedy about two inexperienced hitmen who just finished their first task. Details inside.
"Fuck." Kyle exclaimed, the blood glistening off his hands in the mid-summer sun that shone in through the open window. "... Fuck." Thomas agreed. "We shouldn't have done this in the afternoon. We should have had a bucket. Fuck." "We've gotta call the police, Kyle. We just killed someone. Fuck." "Oh yeah, of course...
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“Shit Thomas, I can’t see an exit wound” Kyle said “How are you holding up?” “Bastard got me good. I can feel it, deep inside. Feels like death. It’s too dark. Shouldn’t of cut the power, it tipped him off.” Thomas lay slumped in a growing pool of blood, clutching his gut while his partner lowered his shirt. Kyle st...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
Vladimir stared at the blue sheets draped over his body. Such a dull, lifeless color. Maybe the hospital was trying to not give false hope to the patients or maybe- Vlad closed his eyes and breathed out. He was just told he's an old man, 40 years gone, and he's thinking about the meaning of the damned sheets? It was p...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
You know the last thing I wanted were those two pieces of toast. I had been asleep for 20 years and all I could get as a first meal was two pieces of toast. Just toast. No butter or jam. Just peanut butter. I'd almost forgotten what it was like. Sweet, sweet peanut butter. So sticky though! I'd almost forgotten how to ...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
When he awoke he was like a baby, no knowledge, no words to use. Nothing. After explaining to the patient innumerable times what had happened to him, there was still no returning memories. This is the problem with being in a coma for forty years, nothing of the original mind is left, everything has been reset. Even...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
I stare up at the ceiling watching the methodical turning of the fan. Not really knowing or caring why. I could've been great. I could've been so fuckin great. They say that I should try and enjoy the last few years. I don't really care. I've given up. Nothing matters, not even me. They just moved a young girl in the...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
I tried to picture my broken body splintered beneath the 3,000 pounds of metal I’d spent all of last year saving for. Well, I guess it wasn’t really last year. I wondered who had found me- which good samaritan had yelled to me, trying to elicit any response he could. “Stay with me man,” he’d probably said. Something li...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
It started with a faint sound. An electronic beep that sounded muffled by static. New sounds made their entrance mixing into a cacophony of vaguely familiar sounds. The first thing that Vince felt was light. Light behind his eyelids, his left arm felt the warm caress of sunlight. He opened his eyes slowly. A hospital r...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
It had been five weeks since he woke from the coma. The world had moved on, Laura couldn't be found. His parents had died in the car accident. He had no job, no friends and no life. His once athletic body was weak and feeble from 20 years of lying in a hospital bed. He glanced around his private room taking in the w...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
I woke up. Bright light was the only thing I saw for a couple of minutes. Until a man in white came into the room, "A doctor?", I thought. He said my name, then, he told me that I was in a coma for a long time and finaly woken up. I've looked on my hands, they were hands of an old man. I've asked, "How long?". My voice...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
The world had moved on. A famous quote from the dark tower series by Stephen king ironic because it was the last book before it happen. 40 years had past since the light had burst into his retinas giving him the crisp golden gift of sight. You never think about those kind of things he sure didn't. He was in the golden...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
The plexiglass window pane, the selection of plastic yellow bottles, and the fingerworn rows of brightly colored buttons were all too familiar, but after the vending machine rejected his long-folded dollar bill for the fifth time, Henry watched his remaining money flutter to the floor, catch an imperceptible draft, and...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
I'm having the most fantastic dream. It feels like it's gone on forever, but it never gets old, or boring. I could never tire of this experience. I've just finished opening night. There is a moment of silence after I utter my last line, like the moment between a diver leaving the board and entering the water, and then ...
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
'There's a time and place for everything' It had been 40 years, they said. Doctors have a way of saying things matter-of-factly. Like it's their job. Well it is. But that doesn't change much for me. You see, I've always been me, my hopes, my dreams. I stood for things, stood tall, stood proud. And now I can't even st...
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edit: 2 parts linked Seemingly pulled from nothing, John was being forced back into his body. It wasn’t something he wished, or thought of. In fact, he hadn’t thought of much lately. As he struggled to come to terms with waking up, something he’s regrettably done countless times before, John noticed something was off....
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
The clock goes back and forth cycling between ten in the morning and six in the evening every time my eyes blink. 'I don't have a lot of time to think,' I thought, and then the lights when out again. I guess I can sell my skis, if they're even worth anything these days.
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[WP] An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do.
*ba-beep, ba-beep, ba-beep, ba-beep...* The sound hit his ears, painfully dragging him from his good night's sleep. Was it the alarm? Hopefully, he didn't oversleep. He had a date at eleven thirty. He reached to hit the 'Snooze' button, but he couldn't find it. And why did his arm feel so... *weak*? Probably just slep...
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[WP] A lovestory between the protagonist and an inanimate object.
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[WP] The oval office is chemically attacked. The Chemical gives those infected turrets syndrome. It spreads like coughing. How will the President alert the nation of this new threat, after becoming patient zero?
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[WP] You are the lesser-known fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, Plague. The Day of Reckoning is nigh. What's going on in the locker room as all five of you prepare to fulfill your destiny?
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[WP] You are the lesser-known fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, Plague. The Day of Reckoning is nigh. What's going on in the locker room as all five of you prepare to fulfill your destiny?
Note: Plague is so similar to pestilence that I'm using pollution as the 'popular' horseman. Thanks to Neil Gaiman! Also, Good Omens is a fantastic book if people haven't read it. I imagined coworkers getting ready would be talking about work. --- Plague: "Hey Pollution! Have you seen famine around lately?" Polluti...
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[WP] You are the lesser-known fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, Plague. The Day of Reckoning is nigh. What's going on in the locker room as all five of you prepare to fulfill your destiny?
**Conquest, War, Famine, Death … And Plague** “Hey, Connor, buddy,” I said, coughing. He grunted at me as he sheathed his sword of eternal Conquest and rifled around in his locker. “So, listen,” I persisted, “what are you guys all getting ready for?” “Eh? Nothing. Just practice. For the Reckoning. You know how it is....
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Authors note: This has bad language in it. Not sure if this classifies fro NSFW but I'll wait to see what people think. There may be spelling mistakes but I'm kinda tired right now so I might leave it till tomorrow to correct them all. I think it's pretty readable. Also the French joke is not serious just a quip. Pleas...
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub!
Really? Seems odd. This seems like something people's rather choose to be included in. Its like making r/photoshop battles a default.
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub!
well more users means more potential prompters and authors, so cool
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub!
there's a [modpost](http://redd.it/24yset) on this. feel free to hit us up with questions. :)
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub!
Well, I hope it brings in new ideas, fresh inspiration, and interesting content. ^(^I'm ^just ^a ^little ^afraid ^of ^an ^influx ^of ^bad ^prosody, ^sensitive ^new ^writers, ^and ^this ^sub ^turning ^into ^complaints ^of ^"THE ^SAME ^CONTENT ^OVER ^AND ^OVER!! ^But ^my ^paranoia ^is ^unfounded.)
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I don't see how anything bad can come of it, more users means more prompts and more answers!
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I'm cautiously pessimistic. seeing as what happened to /r/explainlikeimfive , I fear that the new influx of authors will hurt the subreddit in the long run
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub!
I would rather read the types of things written by people who *seek* this subreddit than the things written by those who *stumble upon* it. In general, default subs get a lot of traffic and about twelve bajillion posters of Reddit catch-phrases and submitters who will never ever *ever* use the search function. Op...
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub!
Hopefully this will cut down on all the terrible fan fiction prompts. Speaking of which, why isn't there a separate subreddit for people to post their fan fiction prompts?
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub!
There are now 50 default subs? This feels like Syndrome from the Incredibles tried to make a subreddit and failed. "And when everything's a default subreddit, nothing will be."
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What. I just made this account a short while ago and subscribed to a bunch of interesting-looking subreddits (2 cool 4 defaults) and it feels like a solid portion of the ones I subscribed to got defaulted. With great power comes great responsibility, I guess?
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I think there's a reason I unsubbed from most of the previous defaults and I'm very sad that I'll probably be losing some of my favorite subs soon too. :(
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Having seen this sub making /r/bestof a lot recently I think its a good thing. I don't ever write anything here, but I love reading all the amazing original stories.
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Drats. Now I have to unsubscribe. Just kidding. I'm glad a sub as innovative and quality-oriented as this one made it.
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Lets put it this way: I have **no idea** what this sub is, but I'm about to find out. This thread on my frontpage is actually the first time I've ever heard of /r/WritingPrompts.
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RIP /r/WritingPrompts, 2011-2014 Edit: okay, maybe I'm being too pessimistic. But /r/explainlikeimfive was ruined by becoming a default sub, and this is a similar subreddit. It could go either way.
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I prefer my prompt to include directory info. PS1="\n\[\e[30;1m\]\[\016\]l\[\017\](\[\e[34;1m\]\u@\h\[\e[30;1m\])-(\[\e[34;1m\]\j\[\e[30;1m\])-(\[\e[34;1m\]\@ \d\[\e[30;1m\])->\[\e[30;1m\]\n\[\016\]m\[\017\]-(\[\[\e[32;1m\]\w\[\e[30;1m\])-(\[\e[32;1m\]\$(/bin/ls -1 | /usr/bin/wc -l | /bin/sed 's: ::g') files, \...
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Holy crap, this is awesome :) edit - Holy crap, does this make me a hipster?
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I wonder how the mods will keep the Writing prompts fresh? Reoccurring prompts were an issue pre-default.
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Guys look! I finally did something before it was cool! I am irrationally pumped right now.
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What do I think? There goes the neighborhood, is what I think.
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A wider audience will scare me away from posting my writing on here.
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This strikes me as a terrible idea. writingprompts is featured on bestof often enough that it didn't need the publicity. Most of the *other* subreddits benefit from casual contributors, I don't think this one does. The only people who will be brought into the sub are ones who wouldn't have added it on their own, and...
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Honestly? I'm kind of angry. I'd much rather this stayed in it's little bubble community. The only good I can see coming of this is more people that might be interested will find us. Which is very good. But it comes at the cost of people that aren't interested at all or that could potentially be harmful to the communi...
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I just hope that we don't get any circle jerking
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