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Writing Prompts

  1. “I am not here to kill you! I’m here for bread!”
  2. “Listen up! I hate all of y'all! That’s it. That’s my announcement.”
  3. “Sometimes you just gotta dance.”
  4. “If there was ever a time to start running, now would be it.”
  5. “Incase you haven’t heard, there is a bounty on your head.”
  6. “Maybe it’s a pun? Ever thought about that?”
  7. “Now, how could I forget you?”
  8. “Have you ever seen a raging Pomeranian? Yeah. Thought so.”
  9. “Do you think werewolves like ice cream?”
  10. “If I did die, I only have one regret, and it’s not flipping you off more when I had the chance.”
  11. “You’re a good friend, I hope you know that.”
  12. “No offense, but didn’t you just say we weren’t gonna be violent?”
  13. “Did you bring the blood bags?”
  14. “Well, let me see here, the only thing I could diagnose you with is idiocy.”
  15. “I just want to fall in love.”
  16. “Cake? In this dire time? Yeah, sure, why not? We all die anyway.”
  17. “Floor it!”
  18. “Well aren’t you special?”
  19. “From here on out, you shall call me -.”
  20. “I never wanted to die, but to be immortal, that sounds awful too. Paying taxes? Forever? Nah.”
  21. “Living with 7 dogs really opens your eyes to a lot of things.”
  22. “For the most part, I am, in fact, an idiot. But I fully admit to it, which should count for something.”
  23. “Did you actually buy that shirt?”
  24. “Where did you find a potato? Where? Look where we are! There shouldn’t be a potato here!”
  25. “How come it’s never, ‘let’s explore the ice cream section’? Or ‘let’s try and find the cutest dog’? It’s always something horrible. Why?”
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Favourite narrative tropes:

  • “That was ONE time!”
  • “Due to an administrative error”, or any major plot point which is caused almost entirely by bureaucratic fuckups
  • “Contrary to popular belief” appended to something that’s either really obvious or completely subjective
  • A character makes an assertion, then cut to the narrator contradicting it (‘“Everything’s fine!” Everything was not fine.’)
  • First-person narrators who call a specific character by a series of increasingly convoluted nicknames
  • Unusual narrative euphemisms. I still hold that describing around a curse word is almost always funnier than just using the word.
  • Establishing character moments which subvert your expectations right from the get-go. The best example is in the Brooklyn Nine Nine pilot, where Jake’s fooling around at the crime scene before revealing that he’s already solved the case.
  • Montages. Just montages of any kind, for any reason, anytime. I actually think they work better in text form because you can do so many creative things with them.
  • Side characters with a level of fourth-wall awareness / quasi-supernatural ability which is never quite certain, like the janitor in Scrubs.
  • Double meanings in narration that take a while to make themselves clear.
  • Really, really specific similes.
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clevergirlhelps: “ I see and write a lot of “DON’T DO THIS!!!” posts, so I thought I would make a “DO THIS!!!” post. General Requests • More POC in leading roles • More important friendships • More queer characters in leading roles • More disabled...
clevergirlhelps

I see and write a lot of “DON’T DO THIS!!!” posts, so I thought I would make a “DO THIS!!!” post.

General Requests

  • More POC in leading roles
  • More important friendships
  • More queer characters in leading roles
  • More disabled characters in leading roles
  • More genderqueer and trans characters in leading roles
  • Realistic women in leading roles
  • Happier/more positive characters and messages

Specific

My wish list tag is always updating and includes posts containing things I would like to see in fiction. characterandwritinghelp has a similar tag.

The plot bunnies tag is likewise updating and includes posts that I think would make for an interesting story.

More Things I Would Like to See

  • Steampunk with different ethnic influences alongside the gears
  • Utopias that try really hard to be good, even though they aren’t and never will be perfect
  • Science and magic coexisting
  • Creation stories - stories that focus on building and growth rather than destruction
  • People are good themes
  • Extroverted protagonists
  • Environments other than temperate deciduous
  • Stories centered on art
  • Stories without war

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