Share your prompts with the community

You can write the prompts other people write from. Two of our surfaces take prompt submissions: competitions and the exercise library. Both run every submission through moderation, and both credit the writer when a prompt goes live.

Find them in one place: open /community and choose the Share prompts tab. Each tile takes you straight to the form.

Suggest a competition prompt

This one is free for everyone. Pitch a prompt for a community competition. A moderator reviews it, and if it runs, you are credited as the prompt author on the live competition page and you earn XP.

What to send:

• The prompt. Ten characters or more. Keep it open enough that a lot of writers can find their own angle in it.
• A title (optional). A short name for the theme.
• A note (optional). Anything the reviewer should know.

You can have up to five open suggestions waiting for review at once. The “Suggest a prompt” tile opens the same form you would find on the /competitions page.

Contribute an exercise prompt

Free for everyone too. Add a prompt to the exercise library, the pool other writers draw from when they practice. Approved prompts join the rotation across the app.

The form lets you choose which kind of prompt you are adding (a scenario, an opening line, a character pairing, and more), tag it by writing type and difficulty, and leave a note for the reviewer. A moderator reviews each one before it joins the library.

You can track every contribution you have made, with its review status, at the bottom of the /exercises/contribute page.

How review works

Both forms send your submission through the same checks. A first automated pass screens for anything that breaks the rules. Everything else lands in a moderation queue for a person to read. You get a notification when your prompt is approved, and for competition prompts you are credited by name once it goes live.

A few things make a prompt easy to say yes to:

• Specific. A prompt with a concrete situation beats an abstract theme.
• Original. Write your own, rather than copying one you have seen elsewhere.
• Inclusive. Write something writers of any background can pick up.