This is an epic collection of writing prompts to inspired your creative writing! There’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and more. If anyone writes a story in response to these please post them in the comments below so we can read them!
Source: Writing Prompts
I’ve seen stories based on some of these.
Kingdom that works with “monster” races: The anime “Fluffy Paradise” comes to mind, and if that doesn’t fit the bill, statistically there’s an anime that HAS to. Various animes starring beast-tamers also come to mind.
Wishing for a demon to turn human: I had an idea for a story like that, only it was a genie; the first two wishes were for the genie to 1) Understand the implications completely, and 2) Be able to choose not to grant the wish; and I didn’t know where to go from there.
Demon king treating you better that you had been: The anime/manga “Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun”. Fantastic story. Only difference is there’s currently no demon king, so it’s the whole underworld that ends up treating our human protagonist well (and it’s implied that the human may end up becoming the new demon king).
Omniscient but easily distracted narrator: Makes me think of the webcomic “Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint.” Don’t know how easily distracted the narrator is, but he’s definitely playing a different game than everybody else, and not just because of advanced knowledge.
Vampire who is fighting those avenging them: Make it not a copy-and-paste of Darth Vader and you have my attention.
Just about anything involving aliens from this list: Something like it has been done through the whole “humans are space orcs” trope (Fun trope, BTW).
Regularly kidnapped by the villain, hero doesn’t save you this time: Literally Megamind. Also: one of the greatest less-well-known movies in existence.
Wizard who knows one spell: Disclaimer since I haven’t actually seen this one, but I recall something like that in the anime KonoSuba.
Sacrificing the petri dish: Also Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. The first challenge the main character faces is to either take a life, or lose his; he kills an insect. In fact, he kills an insect which was going to lay eggs and is credited with over 100 lives taken.
Update: the kingdom that works with monster races is a manhwa entitled “The Greatest Estate Developer.” The main character is a student of architecture and public infrastructure who brings his knowledge to a medieval swords-and-magic type world and transforms it, and he literally gets favors from both angels and demons (as well as everything in between) in exchange for his crazy world-changing ideas.
I actually had an epiphany about omniscience the other day. Knowing every possible outcome means you’d never know what was about to happen really. Think along the lines of infinite multiple timelines that diverge along individual choices. What timeline is this? Is it the one where I enjoy my hamburger, or is it the one where I find a pubic hair under the lettuce? Oh! This cheeseburger is great! Shit! It’s the one where I find the hair on the last bite.
But because the character is the only omniscient person, no one around them can really understand why the person they turn to for guidance & wisdom is more clueless than they are, so the character is always indecisive & stressed.
Except that omniscience means knowing EVERYTHING — every possible outcome AND the one that will happen. And that is why it’s better left to God, because even understanding the concept requires omnipotence, omnipresence and existence outside of time as well.
Is there a collection of the works from these prompts on Tumblr? Or could we create a collection on AO3? 😏
For the “Zombies attacking some people and not others” prompt: It would be a REALLY short story.
Zombies want brains, right? Well, they don’t like the taste of USED brains. That’s why they go after certain people and not others: They can smell the condition of the brains in their skull and prefer the shiny new UNUSED brains (which a lot of people at any age seem to have) over those that have wear and tear on them because they were actually used. ;P
I sacrificed the bacteria, and it worked.
I had nightmares for the rest of my life, horrified by the realisation that every bacterium has a soul.
Supernatural beings losing all abilities in the presence of true non-believers: Dr. Dana Sculley, Velma Dinkley, and my dad must have met up.
The gods are telling the demon king to let the 10-year-old win …… because there’s a chain of events that starts with the ‘prophesized’ defeat of the demon king. The gods have a hidden plan in which the child is just a sacrificial pawn to trick the demon king (and others) down a path that leads to greater power for the gods. But demons aren’t always evil, they are VERY clever, and prophecies can always be read in more than one way.