Stories About Storytelling Writing Prompts

After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had.

In an alternate reality JK Rowling died writing The Deathly Hallows and requested George RR Martin finish the book. He accepted and takes over at the Battle of Hogwarts with no instruction on how it's supposed to end.

Every "walks into a bar" joke occurs in a single bar. You're the bartender and your shift just started.

A time traveler goes from 2018 to 1980. Instead of using his knowledge for great gain or influence history, he writes a sitcom that scarily accurately predicts future events.

One day, at the library, you find a book written by an author with the same name as you. As you start to read it, you come to realize it's an exact telling of your life. As you continue to read, you reach the story of finding this very book, though you're not even close to half way through it.

As a teen, you daydreamed and wrote about a fictional world you created. Ten years later, you’ve now started hearing voices. They’re prayers from the inhabitants of your world. To them, it has been 1,000 years since their god abandoned them and you must make things right.

You are given a writing prompt by your English Professor. You decide to post the writing prompt to r/writingprompts and get an amazing story. You decide to use that story as your own and turn it in as your assignment only to find out that your professor was the one who wrote the story.

"Earth" is actually the setting of a tabletop RPG, where players create a species of animal and try to rise to the top of the food chain. The rest of the group is getting fed up with the power gamer and his "humans."

A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line.

You're an ancient and powerful dragon, master of the arcane arts. And your hobby is to scry on random humans to watch the unfolding drama of their lives like soap operas. Sometimes you make subtle interventions to nudge your favourite "shows" along in interesting directions.

When the last king died you usurped the throne and exiled their heir. Knowing how these stories usually play out, you expected them to return to challenge you for the throne. What you did not expect was that almost everyone would stand behind you against the dead king's child.

I’ve seen quite a few posts making fun of the trope where the hero refuses to kill the villain despite killing the villain’s mooks. So, how about a story where the hero refuses to harm any of the people working for the villain but is perfectly willing to kill the villain themself.

A stranger introduced themselves as you biggest fan. You thought they were crazy. Then they showed you a book with a picture that looks eerily like you. You read the first chapter and it follows your morning perfectly from your perspective. Your heart nearly stops when you notice the genre.

You are the proprietor of "The Wandering Inn", a tavern and guest house that appears sporadically to travellers in different worlds across the multiverse. You keep a journal on all of the weird, wonderful and disturbing visitors you've fed and lodged.

A story where every meaning of "I never said we should kill him" based on italicization is used.

[META] A world where uncreative "In a world where (SEX THING) is considered normal and acceptable behavior whatsoever with absolutely no other indicated or suggested plot direction tee-hee" Prompts aren't a thing in this subreddit.

"You talk as if creating an entire new universe is as easy as snapping my fingers," said the Archmage. "But sure, I can do it. What did you need it for, again?"

You're a writer. Or you were, yesterday. The publishers agreed it wasn't worth the time. After you tried self-publishing, you're inclined to agree. But a fuming physicist appears in a flash. She threatens to kick your teeth in if she returns to the future and her favorite series isn't complete.

With Fakku and Pornhub both releasing maps of their most popular search terms, we have the data we need to construct the ultimate erotica

Use this prompt as an excuse to write/post the smut you've always wanted to do, but could never find the right prompt for! :)

“It’s just… it’s always ‘The Adventure Continues,’ you know? Why can’t it just be ‘The End?’”

"Of course, while the writing is clever and the gameplay tight, that isn't what has led to this game dominating the news cycle. I'd be remiss as a reviewer if I didn't discuss the malicious spirit bound within the game's code..."

Two narrators, one wants to make it a romance story and the other an action flick, they switch every two paragraphs.

Prompt: put out a NSFW story without using character following fourth (write any short story without using the letter e)