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Fun for Friday: WikiRoulette

| December 15, 2023

If you enjoy truly random writing prompts, check out WikiRoulette. Visiting the site will pull up a random article from Wikipedia. Sometimes, they’ll be for very detailed pages, while other times, there may be less information available. But they may give you an interesting person, a place you’ve never heard of, or miscellaneous other articles […]

Fun for Friday: Weird Writing Prompts from Wikipedia

| June 4, 2021

Sometimes, the best way to come up with a writing prompt is to look for something utterly strange or unbelievable, because truth is stranger than fiction. Electric Literature has collected ideas for stories or novels from weird Wikipedia articles. Even if you don’t find one on this list that speaks to you, simply the idea […]