Prompts:What If

This is a list of all “WHAT IF” prompts on the wiki. All prompts must be given a short, descriptive title in a Level 2 heading.

= Prompt Type/Description = WHAT IF: A hypothetical situation (it may or may not be realistic) is shown, and you must write a story where this situation is actually true. Example: What if there was an app that could actually control the weather?

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A Week of Time Travel
What if you were able to travel through time, but only for 168 hours (1 week) and only once in a lifetime and got automatically teleported back to your house in the present after this time period was over? Write about where you would go and what you would do.

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Permabanned from Reality
What if you could get permanently banned from reality (like getting banned from an MMO)? Write about this happening to someone and that person trying to survive in a hostile alternate universe while trying to get their ban removed.

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Saving/Loading in Real Life
What if a character or entire society can save their personal life progress, either anywhere or at certain checkpoints like in a video game, and can revert to last save and only to last save whenever they choose to? Alternate option: they can revert to last save only when they die.

Switching Lives With A Celebrity
What if you could switch lives with a celebrity and do anything you want as that person (they can also do anything they want as you) for one week, once in a lifetime? Write about who you would switch lives with, what you would do as that person, what that person would do as you, and how other people or the world/society would be affected by this.

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The North Pole
What if you got to go to the North Pole and meet Santa Claus? Write about Santa having a problem that the main character needs to resolve.

“Troll” Gadget
What if you had a device that could directly manipulate the “properties” (position, age, etc.) of any object in the real world as well as “spawn” (summon) any animal? Write a story about someone using such a device to “troll” (prank) people (e.g. moving the TV remote around or summoning (“spawning”) squirrels near where people are walking their dogs).

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Waking Up In A Minecraft World
What if you woke up one morning to discover that the world around you has been transformed into a newly-created Minecraft world (your house and all of your stuff is gone and you have to find resources just like in Minecraft’s Survival Mode), and the only way to return to the “real world” is to defeat the Ender Dragon and go through the exit portal? Write about how you would get to the End and defeat the Ender Dragon.

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Your Younger Self’s Life is About to Change
You (as the author or as one of your characters) meet a younger version of yourself that is about to go through or is going through an important/life changing/defining moment in your lives.

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