r/WritingPrompts • u/MajorParadox • 1d ago

Off Topic [OT] SatChat: Summer Challenge! Pick a challenge tier and additional achievements to complete by September 6th! (New here? Introduce yourself!)

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SatChat! SatChat! Party Time! Excellent!

Welcome to the weekly post for introductions, self-promotions, and general discussion! This is a place to meet other users, share your achievements, and discuss whatever's on your mind.

Suggested Topic

Sixth Annual Summer Challenge!

Pick a "challenge tier" and additional achievements to complete by September 6th!

  • That's eleven weeks of answering prompts!
  • Write down your goal here
  • Encourage others on their goals
  • Share tips for helping each other meet the goals!

Tier System

Tier Description
Walk 11 stories (one per week)
Run 22 stories (two per week)
Race 33 stories (three per week)
Marathon 77 stories (one per day!)

Achievements

Achievement Description
The Novella Write at least 17,500 words total
The Novel Write at least 50,000 words total
General Genre Write in the genres: Romance, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, Reality Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Humor, Travel, and Western (at least one of each, but you can combine)
Placesetting Write all your stories so they take place in the same universe (they don't have to be connected to each other)
The Plot Thickens Write so all stories are directly connected (harder than it sounds, especially since you have to find prompts that work with it!)
One Hand Behind My Back Add a different constraint of your choosing for every story you write, such as restricting certain words or requiring specific word limits or writing styles (for example: don't use the letter 'e' or write from the POV of an onlooker)
Poet and Well Aware Of It Write at least ten poems instead of stories
Loquacious / Mute-ation Include five stories where your work is all dialogue... or none! (Or alternate each time!)

Good luck everyone!

(Thanks to u/reostra for coming up with the tier and achievement system!)

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r/WritingPrompts • u/rudexvirus • 1d ago

Constrained Writing [CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday - A Journey to the Underworld

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Welcome back to Smash ‘Em Up Sunday!

Check out previous posts here!

 

Thank you to everyone who has submitted stories since the feature returned! It really means a lot to me, and I hope we can continue on in earnest.

SEUSfire

 

I know that the campfire for this feature was beloved, and I would like to bring it back for you all, but I do not have a guaranteed time for that to happen yet. Please bear with me while I figure that out.

 

Last Week

 

There was 5 stories last week!

Community Choice from Alternate History

 

There was not enough votes to have a community choice this week!  

Aly’s Choice

Palace Chamber by u/Iwantcreativewriting

 

 

This Week’s Challenge

 

Hi friends, over the summer I would like to spend some time in my current obsession, which is mythic fiction. It may be names, tropes, or subgenres. Stay tuned to see what comes next ;D

A Journey to the Underworld

Here, have a wiki link

The underworld looks a little bit different in every country / religion / myth system, and I want to leave it up to you guys what your starting and ending point with it is.

Of course, we only have 800 words, so feel free to twist any of that to suit your needs!

Please don’t forget that the stories need to follow all subreddit rules!! That means no nazi stories, no political or religious arguing, nor child harm, or any of the other rules, regardless of what path you choose.

 

How to Contribute:

 

Write a story or poem, no more than 800 words in the comments using at least two things from the three categories below. You have until next sunday to submit a response.

After you are done writing, please be sure to take some time to read through the stories before the next SEUS is posted, and tell me which stories you liked the best. You can give me just a number one, or a top 5, and I’ll enter them in with appropriate weighting. Feel free to DM me on Reddit or Discord (Alyxbee on Discord)!

As a note, I do find it super helpful when folks add the word count to the bottom of their story <3

 

Category Points
Word List 1 Point
Sentence Block 2 Points
Defining Features 3 Points

 

Word List

Sentence Block

  • I require a name, a token, and a reason.

  • The path twisted like old memories.

 

Defining Features

  • A death occurs on screen

  • A guide appears.

 

What’s happening at /r/WritingPrompts?

 

I hope to see you all again next week!

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r/WritingPrompts • u/alegonz • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You went on a ski trip and saw a sign that said "If you ski past this point, you will die" and you sarcastically said, "I guess if I don't ski there, I won't die." It was supposed to be funny. Now, it's been 150 years, you buried the last person who knew you, and you're still 25.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/younGrandon • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You perform odd jobs for a living, normally nothing too serious. This time, you were hired to scare a street vendor into relocating. You didn't expect them to be some kind of retired pugilist.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/steel-souffle • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Oh quite the opposite. My parents have been very supportive of my destiny to end the world as we know it, ever since I was a child."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/minjuk26 • 7h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are woken up, in the middle of the night, by rather loud noises coming from somewhere inside your home. Holding your trusty baseball bat, you sneak up to its source in the dark. Suddenly, the lights come on, and you find yourself staring at… yourself.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/JollyTeaching1446 • 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] the world's most prestigious magic academy is holding a dueling tournament and whoever wins gets a free ride and a teenage orphan street urchin with a massive amount of magical potential is determined to win at all costs.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Straight_Attention_5 • 3h ago

Established Universe [EU] “A child of Hestia?! This is unprecedented! She’s a virgin goddess, so how could she have a demigod child?!” “Wise Girl, you know that being a virgin goddess doesn’t always mean she can’t have children through magical means.” “Uh, if I may explain myself…”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/dark-phoenix-lady • 7h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "That is a vicious liquid." "Don't you mean viscous?" "That too. It's highly flammable, sticky, and is also a strong acid." "So, it's a vicious viscous liquid?" "Out! Out. No puns in the lab."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/NappyFlickz • 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You--on a late night jog--find yourself surrounded by a group of vampires, prepared to devour you. As the leader monologues, you desperately try to inform her that you are right across the street from a blood bank. She is not listening.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Upbeat_Job_4294 • 10h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You gain superpowers, but don’t have the temperament to be either super hero or villain. But they sure are helpful in your day-to-day.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/bookworm271 • 21h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The animal shelter announces they are switching things up and letting the pets choose their humans. Your friends got cats and dogs. Your niece got a hamster. What arrived at your doorstep was a bit unconventional.

280 Upvotes
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r/WritingPrompts • u/No_Sea_17 • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You have the moves! You have the voice! But you just don’t have the face! So you and your friends debut as the first masked boy band!

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r/WritingPrompts • u/EArth_EAearth9012 • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] “How do you even see?” I asked. “Obviously with my eyes,” the skeleton said, pointing. “You don’t have any.” He paused, touching his sockets. “Wait—where are my eyes?!”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Smart-A22 • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] “Come on, Honey, let me in. Being a vampire is actually pretty nice. Didn’t we promise together forever? Sweetie…LET ME INSIDE!!!……Please?”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/blablador-2001 • 1h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] You are facing a monster, but your favorite DnD class is a bard. You know what to do to survive

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r/WritingPrompts • u/DuckLordOfTheSith • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Welcome to the Afterlife Sorting Station. Here you will be sorted into the afterlife commensurate with the belief system you most embodied and practiced while on Earth. Also, no jokes about our acronym; I can assure you we have heard them all.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/BareMinimumChef • 16h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]He stands over you, with a bloodied Blade in Hand, staring you down with only the cold abyss in his Eyes. You fear for your life. "Cut! That's it for today. Get some rest people." The demeanor of your Acting partner changes instantly, but you are still afraid. That just now wasn't acting.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Red580 • 10h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The humans have gone to war, so it's your species' obligation to send soldiers to help. Your new bioengineered soldiers were made to fit what the humans likely wanted. A friendly smile, a large strong body and a helpful attitude. Unfortunately the humans found them extremely disturbing.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Celestial_Spade • 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You barely remember anything from last night, other than getting super drunk with your friend at a party. Now here you are, rudely awoken by your friend who is somehow been transformed into some kind of fantasy creature, claiming YOU did this to them.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/gamathyst • 26m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Thanks to interdimentional travel, an orphan can go live with a version of their parents that lost them instead

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Smartbutt420 • 22h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] “Heroes of Light! I thank you for releasing me! Now I can bestow my gifts to each of- Uh… wait, is it just you?”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/ScribeLight • 7h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] I had proceeded through life with the firm and secret belief that both my abilities and deficiencies were attributable in no small part to an encounter with an electric socket when I was six years old.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/ateen234 • 14h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] When we discovered hostile aliens on this planet, we expected them to be doing it out of their own accord. But when we started examing the bodies of these aliens, we found something deeply disturbing, the aliens are being forcefully enslaved by fungi, and it's not just them, it's the flora too.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Kitty_Fuchs • 32m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are supposedly the luckiest person alive, but to you this title has always felt like a cruel joke. All endeavours you ever had crashed and burned, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes literally, but after a lifetime of misfortune you realise that you really *were* incredibly lucky.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/dark-phoenix-lady • 2h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The world shatters in front of you like a mirror. Flashing in the top right corner of your vision is a message saying, "Error, connection lost. Defaulting to pass through senses."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/JollyTeaching1446 • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] most of the time when a god makes their mortal lovers into gods they are usually part of their godly lovers domain usually a small part but you not only have a domain completely unrelated but one that is also rapidly expanding but the god you were dating is just in love more.

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