Prompt Fic

1. Inform

The troper described the trope, in which a type of Fan Fiction is produced.

2. Substance

The fanfic type usually consists of short, numbered "fills" in response to similarly numbered prompts, sometimes suggested by other authors. Usually of Drabble length, but sometimes as short as one sentence. Usually issued as answers for a "Prompt table" or a "bingo/theme challenge", from where the style of this article is created, based in the common way they were written.

Most "prompt fic" nowadays, however, are ordinary fics written as result of various types of challenges, ranging from competitions and exchanges to answers to blogs specifically generating situations that any enterprising fanauthors can adopt, and merely tagged accordingly to differentiate from fics written for more conventional reasons. As a rule, it's similar to the phenomenon of "inspiration" communities for writers in general.

3. Guide

The prompts themselves are usually the most general nouns as possible, such as "love", "kiss" "burn", and are not really connected to each other. "Tables" types of prompts tend to be themed but that's not seen as obligatory. More elaborate challenges have list of things and situations that must be included in the story.

4. Love

Since Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls, the prompts usually describe various aspects of the relationship of two characters within a fandom. Not unsurprisingly, the biggest generator of prompt fics tend to be Kink Memes, usually in the form of "five times a character did this thing, and the one time they didn't".

5. Clash

Sometimes several writers will share the same set of prompts and compete with each other, or simply apply the prompts to all their favorite fandoms.

Fandom in General

 * The style of prompt fic this article is based on is inspired by the 100 Prompt Tables community in LiveJournal, the Trope Codifier for the format adopted by fills in this type of challenge.
 * The other Trope Codifier is a Japanese themed challenge named 30 Kisses, and the 30 Kisses LJ community that got inspired by it.
 * The Kink Bingo is another of the main codifiers for Prompt Fic the way we know them today.
 * The tag for Prompt Fic in Archive of Our Own.

Anime and Manga

 * The stories in the Tiger and Bunny fic trilogy The Artificial Intelligence Principle each started as a Prompt Fic.
 * Pokédex One Shots is made up of a series of these.
 * The Naruto fic How to Win Friends, Influence People, and Start Your Very Own Secret Ninja Organization is written following a 100-table style.

Film

 * Some of the stories to be found in The Padme AUs.

Literature

 * Draco's inclusion into the core cast of the Dangerverse Harry Potter fic cycle was allegedly due to a prompt-style suggestion.