Writing Prompts
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Backstory Change
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have a character's backstory change.
Can I Have Your Attention?
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, an announcement is about to change the course of history.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Strength Lost
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, let a character lose their powers.
Heirloom
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, someone's shown up demanding your narrator's family heirloom.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Old Technology
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have your characters use old technology to accomplish a goal.
Guardian
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, your character is guardian of an unnatural lake.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Connect the Dots
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have your characters connect the dots.
Road Trip
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, your characters are trapped in a car together.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Hero Must Die
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, your hero must die (or expect to die).
Tech Tantrums
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, your character is battling technology.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Forget the Plan
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have your characters hatch a plan and then completely abandon it.
In the Darkroom
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, a photography student is about to uncover something...unusual.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: This Is Real
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, give your characters a reality check.
Sparks Fly
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, write about two pyromaniacs.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Triggered Memory
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, trigger a character's memory.
An Empty House
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, set your story inside an empty house.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Second Life
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, reveal a character's second life.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Jurisdiction Battle
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have your characters get caught in a battle over jurisdiction.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Weakness Becomes Strength
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have a character's weakness become their strength.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Shock to the System
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, send a shockwave through your story.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Unexpected Mission
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, send your character on a mission.
Party Time
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, set your story at a party.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Transgression Moment
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, show a character's first moment of transgression.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Who Am I?
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have a character experience amnesia.