#1 Weekly Bad Writing Prompts

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#1 Weekly Bad Writing Prompts - Beehaw

Welcome to the first (unofficial) Bad Writing Prompt day of the Beehaw Writing instance! I’ve been reading a bit on the instance, and I agree with the consensus that we’re going to need something weekly to bring and keep a community together. So I’m doing my part! Wait, what do you mean by bad writing prompts? Partially inspired by this post [https://beehaw.org/post/516912] here. “Don’t try to prove you’re a good writer, you’ll never write anything. Try to prove you’re a bad writer and you’ll write everything.” So, here’s my general idea. For now, I’ll be posting 3 different things. - Bad Character Ideas - Bad Setting Ideas - Bad Plot Ideas For you to mix, match and use as you please! Again, I’m writing this off the cuff and with 20 minutes before work, so apologies for the short post, but without any more delay, here’s what I got for you all! Bad Character Ideas - The disgruntled younger sibling of the “Chosen One” - A food critic who actually suffers from no sense of taste, getting by on charisma and faking it alone - A magical anime girl who has a strange hobby and obsession with taxidermy (Thanks to my coworker for giving me this one haha) Bad Setting Ideas - Cowboys and digimon. How that works I have no clue. Just. Cowboys and digimon combined. If you do this you have my eternal gratitude. - Told entirely through the lens of the endless blurb you skip before a recipe. - An office building set within purgatory itself. Bad Plot Ideas - The main character has traveled back in time to kill Hitler. Little do they know is Hitler is now a skilled killer of time travelers. - A love story where two people are fated to be with one other, lest the world end. They hate each other. - A heist on the Vatican vault. Alright, I’m running out of time, and need to skip off to work. Hope to see some posts, and remember to make it awful. I want some real schlock and cringe. Feel free to use all of the prompts, or none of them! Your reward will be nothing. Ciao ciao!

I think I might have misunderstood the exercise, but I love the idea so I wrote something based on the magical girl taxidermist thing and the office. There is no hitler or vatican. I want it even stupider!! I'm open to stupid suggestions.

Princess Shining Knight, whos name was Rei, and her army of re-animated beast creatures approached the flaming silhouette of an AT&T building. The city around it smouldered, ash covered ruins settling on the surrounding car parks and corpses.

She wore a shining, strawberry pink suit of armour with glass wings and a winged headpiece. At her side was a heart-shaped staff that all the creatures eyed with scorn and fear. It was cute stupid looking, but it was deadly and powerful. It was the source of Princess Rei's power, and their nightmare existence.

All the creatures were inhabited by the spirits of enemies she had slain with her surprisingly deadly magical heart-shaped staff. They had to loyally serve Rei until her death, or be banished to non-existence. Some creatures had already offed themselves to escape her insufferable cheerful attitude, but most preferred existing.

Princess Rei was rather reckless, so the whole beast army secretly hoped she would make a mistake sooner or later. She was always smiling and befriending people she met in the wasteland, she always left people confused by how clean and happy she was.

She battled every sorcerer and beast she came across, and used her magic to put the bodies of the slain monsters together again - bringing them back to life by singing a prayer-like pop song over their reassembled corpses. Villagers always ran in terror, even after she saved them- especially now that her undead army of reanimated beasts was growing so large.

Her army of beasts all conpired at night, while Princess Shining Knight slept in her pink sleeping bag. They gathered around a fire, talking as best they could, planning ways to off Rei - so far they had not succeeded. They couldn't do this while she was awake, you see, the magic prevented them from doing anything besides helping her.

One spirit, a former sorceress Evelyn, trapped in the body of a mangled monkey-bat, had started giving her advice lately. Advice which sounded kind but in fact was all part of a plot to kill off the strawberry armouered princess.

That is why they were hear, at the burned out shell of a former AT&T building. The sorceress had somehow managed to get word to her old partner, the Vampire Prince Wolaf. He hid in wait, hiding behind a dilapidated billboard.