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WritingPrompts-Filtered

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Hey guys, I'm a 16 year old student, and I'm trying to improve my essay writing skills. Don't worry, I won't plagiarize anything on here, I'm just interested to see the different approaches to writing an essay based on the topic 'Power', and may try to incorporate some techniques I see into my future compositions should I find them useful :) thanks in advance!	[WP] 400-500 words, Power	[ " Sometimes, I just wish for an end. This madness. This war. I just want to give up. \nYou see, this war has been raging for 15 years, and all I ever remember is bloodshed. Tears. \nMy whole family is gone, and I have lost every one of my friends. I am alone.\nAll I wish for in this world Is for it to be a pe...	5
THE REWARD: I present you with various pictures of babies laughing. edit: the real [reason](http://i.imgur.com/vk5au.jpg) for this prompt	[WP] THE CHALLENGE: Any situation where the word "Bubbles" (in reference to soap bubbles, not a proper noun) can be said with anger or resentment.	[ "\"This is it!\" I exclaim. \"This is the moment we've all been waiting for!\" I dash up the steps to the podium and grip the microphone with intensity. \n\n\"I know you've all come here to see something incredible. When Orange Technology rolled out the first uPod, fans were ecstatic to see what we would come up ne...	12
Write a short story and include as many of these words (at least 6... bonus points if you use more) as possible: raven, dreadful, sacred, robust, ascend, phrenology, monument, saga, voluptuous, vein, crimson, ribbons, and insidious. The winner will be determined by me, regardless of vote count (though that may play a small factor in my points scale.) You have until Thursday October 11th at 11:59PST to submit a small story. I will determine the winner then and you will get a month of Reddit gold. Happy writing! (Credit to my wife for this prompt idea.) Just reply to this with your story! --- Two winners chosen. One by me (philsmith24457) one by my wife who came up with the prompt BigGUNSfowler. Thanks to all who entered. :)	[WP] 1 month Reddit gold writing contest!	[ "There was little to do but ascend the cracked stone steps to the monument. An aged carving at the bottom has never been deciphered (the meaning lost in time), scratched deeply into the corroded green surface. Wind blew over the short grass. A robust day had been obscured by overcast, and the place was quiet. Ribbo...	10
But make it a curse instead of a blessing.	[WP] Give your protagonist the one talent you've always wished you had	[ "Finally, he beat that fucking water level. Everyone hated water levels. Why the hell did the guys who made the game even put them in?\nIt felt as if he hadn't left his couch in days. It was only the first week of summer vacation, and he was heading to high school in a few months. Everyone kept saying that these we...	2
It can be a house, a castle, a city, a tree, another planet. Convince me to move there.	[WP] Describe home, and make me want to live there.	[ "Vines coated every vertical flat surface they could find, nestling into nooks, niches and crannies so tightly it seemed as though engineers had meticulously designed them that way. When the vines had found a proper grip, they reproduced frivolously until loaded fully with various types of fruits and berries. The v...	6
Include the following words in your story: lackadaisical, rhythmically, sinister, perturbed.	[WP] Your character finds a stack of videotapes in her new house. The tapes document the previous owner, a very peculiar man, doing some weird things in the basement..	[ "\"Why did I ever buy this house?\" Sue said looking up and down the ramshackle abode. She had just moved back to her old home town and gotten a new job as the assistant director of marketing for a software company. She loved the idea of moving back home at first, spending more time with her parents and old frien...	2
Write a fantastic political summit- Ala Dungeons and Dragons/Lord of the Rings. It could be a peace summit ending a war, a call to arms against a common foe or you name it.	[WP] Fantasy Politics	[ "Brothers and sisters, hundreds of years ago, the land upon which we all now stand was sterile with the salt of corruption and greed. The people, elf and human and dwarf and khobold, and all the rest, were so comfortable in the fruits of love and innocence that had evolved through hundreds of thousands of years tog...	8
Write the steamiest story you can think of. All characters must be over 18. It can include any amount of people or any gender you want. The rest is yours have fun EDIT although I like the steam stories that is not what I ment what I ment was sexy stories	[WP] Steamy Story	[ "the door barely closes before it starts. Her speed combined with intoxication with the drinks makes things much more surprising then they really are. Her hands both grip him like a vice and she nearly headbutts him. Actually she does headbutt him as shes a little unsteady because of her drinks and the speed of ...	4
You see something incredible while walking down the street. The strange part is, nobody else seems to see it! What the hell is going on here? ----- 150 words precisely! Have fun!	[FF] Tunnel Vision (150 words precisely)	[ "It wan’t something he’d planned – but for Matt, being alone on ‘Lovebahn’ was something new. Again, it wasn’t something he’d planned, but his girlfriends had always avoided it – all 2 of them. But, now, at 10 am, the street was changed. Harsh sunlight glinting off the shiny benches and shopfronts; Matt again notic...	3
Content can be anything. I am willing to change the prompt if people want slightly different guidelines for this. Also, I assume that many of you will know what an onomatopoeia is, but for those who don't, it is a word that sounds like what it is describing (examples include boom, hiss, pow, moo, woof, etc.)	[FF] At least four onomatopoeias, in 150 words or less	[ "The sails whuffled gently in the lackluster wind, very nearly in time with the lub dub of my heart. The doldrums I had been warned about; that I had snerked at, had engulfed me. There I sat with the pontoons gently thunking against the hull of my ship with a hypnotic rhythm. Slowly, I raised the binoculars to my e...	4
I meant to type seceded. Sorry.	[WP] Your state/province/etc has succeeded from your country. Write an article about its separation.	[ "A few years ago, I woulda never thought that Idaho would actually try to secede from the other States, but there came a time when I knew it was necessary. All the people ‘round us were tryin’ to force their fancy new ways upon us, with their robots that could make you dinner and cars that could drive for you. It j...	5
Have you ever woken up so early that it seems like the entire world is asleep? Calm and quiet. You seem of have the world to yourself. Not everything else is resting through. What is happening while world slumbers?	[WP] While the world sleeps	[ "Light from the nuclear activity traveling at the fastest known speeds for near 8 minutes, 92 million miles, striking the giant rocky sphere circling the earth, redirecting to go 230,000 miles through the crack in my blinds, directly into my eye woke me in the middle of the night; as the light from the full moon pe...	5
	[WP] "Ape-perpetrated murders up. Homelessness down."	[ "This is being written in a rush so there may be typos.\n\nBig Barnaby stared down the long dark tunell, the air cold from moisture. He mindlessly scratched his beard to relieve a fear that built in his gut. To his right scratcher and gnasher were twitching, hissing, and almost frothing at the mouth. Nobody had off...	2
Craigslist has a feature called Missed Connections. You can take out in hopes that the person you missed will see it and perhaps you'll reconnect. These ads often describe the poster, the person with whom the connection was missed, and when/where the connection occurred. Today, someone felt they missed a connection with you. Write the ad they took out in hopes of reconnecting. Feel free to give it any twist you like, or none at all, as long as it's under 200 words.	[FF] Missed Connections	[ "It was about 4:00 in the afternoon, I was passing by the Berklee media center. You were the skinny guy with the Kurt Cobain hair and beard thing going on. I was the little Japanese girl who tried to catch your eye while I was walking by. You were really focused on laying down that drum track, but not focused enoug...	3

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WritingPrompts Filtered Dataset (LitBench Decontaminated)

Dataset Description

This dataset contains filtered and decontaminated WritingPrompts from Reddit, specifically processed to remove any overlap with the LitBench test set. This ensures clean training data for language models without test set contamination.

Processing Statistics

Generated: 2025-09-12

Dataset Size

Original dataset: 265174 entries
After decontamination: 199,248 entries
Contamination removed: 63159 entries
Retention rate: 75.14%

Contamination Analysis

Total contaminated entries: 63159
Contaminated by post_title only: 12123
Contaminated by post_text only: 49671
Contaminated by both fields: 1365

Story Quality Filtering

Total comments processed: 644817
Valid stories kept: 524110
Non-stories filtered: 120707

Dataset Structure

Each entry contains:

post_text: The original writing prompt text
post_title: The title of the prompt (often contains [WP] tag)
comment_texts: List of story responses to the prompt
num_stories: Number of valid stories for this prompt

Decontamination Method

This dataset was processed using multiple contamination detection methods:

Exact matching: Direct string comparison with LitBench prompts
Substring matching: Detecting if LitBench prompts appear within WritingPrompts
Reverse containment: Checking if WritingPrompts text contains LitBench prompts

Source Datasets

Original source: euclaise/WritingPrompts_preferences
Contamination reference: SAA-Lab/LitBench-Train

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("RLAIF/WritingPrompts-Filtered")

# Access a prompt and its stories
example = dataset['train'][0]
prompt_title = example['post_title']
prompt_text = example['post_text']
stories = example['comment_texts']

Intended Use

This dataset is intended for:

Training creative writing models
Fine-tuning language models for story generation
Research on narrative structure and creative writing
RLAIF (Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback) experiments

Limitations

Stories are from Reddit and may contain informal language
Quality varies as these are community-contributed stories
Some stories may reference Reddit-specific culture or memes
Decontamination focused on LitBench; other test sets not considered

Processing Code

The code used to process this dataset is available at: synthLabs

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@dataset{writingprompts_filtered_2024,
  title={WritingPrompts Filtered Dataset (LitBench Decontaminated)},
  author={RLAIF Team},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/RLAIF/WritingPrompts-Filtered}
}

License

This dataset is released under the MIT License. The original Reddit content follows Reddit's terms of service.

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