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WriterofthePrompts Ultimate Ask Masterlist

I’ve decided to make a masterlist of asks I’ve done to make them easier to find for you guys (and for myself). I split them into categories as best as I could by genre and topic. Also, some asks have some helpful tips in the notes as well to check out (some are marked but not all) and if you have anything to add that you think would help, feel free to reply or reblog with your addition. I’ll try to keep it updated with future asks.

Now without further ado, the strangest and most wonderful list I’ve ever made.

World Building

Urban fantasy prompts/creating urban fantasy world (also linked under fantasy)

Links to help with world building

Creating a pantheon of gods

Things to research when writing a historical novel (also linked under Historical)

Using metaphors in descriptions

Too much world building?

Asking questions to develop a magic system

Wizard school ideas

Why magic would drain from a world

Tips for descriptions

Reasons for civil war

Character Development

Writing confusion in your character

Obstacles to character goals: traveling abroad

Reactions to sadness

Reactions to a devastating event

Showing a character’s anxiety towards something

Showing a character’s secret without revealing it

Reasons a character would die for another

Secrets in a character’s past

Culture shock with loss of rules

Growth of a trainee witch

Characters provoking other characters

Dealing with moving to a completely new place

Why a 19yo would allow a strange boy to live with her

Why a character would want a do-over in life

Showing a character going from good to bad

Possible good messages when the villains aren’t reformed

Kid growing up surrounded only by adults

Quirks for characters

Showing friendship with reserved characters

Introducing an antagonist

Introducing side characters

When you don’t think your character’s backstory fits

Writing Different Types of Characters

Writing antiheroes

The reluctant hero

Writing a violent character afraid of their mind

Making an immoral character likeable

Not a normal girl

Sympathetic villain

Making sure your character isn’t just a flirt

Writing intelligent characters

When your hero isn’t very heroic

Confident characters

Writing an antisocial character

Character Family

Visiting family for the first time

Showing closeness in siblings (opposite twins)

How a joker and a quiet character can become friends

Daughter of a party organizer prompts

Parent jobs where the kid needs to keep up appearances

The mom that left comes back…a vampire

Including character’s parents

Why a character would leave another

Sibling relationships

character with an abusive father (and how to show fear)

Romance

Writing a slow paced love story

love interest vs the ex revamped

Platonic male x female relationships

Random places to get married

Suspense and romance with a “different” male lead

sad relationship prompts

Asexuality and romance

Mutual pining

Romance with large age differences

Childhood friends falling in love

Fluffy unique first kiss

Ways of showing commitment in characters (vampire edition)

Friendship to romance

Small situations for a couple story

fantasy creature and human fluff

characters meeting and falling in love during war

Why best friends might fall in love

Unlikely soulmates prompts

Sci Fi

Using dreams as energy

Time travel prompts (asked for male x female protags)

Time travel: how saving someone can go wrong

Reliving memories

Android characters

Writing humanoids in post apocalypse

Consequences of growing a baby in an artificial womb (theoretical)

The evil AI that characters can’t (shouldn’t) destroy

Girl and guy get trapped in the same body

Rich people in post apocalypse

Discovering you have a doppelgânger

Superheroes

Teenagers, hormones and their superpowers

Weird superpowers

Superhero kids reluctant to be superheroes

Aliens

beings traveling to Earth

Why an alien wouldn’t be able to leave Earth

Reasons an alien would be sent to live on Earth

Human/alien team surviving on hostile planet together

Fantasy/Paranormal

Urban fantasy prompts/creating urban fantasy world (also linked under world building)

gods losing their powers

creations turning on their creators

How elemental powers might work

Why NOT to destroy the world when it’s your goal

Mistreated genies

Tropes of a fantasy (also linked under Writing Motivation/Tips)

Male character ideas in a fantasy

Immortal woman prompts

Beauty and the Beast revamp

How Death and a teenage girl become adventure teammates

Powers for magical beings writing down history

Girl meets demon from forest behind her house

Reverse fairytale prompts

Revamped fairytale prompts 2

Manatees being confused by mermaids

a princess befriends a baby dragon

Making a character believe in a cure for a curse

Egyptian gods living among us

A love between the sun and the moon

What fantasy creatures do on Halloween

Human and fantasy creature become pen pals

Creatures

Monsters and urban legends

Fantastic creatures

A little bit on dragons

Kind dragons

Magic and Witches

witch x wizard romance

witch prompts

Witch being protective over a human-turned-doll

magical boarding school

Ideas for curses

A young witch exploring the boundaries of her powers

Traps a wizard could set for a thief

Angels and Demons

Angels and demons

Angel as a human on earth

Jobs for angels and demons who fall in love

Physical impacts on a demon who keeps dying and coming back

Demons hunter prompts

Vampires

Human meets vampire 1

Human meets vampire 2

How to hide your vampirism from your family

Royal vampires

Vampire hunter gets bitten by a vampire

Reasons a locked up vampire would go after your character

Why a vampire and vampire hunter would work together

Vampire x werewolf forbidden love

Ghosts

Helpful ghost prankster prompts 1

Helpful ghost prankster prompts 2

Human and ghost solving mysteries together

1776 woman with supernatural abilities prompts

A medium whose friend is in a coma

Medium question Pt. 2: their fatal flaws

Battle Scenes

Writing Battle Scenes Tips

How to lead up to an action scene

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BURN PYGMALION!!! a better guide to romance writing prompts.

“ full disclosure, i am a monster. “

“ who could ever hurt you? who could be so cold? “

“ the price you pay for arrogance and a false sense of immunity is to face the wrath of a dying star. “

“ the years have been hard on this lonely heart, if you wanna know the truth. “

“ have you got a clue how long i’ve been pining for you? “

“ the awful truth has eluded you for too long. “

“ everything you know is all wrong. “

“ sucks to be an optimist in this listless dissolution. “

“ i hope you know that you can trust me, ____, it’s just me. “

“ i hope you know just how much i believe in you. “

“ i’d burn it all, i’d set the world on fire just to be with you. “

“ my internal compass is all askew. “

“ i’ll drink up every second i have with you. “

“ do you believe me when i tell you your light outshines every person i know? “

“ ____, you’re being followed by the ghost of what i can’t absolve. “

“ love is just a name for you to call me by. “

“ are you frightened of me? or the person you’re leaving behind? “

“ you know it sounds bad, but you love seeing me sad. “

“ you love someone you can shape, who has no will to escape. “

“ i ain’t worth a goddamn in someone else’s hands. “

“ you’ve got real potential, but you lack the essentials. “

“ you can see, i’m not a plaything. “

“ it’s fair to assume your intent’s to consume me. “

“ you think that you’re such a star. ha! what a fraud you are. “

“ the only gift you possess is your viciousness. “

“ every day, you’re a different person. “

“ ____, it’s such a pleasure to know the real you. “

“ you promised me you’d never be my torturer. “

“ for such a nice girl, you sure do talk like a freak. “

“ we’ve got hearts of children, but children can be so malicious. “

“ ____, you should’ve known better than to trust me. “

“ it follows me like a second self, a malignant shadow. “

“ i’m becoming one of them, one of you. “

“ you’re a hack, but it’s charming when you crack yourself up. “

“ everybody knows what you go to to keep yourself together. “

“ ____, you know, i only want to stay close to you. “

“ it’s a shame, nowadays all your friends have become such a drag. “

“ i’m just a dying fad. “

“ does it make you feel like you really made it when you leave me hanging like this? “

“ well, i’m not gonna make the first move if you don’t even give a goddamn. “

“ i know my survival is like, so boring. but i’ve got nothing else to give. “

“ if you came calling, ____, i’d come back every time. “

“ i hear you’re still living as an emotional vagrant. “

“ well my heart might be shot, but at least i’ve still got one. “

“ is your failure to connect just your way of protecting yourself? “

“ i have never been the type to go to church and i have never prayed for anyone but you. but i pray for you each night. “

“ it’s so bitter that it’s lost control of you and it thirsts for your destruction. “

“ i know you really must feel sorry for me because i just can’t have a normal heart. “

“ i get so deeply poisoned by love. “

“ if i can’t have you to myself, how can i be happy? “

“ can you hear me when i scream? “

“ you hijacked my mind, not that i want it back. “

“ can i have you? and can you be everything i need? “

“ i danced with you in a nightmare. “

“ will you remember me when our spirits scatter off? “

“ i just can’t stand the thought that a love as beautiful as ours could be forgotten. “

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" sentence starters

goldendorito:

ask-meme-addicts:

❝ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ❞

❝ The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. ❞

❝ We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ❞

❝ I have grown to love secrecy. ❞

❝ Your cynicism is simply a pose. ❞

❝ You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. ❞

❝ Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. ❞

❝ I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ❞

❝ A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ❞

❝ Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain. ❞

❝ None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. ❞

❝ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ❞

❝ There is nothing that art cannot express. ❞

❝ The harmony of soul and body—how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. ❞

❝ My heart shall never be put under their microscope. ❞

❝ It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. ❞

❝ I feel that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.” ❞

❝ In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. ❞

❝ Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. ❞

❝ People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. ❞

❝ Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. ❞

❝ Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. ❞

❝ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ❞

❝ Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ❞

❝ You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ❞

❝ Wherever you go, you charm the world. Will it always be so? ❞

❝ Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. ❞

❝ Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. ❞

❝ You like your art better than your friends. ❞

❝ I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. ❞

❝ Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. ❞

❝ Credit is the capital of a younger son, and one lives charmingly upon it. ❞

❝ Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ❞

❝ The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. ❞

❝ I can sympathize with everything except suffering. ❞

❝ Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different. ❞

❝ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. ❞

❝ You are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing. ❞

❝ I am always late on principle, the principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ❞

❝ I adore it, but I am afraid of it. It makes me too romantic. ❞

❝ Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ❞

❝ Passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. ❞

❝ If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me. ❞

❝ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ❞

❝ There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies. ❞

❝ I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ❞

❝ People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. ❞

❝ The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. ❞

❝ It often happens that when we think we were experimenting on others we are really experimenting on ourselves. ❞

❝ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ❞

❝ To be in love is to surpass one’s self. ❞

❝ Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. ❞

❝ Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; springtime for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies. ❞

❝ I shudder at the thought of being free. ❞

❝ I know you would never harm anyone I love, would you? ❞

❝ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ❞

❝ Of course, it is sudden—all really delightful things are. ❞

❝ The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ❞

❝ Unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality. ❞

❝ You are much better than you pretend to be. ❞

❝ I cannot understand how anyone can wish to shame the thing he loves. ❞

❝ When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. ❞

❝ The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich. ❞

❝ Being adored is a nuisance. ❞

❝ You are dreadful! I don’t know why I like you so much. ❞

❝ You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. ❞

❝ Love is a more wonderful thing than art. ❞

❝ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ❞

❝ The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. ❞

hades by supergiant games part i. sentence starters.

“ i’m leaving. try and stop me. “

“ let’s get you from that miserable place. “

“ you’ve got quite the fighting spirit in you there, i have to say. “

“ halt, ____. not one step further. “

“ come on, ____. haven’t we had more than enough of each other by now? “

“ you can turn back like a good little man, or i can send you home the painful way. what’ll it be? “

“ i told you nobody gets out of here, whether alive or dead. “

“ do not despair and hold to your resolve, ____. “

“ ever stubborn, aren’t you. “

“ it shall be exactly as you say, ____. your wishes are identical to mine. “

“ i lay the blame entirely upon you, yes. who else? “

“ everyone’s saying i went easy on you, ____. “

“ look, i’ve a reputation to uphold. you get past me again like that, you best go all the way. “

“ leave me be, and don’t think you’re going to be so lucky next we meet out there. “

“ i have to say you’re quite the specimen, and so, i’ve decided i shall aid you for the moment. “

“ hey, ____, if there happens to be something really horrible waiting for me beyond there, then… give me a sign, won’t you? “

“ oh there you are. just as i was beginning to think it’s been too long since i last killed you, ____. “

“ admit it, ____. you can’t stop thinking about me. “

“ don’t flatter yourself. i think of you in pain. and now there’s no need for the imagination. “

“ death is your only family. death, and i. best get accustomed to the both of us. “

“ what have i done, ____, to deserve such scorn? your lapse in judgement here is not so easy to forgive, yet easily punished. “

“ i never grew accustomed to the air, up here. it gusts senselessly whichever way it pleases. “

“ i’ll tear you limb from limb out there next time, you mark my words. “

“ oh, we have met, in a way. i know everybody, here, and there. “

“ the only one responsible for all of this is you. and i thought even you would have understood that by now. “

“ names are there to be forgotten, ____. “

“ no. no mournful speeches. now get out of my way. “

“ you’re running from yourself. though i can slow you down a bit i think. “

“ they say lots of things about me, ____; and they’ll tell you, in your dealings with me, ample caution is in order. let me show you why. “

“ you think me cruel, yet know nothing of cruelty. “

“ you want something to hate, then have it! “

“ you can’t be serious. you’re going to pretend as though it never happened? “

“ it comforts me to see how far you’ve come, ____. and i am confident that you shall make your way, eventually. “

“ a mortal’s life is short, and fraught with pain; is that truly the life you yearn for, ____? “

“ look, i’ve done some things that maybe aren’t great, but i am very, very sure i haven’t murdered anyone. “

“ life isn’t particularly fair, ____. nor death. i’d have expected you to know as much. “

“ blood needs be shed, and yours is going to suffice. “

“ i get the feeling we’re starting off on the wrong foot. “

“ i always wanted to kill a god. you’ll have to do. “

“ something the matter there, ____? you seem a little quieter than usual. dare i say even a little somber and remorseful, for some reason? “

“ what you’re attempting is impossible. you’ve seen what happens when you go too far. “

“ i’m not your practice partner, fool. “

“ you left, without so much as telling me goodbye. “

“ i left when it was necessary, ____. i thought of you and hoped you’d understand. i have to do this. “

“ if you won’t say it, then i’ll say it. goodbye, ____. “

“ you believe you are entitled simply to walk out of here. from your birthright and your responsibilities! but i am here to tell you, no. “

“ always happy to oblige. especially when it causes me to risk my station. to risk everything i’ve worked for. “

“ look here, ____, let me save you lots of future suffering: i happen to be the jealous type. “

“ do not anger me again, or i might come down and kill you there myself! “

“ i’m surrounded by my family, but i always feel alone. “

” i told you i don’t need your help here, ____. “

” you’re no god. “

” you’re nothing but a piece of trash. born into all of this. and you don’t even want it! “

” you seem to have me all figured out. and here i thought we were still getting to know each other. “

” i thought we had an understanding, _____, but this wouldn’t be the first time i was wrong about someone. “

” is this an offering of fealty or friendship, ____? “

” i guess there’s only one thing left to do. isn’t that so, ____? “

” i’d ask you to join me for a drink, ____, but i know you’ve a task ahead of you, and liquor dulls the senses. fortunately so, under most circumstances except yours. “

” perhaps you have defied me here in jest, though in such cases pertinent to my authority, you’ll find i lack a sense of humor. “

” you must see plainly, then, what your birthright amounts to: you’re no better off than any of us here. “

” it’s not that i’m upset or anything, here, ____, you know i’m not, but truthfully i am a bit annoyed, a little bit, and so, i got to send the message. “

” ____, i am getting awful sick of seeing your smug face, time after time after time. “

” have you given any thought to just… leaving me alone, and going back to wherever it is you came from? “

” why? why do you keep showing up? in spite of knowing that the outcome shall be just the same as how it always was? “

” why don’t you go get out of here if you despise this place so much? “

” you know what i like about you? the way you bleed. “

” never met a god that bleeds like you. red. like a worthless mortal. “

” come on! let’s bleed you dry. “

” thought i might find you all the way out here. although quite frankly i’m surprised you’re still alive. “

” even i’m beginning to fear you, i think. seems i don’t know you as well as i thought. “

” whatever you’re doing, it had better be worth it. “

” you’re stubborn. and you are going to get me in a heap of trouble before all is said and done. “

” a harsh winter is coming for you, ____. and i’m afraid you’ve brought it on yourself. “

” you’re funny. but you’ll break. they always do. “

” stranger, i am warning you: if you keep showing up like this, i’m going to have to find a new nickname for you. “

” you think you can just walk away from me? “

AU prompts: masterlist of lists

Okay so if you’re anything like me you see those lists of au ideas floating around and you like them but when it comes time to write something and you need an idea you have no idea what you tagged them as or if they’re buried somewhere in your likes so….have a list of some of the ones I’ve come across! This is updated with new lists and fixed links fairly frequently so check back here if you’d like more! 

also: there are a few lists that people have requested that i have not been able to find so if you know of one/write one, please send it to me. my messages/ask/submit are all open. WANTED: expectant parents/parents with newborns aus, historical aus

 (updated on november 6th, 2016) 

(current count: ~162 lists + 39 individual prompts)

themed:

super long list of college aus

more college aus

even more college aus

autumn aus

it’s really cold outside aus

meet-ugly

art school aus

femslash aus

they know each other but don’t know that they know each other aus

awkward first meeting aus

MORE college aus

airport related aus

fake married/dating trope

pub aus (here for halloween season)

royal aus

assassin aus

opposites attract

lots more under the cut, the post was getting unwieldy

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This is the thing I get asked about the most so here’s an honest try.

Sword Lesbian™

Bonus:

me, going from actively suicidal back to passively suicidal again: well, glad that’s over