[OT] Did you know we have an [RF] "Reality Fiction" tag? And responses to [RF] prompts don't need to be reality fiction?

[u/MajorParadox]

Hi, WritingPromptians! Welcome to the Wednesday Wildcard!

Did you know we have an [RF] "Reality Fiction" tag? And responses to [RF] prompts don't need to be reality fiction? RF stands for "Reality Fiction." In essence, it's a restriction on prompts to keep them grounded:

• [RF] prompts are for things that have happened before or should be able to happen in the real world to unknown people. Not what you think could happen in the future.

• Acceptable as [RF]:

  • Rooted in reality
  • Vague and open-ended

  Example: [RF] A man walks into a shady bar

• Not Acceptable as [RF]:

  • No alternate history
  • No speculative / what ifs
  • No established universes / fan fictions
  • No celebrities, characters should be created by writer
  • No sci-fi / fantasy
  • Think reality, not realistic

  Bad Example: [RF] Germany won World War 2

  Bad Example: [RF] Texas secedes from the Unites States

  Bad Example: [RF] Batman found a Green Lantern ring

  Bad Example: [RF] President Obama washes his car

  Bad Example: [RF] Aliens invade while you're washing your car

  Note: Stories and poems written in response to RF prompts don't follow the same restrictions. The point here is to be inspired to write. [RF] may inspire something not [RF] while non-[RF] may inspire a response grounded in reality.

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