Writing Prompts

Immediately after your death, you hear, "focus tester #503, thank you for participating in Earth. Remember: your feedback will likely be incorporated into future updates."

You have an exceptionally bad student in your class. Unfortunately, reality has invariably bends over backwards to make their wrong answers right.

Those who can’t do teach. An atheist leads a religious service and does a better job than the priest—to both their bewilderment.

You never got the memo that your tech support company was bought out by Wizard Craft Inc. and continue to dispense advice as usual.

You wake up in a strange place not knowing who you are, and unable to remember anything.

You have recently noticed that your friends will do everything you tell them. Is it a prank? A superpower? Doesn't matter. You won't let this opportunity go to waste.

You have a writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible moment.

When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world.

"I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today," you told the airline employee.

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It's our world, (and the events can be ordinary and boring), but the narration and main character's internal monologue are in the tone of a cyberpunk dystopia.

In the cultivation genre, pushing past limits (and neglecting rest) strengthens one's body, mind, and psychic powers. Recently, someone with anxiety and insomnia got isekai'd into such a world.

Spells require lifespan: more time lost generally yields more power. There's also skill. Anyway, some rich/noble fool just destroyed all the reasons one spell-caster might care about the first part.