Dragon Writing Prompts

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#419: “A group of select people are contacted divinely and instructed to help others prepare themselves for death (yeah, probably in that weird angel-of-death way, and think the elderly or terminally ill). They’re escorted by angels in human guise to their “charges”. But the job is dangerous, as there are demons in human guise (pretending to be angels) trying to trick the people into helping people prepare for death who aren’t about to go (such as people contemplating suicide, etc.)!” — Xandurth

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#75: “Have a massive syndicate running a series of game stations all over the galaxy, where people go and visit so that they can cameo role play in various different worlds - so like, there’s a LotR world with real elves and stuff, and there’s a Mongol China world - and a dragonriders world, etc. The protagonist is in one of these worlds, but finds the maintenance door, and can go between them - and maybe undermines or destroys the syndicate by the end. Double props if there’s someone on the outside who has a story too, and follows him/her and they eventually fall in love as the syndicate falls down.” — CrimsonShinigami

This was posted by “Lucena Taven” in this year’s NaNoWriMo Adopt a Plot folder.

#16: The main character (I always envisioned a man approaching middle age) is a hardened cynic, and tends to view the world with an angry, pessimistic light. One day, he’s taking a walk in the park when he sees a little boy throwing pennies into the fountain, trying to get the “lady” in the fountain to catch one of the pennies in her hand, telling the man that if she catches one his wish will come true. The man, wishing to play along with the boy, throws one in, but doesn’t make a wish. So, in lieu of granting his wish, the spirit of the fountain (who comes in the form of the lady statue) blesses/curses him by allowing him to see magic. Imagine waking up in the morning and seeing everything: household spirits, imaginary friends, vampires, angels…

This was posted by “Lucena Taven” in this year’s NaNoWriMo Adopt-a-Plot folder. If the exact description doesn’t excite you, let it be a spark to fire up any idea for a story :-)

#16: Heaven and Hell are two large companies, but in recent years Heaven has declined and Hell has risen in power faster than Google. In order to keep the company from going out of business, the CEOs of Heaven sell it to Hell and retire to Greener Pastures. To keep their jobs, the angels of Heaven submit to their new masters; those who resist are “cast down to earth” in a manner ironically like the fall of Satan.

One of the main characters goes outside to see a meteor shower, and one of them falls into the sea nearby (I’m thinking this is a small coastal city, boardwalk, beach, etc.). So he/she goes out to see what happened, and they find a soggy and irate angel.

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#34: “There’s this girl who’s been able to see ghosts since childhood. Years later, her best friend gets himself over his head experimenting with magick and manages to lose his body temporarily. Antics ensue when he a) tries to convince her that it’s really him and b) when they go to attempt to get his body back.” — Lunae

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#4: Three kids are sucked into a European History text book, and land in a very different version of history and the only way they can escape is to change things back. Everytime they do, another piece of the path home appears. — Seadragon

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“What’s he doing this side of town? I though he was banned from the imperial library altogether.”

“Maybe he was brought here after death- after all if you want to hide a body,” Asphodel said, “no better place than the icctatology section.” — Zara Ravenwood (#551)

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“A steampunk Victorian England is invaded by aliens using equally steampunk (but, you know, alien) technology.”

#39b submitted by potatocubed

This is from the NaNoWriMo Adopt-a-plot folder where writers post extra plots they won'’t be using. It was a snatch of overheard — hopefully misoverheard! — conversation in a check out line.

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SHE: “There’s no way we’re going to fit all of that in the freezer. It’s still full of waitresses. ”

HE: “I keep forgetting.”

#543 at NaNoWriMo - contributed by SnappingTurtle.

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#3: “Retell the story of Romeo and Juliet, only make them a vampire and a werewolf (you can pick which is which).” — Tupwen

(It was later pointed out that this was a piece of the plot of the movie Underworld but it could go in so many different directions.)

#192: “Alternatively: Vampires and witches exist, but witches are actually vampire-hunters so the two groups, by default, hate each other. After one vampire colony was exerminated by the witches, one small boy survived and was secretly taken in by a witch who felt sorry. At age 18, the vampire escapes. He has all his vampire instincts but was raised by someone ‘good’, so none of his kind would accept him. Living on the fringes of society he meets a young witch and they fall in love against their better judgement. Chaos ensues.” — BlackEyedGirl

Or how about an angel and a devil, a fire demon and a water sprite, an anthrocat and and anthrowolf (their cultures and social structures they’d grown up in would be totally different), Ranma and Akane (from Ranma 1/2) …

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#20: “The story follows a ghost, who for some reason or another decides to become alive again, and needs to work with a devil and an angel to do so.” — Tikvah Ariel

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#2: “Three students are on their way home when they realize that the whole campus is surrounded by a dark, eerie fog. Every time they try to leave campus they end up back where they started. What exactly is going on here? and who is that girl in the red tattered dress that seems to be following them every where?” — shizu_bara

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#13: “Your female MC [main character] is an art lover. She collects all sorts of random art and paintings from dusty little backstreet shops and her house is filled with her collections. One day she buys a painting which includes a robed figure. This robed figure is actually a mage who has been cursed by an enemy to be stuck in the painting until such time as something lets him out. The MC unwittingly manages to release him, and now a countdown is started. The mage has to find a way to break the curse and/or kill his enemy within a certain time limit or he will be stuck back inside the painting for all time. Our mage friend has two brothers, one younger, one older. They sense or otherwise find out that their brother has been released and show up on the MC’s doorstep (because of course, being kind-hearted, she lets the weird stranger from the painting stay with her until she figures out whether to call the insane asylum or the police, or both) to help find a way to stop him from becoming art for eternity. The younger brother is obsessed with potions, but hasn’t quite gotten a hold on his magic yet, so anything he makes is more likely than not to go wrong or just blow up. He’s very hyper and tries a lot of wacky antics to get the original mage and the MC together. The older brother works with runes and tarot cards. He’s dark, sullen, and will do anything in his power to keep his younger brother and your MC apart, because he doesn’t find her suitable for some reason. The first mage, the one in the painting, manipulates matter and energy, which basically means he’s good at illusion and transmutation. The only catch is, they can’t use their powers in front of ordinary people who don’t know about them. So until the MC finds out that they are mages (and probably hundreds of years old), they can’t do magic in front of her.

“Will they find where the first mage’s enemy is hiding? Can they break the curse in time? Will the younger brother blow them all to hell before they can get anywhere? These questions are for you to answer.” — Khetienn

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#23: “Takes place in a dark, corrupted world. Seven princes who rule realms that specialize in different sorts of magics (your choice) come together to form a High Council by which to manage the increasing crime rates and abuse of magic. They decide to write a spell that will merge a person with magic itself, thereby creating an avatar for magic. When the spell is cast, the chosen avatar is the youngest (possibly weakest) prince, and the other princes are outraged. A war breaks out and, in the midst of the fighting, sometime (maybe years) later, the avatar falls silent. As the last act of the avatar, though, the prince creates the “insert name here” (weight of the world) a stone that melds all the powers of the realms. With it, he can seek out people who’ve gravely abused magic and… er, remove it, sort of suck it out of them.” — laurence ashton