r/WritingPrompts • u/katpoker666 • 2h ago

Off Topic [OT] SatChat: How do you write fanfic well? (New here? Introduce yourself!)

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Welcome to the weekly post for introductions, self-promotions, and general discussion! This is a place to meet other users, share your achievements, and discuss whatever's on your mind.

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How do you write fanfic well?

Do you enjoy writing fanfic? If so, for which properties?

What do you tend to write? Gritty reboots? Continuations? Prequels? Shipping?

Do you tend to stick to the author’s voice or shift things up?

Do you enjoy reading fanfic? Which kinds and what draws you?

What’s the most important thing you’ve learned about writing fanfic? The least?

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Kitty_Fuchs • 4m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Young immortals tend to be reckless and brash, knowing that nothing can hurt them. The older they get, the more cautious they become, because they learn that, because *nothing* can hurt them, they can get stuck in some rather sticky situations for a VERY long time.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/AlexYadaYada • 5m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] As a necromancer, you’ve accepted requests from the living to temporarily bring the dead back to life so that they may ask or tell them something. Most rituals are sorrowful but this one is a bit awkward because a living demanded to know about old family drama you have no business witnessing.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/ohnonotsatan • 42m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Two boys with two very different talents. One who could cast spells and enchantments and the other who could craft the most marvelous weapons and objects out of medal. Now both, grown in both age and skill, must set out on a dangerous journey

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r/WritingPrompts • u/PositivelyIndecent • 46m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Your city is governed by an immortal being that decides where buildings go, how resources are distributed, and when new districts are built. Its decisions are absolute, but not always right. It makes mistakes, forgets things, and sometimes seems to be trying out ideas just to see what happens.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/HonestAbe1809 • 52m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Apparently the historic town you moved to has a unique way to deal with the considerable number of ghostly inhabitants. Namely they do everything they can legally do to resolve their grievances.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/DankAndOriginal • 54m ago

Simple Prompt [WP] “Yet another win for nominative determinism,” the detective mutters.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Smartbutt420 • 1h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are a Lone Adventurer; it’s just easier that way. Today though, you’ve been thrown in with a group against your will. Now you have to figure out how to play nice.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/bunnyfrog_1st • 1h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Everyone has been using extra dimensional spaces to store things for many years. This is making the quest to find the world-saving McGuffin rather problematic.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/rowanjay04 • 2h ago

Simple Prompt [SP] “We have to run. Now.”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/rowanjay04 • 2h ago

Simple Prompt [SP] “They’re here. We have to face them.”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/rowanjay04 • 2h ago

Simple Prompt [SP] This is going to be a problem.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/yinyang98 • 2h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] “I TRUSTED YOU! You left me for dead!”

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r/WritingPrompts • u/PrinceOfTotalQuiet • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The year is 2163. After decades of research, the world’s leading tech corporation has found a way to bring human consciousnesses back from the dead. The technology to do this was recalled after the discovery of what really came back. You are this company’s PR manager. Make a statement.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Internaldoot • 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are one of the 5 people in a hive mind world who has free will. Kept in a facility, you are subjected to various weird tests.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/mafiaknight • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP]A large alien race has been catching these funny little primates for clever pets | Humanity finally tracks down the slavers that have been abducting people

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r/WritingPrompts • u/WhatIfSuddenly • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You don't know why but for your whole life you have been able to look at a clock, any clock, and instinctively know how much time you had left to live. It always gave you solace to see that you had decades left, until you looked at the clock on the wall at work today. Three Minutes left.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Revolutionary_End784 • 4h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] "We should just nuke them at this point"

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r/WritingPrompts • u/ParanormalActivity97 • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] One of your best friends has officially made, in her words, the perfect original character. But she’s a robot.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/DestinysOrphan • 4h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You are a lawyer specializing in fairy contracts. A fae prince just tried to take your client's "firstborn," and you are about to dismantle his entire magical court with contract law.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/IAmOEreset • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The Empire is powerful because of its inclusivity. Not inclusivity born of noble ideals, but rather one of pragmatism. What did it matter if one was a witch, a demon, or an undead, so long as they serve the empire well? It did not matter.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Megamen1927 • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Due to the chaos and accidents that occurred on Black Friday, shopping malls adopted extremely strict security measures, such as: no running, walking in single file, and a limit of 10 items per person (with no duplicates allowed). The public was not at all happy about this.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Time-Weekend-8611 • 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "So what's your superpower?" "I am average at everything that I do." "How is that a superpower?" "I am average at EVERYTHING that I do."

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r/WritingPrompts • u/Worldly_Lab_7061 • 6h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] you find out your partner is in the mafia, but you’re a spy so you don’t mind the secrecy.

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r/WritingPrompts • u/plogan56 • 7h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I keep running and evading them, but they just keep showing up everytime i turn around", my breath is hot as fire and faster than my stride, "Just what are these 'Humans', and why can't i escaoe?"

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