Prompt Archive
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Harvest Feast Prompts
While walking through a wood of golden birch your Legendary Character suddenly finds themself amongst a marvelous fairy feast. They are ushered to a seat at the long table which stretches far in either direction. They were told never to partake of what the Fair Folk offer, but it seems terribly rude to refuse.
Prompt Words
- Pumpkin
- Spice
- Treat
- Feast
- Pomegranate
- Stuffed
- Decadent
- Harvest
- Bread
- Baked
- Amber
- Delicacy
- Fruit
- Sweet
- Excess
- Copper
- Table
- Roast
- Bargain
- Greet
- Turkey
- Carve
- Autumn
- Marvelous
- Pie
- Dish
- Appetite
- Banquet
- Berry
- Grateful
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Haunting Prompts
Your Legendary Character’s car (or carriage) breaks down at the threshold of a small village at the edge of a dark forest. As they enter the village on foot strange music drifts toward them on a chilly autumn breeze.
Prompt Words
- Haunting
- Eerie
- Bones
- Vanished
- Ominous
- Scratch
- Antique
- Darkness
- Ebony
- Bride
- Mysterious
- Skulls
- Spoiled
- Vampire
- Spooky
- Grave
- Ethereal
- Obscure
- Rotten
- Creeping
- Ivory
- Bloody
- Night
- Monstrous
- Defiled
- Ghost
- Howling
- Ravenous
- Cemetery
- Decay
- Banish
Scenetember Prompts
Write a 250-500 word scene based on the prompt words below. Your scene can be a side quest for a book you’ve already made, an alternate universe for an established story, or something entirely new.
Prompt Words
- Statue
- Gossip
- Emblem
- Duel
- Gem
- Faint
- Notorious
- Brother
- Institution
- Fever
- Tempt
- Privilege
- Deviation
- Blast
- Cunning
- Forget
- Expertise
- Seal
- Affinity
- Charm
- Shiver
- Note
- Fountain
- Storm
- Exploration
- Morning
- Flower
- Obsession
- Twilight
- Dance
Smaugust Prompts
Ignite your creative brain by writing a 250-500 word scene based on these dragon-inspired word prompts below. Your scene can be a side quest for a book you’ve already made, an alternate universe for an established story, or something entirely new.
*NOTE: These prompts were not chosen by me but were part of the anual Smaugust Challenge
Prompt Words
- Doll
- Revive
- Sunshine
- Rotten
- Lake
- Storm
- Ash
- Cellar
- Grubby
- Harvest
- Worm
- Scrap
- Pier
- Soul
- Venomous
- Lion
- Restless
- Broken
- Abandon
- Coffin
- Deep
- Lost
- Core
- Offense
- Mud
- Misery
- Fate
- Mark
- Harbor
- Criminal
- Monarch