We do not tolerate abusive comments, or indeed stories which are clearly directed at an individual. You may base your writings on real people, but we do not tolerate authors directly targeting others (whether app users or people outside the app), sharing personal information, or harassing others.
You are of course encouraged to give constructive criticism, but the aim of this should be to aid authors, not to tear them down.
You are welcome to express your personal opinions through your writing, and to create characters who reflect strong ideas. However, forceful opinions that deliberately instigate offense and distress in an unhelpful or inconsiderate way, may be banned.
Most of our prompts allow you complete freedom with genre and theme, but if you write distasteful or irrelevant content that is unrelated to storytelling then we may hide or remove your writing. Daily Prompt is first and foremost a fictional writing app; it is not your diary entry, social media feed, or personal blog.
Themes we do not condone include:
Sex and sexuality are important parts of life, and this can be reflected in storytelling; we are perfectly happy for you to write about this theme. However, inappropriate, vulgar, misleading or graphic sexual content – that we feel does not contribute to your story – may be privatised or removed.
We often see religious characters, settings and references in fictional novels. However, we do not tolerate the promotion or advertising of religious materials, particularly when it is not part of your story. Links to religious sites, prayer clubs, citing of religious texts (outside of your storyline), or any other direction to religious material is prohibited, and will be banned. Daily Prompt is a fictional writing platform where evangelising will not be tolerated.
Although you are welcome to write about political and social ideas in your writing, including sharing your own views, we do not tolerate the sharing of propaganda in any form. The vast majority of prompts direct fictional writing, so outright political advocacy will rarely be deemed appropriate on our platform.
We know aspiring writers want to promote their work, and that many of you have personal blogs or websites where you share your stories from Daily Prompt. Sharing your content is encouraged, however, we do have some advice about sharing image content outside of the Daily Prompt platform.