Writing Prompts

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Writing Prompt #1

Words I Never Said

Write a letter your character never sent.

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Writing Prompt #2

To A Friend

Your character finds a journal entry written by someone they know. Who is it written by? What happens to them? What does it reveal?

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Writing Prompt #3

Tales from the Realm

Write a short tale in the spirit of an old wives tale or a children’s storybook. Tell a story of a lesser fae creature and the lessons it learned or an adventure it went on. It could be a cozy bedtime story your character remembers being told in their childhood, or a story told by the campfire.

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Writing Prompt #4

Midnight Gospel

Scandal! Intrigue! Secrets revealed in today's exclusive tell-all! Write something that happened to your character in the style of a gossip rag.

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Writing Prompt #5

The Archivist's Dream

An Archivist is preserving memories inside an anthology that will be donated to a museum. Write about a happy, joyful or peaceful memory from your character that will form their submission to the anthology.

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Writing Prompt #6

Inkwater

Write about a troubling, painful or sad memory for your character. It can be in the form of a journal entry, a dream they had about it, or a conversation with a friend.

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Writing Prompt #7

Remaster

Rewrite a popular folktale or children's story with your character as one of the characters in the story.

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Writing Prompt #8

The Last Verse of Spring

Write a short story your character would enjoy. Maybe it's an action adventure for your boisterous champion? A sultry love story for your romantic mystic? A user's manual for a prototype for your artificer?

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Writing Prompt #9

Marginalia

Your character finds a book with someone's notes, arguments and doodles in the margins. The handwriting is unfamiliar, but your character starts to piece together the mind and life of the writer as they read on. Who is the writer? What is the book about? Maybe the notes belong to a lost loved one, or someone who once walked the same path as your character. What does your character feel as they read between the lines? 

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Writing Prompt #10

Paper Wings

⚠️This is a partner quest! Recruit another character and include them in your quest submission or do a collab.⚠️

Your character receives a letter from a stranger somewhere across the realm. Will you exchange letters with this fae? Get to know them? Write a series of pen pal letters between your character and a quest partner. What do your characters talk about? Their day to day lives? Or do they go deeper and talk about their hopes and fears and dreams?

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Writing Prompt #11

The Playwright

Write a short story in the form of a stage play or manuscript. Include dialogue, stage directions, and maybe even a narrator’s voice. Is it something that happened to your character, their favourite play, or a performance they wrote themselves?

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Writing Prompt #12

Chronicles of the Fae

Write a record from a historian, chronicler, or bard documenting an important event in Folkland’s history - perhaps not entirely truthfully.

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Writing Prompt #14

Dream Journal

Write a scene from a dream your character once had. Was it unsettling, symbolic, or just plain stupid?

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Writing Prompt #15

Lyric Revelry

Write a song, poem, ditty, or nursery rhyme from your character's hometown.