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ONC Prompts Through the Years

Are you wondering what prompts we've used in past ONCs?You can find them in this book as we gathered all the prompts used in the past installments. You may use these prompts as inspiration for any story you want to write - no credits necessary!Have fun!

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Dreamland ONC Club

Do you have an ONC? Wish to get feedback as well as discover other ONCs? Then stop by and join our ONC book club!

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Warriors 2024 ONC Book Club

Welcome to the 2024 Warriors Community's 4th Open Novella Contest Book Club! As with previous years, we will be inviting those participating in this year's ONC to come hang out and support each other! This is an excellent way to come together as a community while riding the waves of the ONC contest. Current Status: OPEN Current Assignment: Week #5

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Chimera ๐ŸŒˆ [ONC 2024]

2100. A mysterious ship, nicknamed the Chimera, appears in Martian airspace. It bears the symbol of the international space agency, the BASE, but there is no record of such a vessel. Word and rumour quickly spread.BASE investigator Leanne Ziegler is sent to inspect the ship and make contact with its crew. But the Chimera seems completely deserted, other than the imperious AI caretaker, Valkyrie. Down in the fledging Nerio colony on Mars, suspicion grows. The colonists are already turning against the ways of the BASE, creating their own Martian identity. This potential security threat could prove to be the final rift between Earth and Mars. Trying to keep control of the political situation, Nerio sends a mysterious and cold liaison, Ryan, to aid Leanne.But, in ten days, Mars will turn her guns on the Chimera. Leanne and Ryan must work quickly to discover the secret of the ship - and decide whether its fate under the Martian guns is deserved.[ONC 2024 entry]

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Novellas & New Roast: Tips from an ONC Winner

Whether it's your first time or your sixth time, writing a novella in 12 weeks isn't easy.As a 2021 ONC Winner and 2023 Honorable Mention, I would know. After years of participation and reflection, I have lots of advice to share on how I did it. Inside this guide, you can find everything from insider tips to timeline and planning suggestions to craft chats. So grab a cup, get your notebook, and settle in; it's time to start writing!copyright © 2022 elle chaika.

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Time Agent | ONC 2024

When Agent Seven Three is sent on his first mission to the past, to sort out a problem with the timeline, he expects to be in and out in a couple of days. Identify what is causing the unplanned divergences and stop it. Simple, right? But when he encounters reporter Jack Brown, he finds the situation is far more complex than he was led to believe. One of the timelines will have to go, but which one? And who decides? SCIFI / TimeTravel / LGBT / Romance

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Lie to Me Again | ONC 2024

In a twisted game of truth and lies, Yuki Kobayashi schemes to win the heart of her academic rival, Rhett Tudor, and the college scholarship with it. But if he sees through her deception, it's game over. ***Yuki Kobayashi is the pretty, popular girl at school who's always one wrong move away from having her crystal castle in the sky come crashing down. If her wealthy classmates find out that her parents died bankrupt, Yuki's reputation at Zenith High will be shredded to tatters. With lies as her foundation, Yuki is determined to make it through the next three years with her past safely buried and her future secure. When Era Wang, the queen of Zenith, offers a college scholarship and the coveted presidency of her club as the prizes for winning a simple game, it's an opportunity Yuki can't refuse. But sparks fly when Rhett Tudor, her childhood friend turned enemy threatens to defeat her in the game and expose her web of lies. As the lines between truth and fiction blur and the distance closes between her and Rhett, Yuki must decide whether the end justifies the means, even if she'll lose her only true friend and his trust again--this time forever.โœง Rivals to Lovers โœง Academia โœง GrumpyxSunshine โœงFor fans of K-Dramas like Doona! or highschool anime such as Kaguya-Sama: Love is War.โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€Ongoing Word Count: 17.7k

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Midnight || ONC 2024

After two opposites find comfort in each other and have an instant connection but can't be together, they collide again months later and get a second chance at love || August Walker and Jasmine Kelly are complete opposites, but both have closed their hearts to love. One night, August walks into a frantic Jasmine at midnight, who is fleeing her stalker ex-boyfriend. After walking her home, the two open their hearts to each other, act on their undeniable instant chemistry and spend the night together, except Jasmine leaves without a word before August wakes up to save him the hurt of her situation.Months later, and neither August nor Jasmine can get the other out of their minds. That is, until another midnight chance meeting. They both find that sometimes, love and fate work in tandem, and the best things can happen at midnight.***ONC 2024 - Prompts: 12, 24 and 27

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Open Novella Contest 2024

[#ONC2024] The Open Novella Contest is back for 2024 with shiny new prompts to get you out of your dragon cave. Once again, we are here to challenge you to create a legendary 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks!Your epic journey begins February 1st, so mark your calendars.โœจ

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Royally Second || ONC 2024

SEQUEL TO ROYALLY BUMPED || After a whirlwind of a year, Mila Abbott is finally enjoying her life as a princess and mother. As wife to the new first in line to the British throne, Mila is adjusting to juggling royal work and being a mother, and the papers following her every move.With the royal family finally in a peaceful state after losses, a wedding and a birth, the press is hungry for a story. Their target is the Prince and Princess of Wales, who have yet to produce another child a year after their surprise first. Britain is suddenly alight with rumours of Kai and Mila needing to produce a male heir, and the King of England is not happy. Little do they know, the Royal Family is full of secrets, all of them bound to bring more news. Just as Mila thought she was adjusting to her new whirlwind life, a second lot of dramas are coming her way.**ONC 2024Prompts: 99 [main], 14 and 52

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Pristine's Problem | ONC 2024

Pristine Marvin is a shy, introverted sophomore who stays in her comfort zone and lives an ideal unnoticed life. Almost flawless, her only weakness is her crush, Andrei Lawson. What happens when her obsession itself causes her to unintentionally commit a murder?Avril Alteiner is bored. And depressed. Having been raised in a reputable superhero household, he yearns to lead a typical life with a caring family. To make matters worse, he is relegated to the role of supporting character in his brothers' action sequences,because he is the failed product of his father's superhuman experiments. After suppressing the burning rage and yearning love for years, Avril has decided to make a bigger move. Will Pristine prove herself innocent of the murder that Avril's mastermind carried out in her name?

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Charmed| ONC 2024

Khloe Rose is a hardworking girl that can't catch a break. After carefully planning for weeks, her boss/bestfriend Christiana arranged a 2 week vacation to Las Vegas. Khloe wanted to use this time to relax and have fun, but a celebrity changed her vacation plans in hours. This celebrity filled her life around, but discovered some secrets from Khloe's past. Those secrets even resemble some of his. What are these secrets going to tell on this vacation getaway?

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Divided [ONC 2024]

After a near death experience, James Jones, or Jimmy to his friends, begins to see ghosts. While in surgery, he meets Henry Costa, a renowned ghost buster. Henry is dead, but he's about to become Jimmy's best friend. when he's recovering from his surgery, Jimmy learns his sister has gone missing, and may also be dead. Flying off to America, he sets out to find his sister.

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The Red String | ONC 2024

Three strangers. Two secrets. One key.Emma was perfectly happy being a driven, yet single, high school student. Until a love goddess decides that Emma needs a boyfriend- whether she wants one or not.

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Trouble in Paradise | ONC 2024

[Original Story] In the dreary, short days of late January, 1970, strangers arrive at the Paradise Hotel in Arkansas. Some are here for respite. Some for work. Some for trouble. The holidays may be over, but the murders aren't.

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The Gifted (ONC 2023)

What if having superpowers was not a gift but a curse? Would you still choose to use it?Aleksandra Leszczyล„ska works as an agent for a secret government organisation training people with superpowers - the Gifted - to work as a police support force. Working as a public servant to keep peace and order was always her dream, but she struggles as her gift is not as valuable for the field. Still, she refuses to be turned into back-office support. The situation changes when she rescues a cute Gifted from kidnapping and stumbles upon a deviant who dies in excruciating pain, consumed by his own power. After confirming that it's a fate awaiting most of the Gifted, every agent must question if they still want to remain in the organisation and keep using their powers. However, as deviants scheme to kidnap more innocent people and use them for their repulsive experiments, only the Gifted can stop them.

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The Second Princess (1)- ๐“ž๐“ท๐“ฌ๐“ฎ ๐“ค๐“น๐“ธ๐“ท ๐“ ๐“ฃ๐“ฒ๐“ถ๐“ฎ

(Completed)"Her brother Will, he seems a lot nicer than she is." Anna Heart, A.K.A Ella Scarlett. A.K.A The Knave of Hearts got trapped in the evil queens curse and this is what happens.... 1/3This is based on once upon a time and once upon a time in wonderland All credit goes to the writers I only own Ella and her backstory, plus a couple other characters

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Where Is Araminta Green? (ONC 2024)

Araminta was called a witch. Now she's gone. And the last person who saw her is making a podcast about her disappearance.***Only Murders in The Building x Wednesday***Two years ago, Araminta Green disappeared. She was last seen walking through a graveyard by her neighbor and classmate Jordan Thompson. The next morning Jordan was woken by the cries of Araminta's black cat, who has lived with him ever since.Jordan was a little scared of Araminta. With her pale-powdered face, black lips, spider-web eyeliner, and her love for tarot reading, it was no wonder that people speculated that Araminta was a witch.Although everyone else seems to have stopped looking for her, Jordan can't forget. When he is tasked with creating a podcast for a journalism course, he sees an opportunity to do his own investigation of Araminta's disappearance. With her cat as his co-pilot, he sets off to answer the question of what happened to the girl dubbed the town witch, even as his recordings constantly get disrupted by a cawing crow in the background. An ONC novella using prompt #81: The town's witch has gone missing and no one is looking for her but her two familiars - a crow and a black cat, plus the teen who has always been scared of her.

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Citrus | ONC 2024

After getting in a car accident a young reserved plant enthusiast must embrace reality in order to make amends with family and be there when his loved ones need him before it's too late. - - - When reserved and plant obsessed 14-year-old Oren Spalding flies down to Georgia to see his other dad for the holiday season, he could have never predicted the trouble that ensues. Still not certain he wants to see the other half of his old parental body, he goes anyway, scarcely embracing the experience. Everything changes when the renuinted family gets into a car accident. He finds his brother hanging to life by a thread and his head spinning like never before, literally. As Oren navigates this alien situation, tensions between he and his dad come to a crescendo. Forgotten words are remembered. Untold knowledge is revealed. He wants to pretend this is all a dream, but he can't deny the truth, of what was said, what was done, and what he can't change. He needs to accept the reality as it is, but life might not wait for him to catch up. ONC 2024 entry Main prompt:#1 - Sometimes words speak louder than actions.

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GUESS WHAT?  (ONC 2024)

A young girl is summoned by her grandmother on her deathbed, to share one specific story and present her with a gift. A love story with words that fill up all the blank spaces. She sets out to find this love story but does she have enough words to fight off the necessary evils? Only words can tell.

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Half a Lady || ONC 2024

Ever since she was injured in a terrible accident, Cordelia Williams has been turning heads--and not in a good way. The accident claimed more than her limb; it ruined her reputation and destroyed her dream of becoming a famous painter.Worried that her disability makes her a disgrace to her prominent family, Cordelia tries to find other ways to contribute to her family's legacy. But Cordelia's mother is determined to keep her hidden at their country estate--especially after a wealthy gentleman begins courting her beautiful sister. When Cordelia's father arranges her exit from high society, Cordelia is faced with a difficult decision: accept the quiet life her family planned for her... or overcome her fear of being seen. โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€This story is written for the 2024 Open Novella Contest and is based on the following prompt:Prompt 13: Every family has that one member of whom no one speaks, and that's you.

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landlost | ONC 2024

THE WORLD IS CORRUPTED. THE WORLD WILL START ANEW.โ”โ”โ”โ”Generations after Adam and Eve, evil runs through the veins of every human being on earth. A great Cleansing is coming, and all life will be wiped out. Na'el doesn't know any of this. Betrothed to the son of a lunatic, the duties of her as a woman pressure her more than any impending apocalypse. But when the rain starts to fall, her life hangs in the balance. Which will destroy her first; love, or the Flood?โ”โ”โ”โ”Updates every Monday

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Flickering Creatures | ONC 2024 | โ–

When Bryony -- herbalist extraordinaire -- goes missing, Bella knows one suspect stands above the rest. The village's aspiring second witch, Daphne, comes from a family that's tried to take Bryony down before, and Daphne seems determined to carry on that legacy. For someone who's always been terrified of Bryony, she's a little too keen on looking into the disappearance. There's just one problem. Bella's insufferable fellow familiar thinks the kid is innocent... and he's been right about worse things before. If Daphne herself is to be believed, clues on the disappearance lead a whole lot closer to home than Bella would like. As the evidence mounts, Bella must choose to either stand by her values and the woman who raised her, or seek what might be a truth she would rather not uncover.Prompt #81: The town's witch has gone missing and no one is looking for her but her two familiars - a crow and a black cat, plus the teen who has always been scared of her.โ–โ–โ–Written for Wattpad's 2024 Open Novella Contest. Updates on Sundays.Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

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Small Town Hero - #ONC 2024

He might become the next small town hero with stars in his eyes... and a monster in his veins. Good has a dark side. Evan Mack's football coach will do anything to win. He has the formula for success that took last year's starting quarterback, Xavier Rhodes, to the state championship and beyond. If Evan participates in the coach's secret fitness and diet program, money and fame, and even his high school crush, the girl of his dreams, Lexa Thorn, will be his for the taking. By winning all the big games, he could become a small town hero. But having your dreams come true, comes with a price, a dark side. Austin Campbell, this year's starting quarterback was found dead under mysterious circumstances, opening up the starting position for Evan. Rumors circulate that his death wasn't an accident as the police reports claimed. There could be a murderer lurking in their small town. Evan's greatest fear is monsters in the dark. The last thing he expects is to become the Monster in the dark. Problem is, that monster wants out, no matter how hard he tries to keep it locked in its cage. And when it comes out, no one is safe, not even the girl of his dreams, or the other girl-next-door with the glasses and straight A's who happens to think the world of him. Open Novella Contest Story Vampire/WerewolfPrompt #33. Your greatest fear is monsters in the dark. The last thing you expect is to become the Monster in the dark.Small Town Hero Cover Credits© <a href='https://www.123rf.com/profile_virtosmedia'>virtosmedia</a>, <a href='https://www.123rf.com/free-images/'>123RF Free Images</a>

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ONC Journal 2023

As per tradition, a journal for this ONC.

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