r/WritingPrompts↗
Prompts and motivation to create something out of nothing
Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.
18.9M subscribers1,656 posts / mo in Sep 2026648 authors / mosince 2010
r/WritingPrompts has 18.9M members (+0.3% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,656 posts a month from 648 people. Top topics: Alien Invasions, Immortality Tales and Death and Afterlife.
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- Alien Invasions0.9%
- Immortality Tales0.9%
- Death and Afterlife0.8%
- Hero vs Villain0.8%
- Dog and Human Dynamics0.8%
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- Substack
- Imgflip
- TypingTest
- Reedsy
- Spotify
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