Writing Prompt Shared On Reddit Inspires An Emotional Story About Lies With An Amazing Twist

Imagine a world where each lie makes a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper the scar.

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• August 21, 2020

Writing requires exercise, and there is a belief that writers must write every day to stay in shape, even when they don’t feel like it at all. Writing prompts help writers to do that – keep in shape, and often give them inspiration for a great story or a novel.

Writing prompts are short sentences, thoughts, single words, pictures… basically anything that contains ideas or inspiration. They can become a base that a writer can use later. He can expand it, throw in more ideas…

They can be a great exercise and spark a creative process. A great example was posted recently. It all started with a writing prompt shared on Reddit, later reshared on Imgur. And the story that created around that prompt will leave you speechless.

This powerful story about lies started with a writing prompt shared on Reddit.

This great writing prompt didn’t go unnoticed, and soon a story emerged – we get to know the main character and some of his lies and scars

And we meet Joe, a man without scars, a unicorn in that world. Naturally, everyone liked him and wanted to hang out with him. Who wouldn’t want to be friends with someone they could trust?

But things changed when people saw Joe’s scar. It was huge and deep, like it was made by one single lie told many times.

And the climax of the story:

Damjan