Paranormal Romance writing prompt
The Masquerade Curse
At the town's annual masquerade ball, a masked stranger enchants you with tales of the supernatural. As midnight approaches, they reveal they are under a curse – to find true love before the last stroke of midnight or be doomed to vanish forever. With the clock ticking, you decide to help break the curse, but along the way, you find yourself falling deeply in love.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Make the obstacle something they both believe in, not a misunderstanding.
- 2Put them in close quarters they can't escape.
- 3Tell it from the point of view of the one who falls first.
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