r/WritingPrompts

Prompts and motivation to create something out of nothing

Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.

Community Stats

Subscribers: 19M
Content rating: SFW
Created: 2010-09-07
Posts per day: 75/day
Comments per day: 250/day
Discussion style: Balanced
Top post: 2,100 upvotes
Top 100 median: 700 upvotes
Competition: Low competition
Peak hour: 1:00 AM UTC

r/WritingPrompts is a SFW subreddit with 18.9 million subscribers, created in 2010. Posts average about 75 per day with 249 comments per day, making it a post-heavy community. Top posts this year scored up to 2.1K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 704. It's a low-competition community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 246 days ago. Browse 11 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.

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