Turn a Bad Job Into A Good Job Prompt

Write a story in which the main character has a bad job, but insists on only seeing the good in it! An example might be: your main character gets a job doing... telephone sales! What can this character "discover" in the job that is pleasing? Perhaps, it's the cute person in the pod next to them, perhaps it's the moment that someone doesn't hang up on them, or, maybe (if all else fails) it's that religious moment of escaping to the bathroom for a smoke!

prompt words:

tall
look
drop
flock
jacket
teen-age
fudge
hair loss
winter
aluminum
slip

microfiction prompt - just fine!

write a story max. 100 words, about how everything is perfectly fine! Dandy! Lovely! Just swell! Make sure that things in this narrative are NOT really swell, that the voice in the story is trying to hide the truth.

linked moments

write about at least 6 moments (like snapshots or postcards) and link them in a piece. Don't think too hard, and don't try to make them all mean too much. They will fit together better if you DON'T TRY. Here are some words to incorporate, if possible.

poverty
doll
couch
dust
debris
gender
scotch
ice cubes

My story of 4 linked flashes, One by One, up at Juked

The Fight for Normalcy!

When shit happens, we as humans fight the pain. We don't sit thee and wallow! No! We go into total denial! We look for any polestar, ballast.... our brain says "things are okay" and even tries to prove it!

So that is the idea in this prompt - some awful thing happens to your main character's sense of well being (and you as the writer should be clear about what that thing is, but you don't need to tell us in the story) and your main character FIGHTS TO KEEP THINGS STABLE. DO NOT let this character be tragic!!!

feeling "miffed" prompt! 200 words max.

okay, so i like the word "miffed" because it's a fairly outdated word. I want to bring it back to life, so i'm hoping to encourage it's reanimation through prompt work! Yes! Miffed lives!

The theme for a little story (how about 200 word maximum) for this prompt is feeling miffed, and here are some words to incorporate:

percolate
hang open
ultraviolet
delicacy
waves of applause
Gin-Fizz
hunch
undercoat

travelling and feeling untethered

your main character just WANTS TO GO HOME~

here are some words to bring in to a trip from hell story:

family
cultivate
close
own
tea
proud
serve
found
try
virtue
sweat
hungry
series
tiny
tug boat
hook

50 Word Story Prompt

Write a fifty-word story. The theme: Dependency.


dark
curtain
cut
fuss
teeth
worse
mean
dang!
disease
"hello"

pictures prompt!

Write pictures of yourself. Write as many "pictures" as you like and link them. Yourself at different times, different years, or all in one day. Here are some words to fight with... I mean, incorporate.

unchangeable
hand
light
wrong
damp
cheese
gym
rayon
powdery
clumsy
blaring
flash
drizzle
Sunday
sticky
twitch
sharp
fog
whiff
key
thermometer
tire
be-jesus
Geronimo!

Find Your Feathers Prompt

We all have feathers (well, not really). I have no idea what this means. I think it means that in a way, people want to fly, and sometimes show off, and sometimes disappear. That's the thought for this prompt. Find your feathers. Here are some words to try and incorporate:

dusty
shriek
cartoon
hungry
prettiness
commercial
jog
broke
indigo
abuse
lechery

My 50 word story up at BlinkInk!

This story is called Plump and Interesting. Talk about an unreliable narrator!

new prompt/ August 8th

Turn things around. A dynamic shifts. Seismic waves in a relationship, what that means to you. Vary sentence lengths dramatically.

smoke
shell
music
strain
billion
steak
golf
ding dong
clay
fish
hoist
ginger
are we?

more words to try and put in the batter

radiant
stomach
parakeet
aisle
mango
cakes
nonchalant
Mercedes
sweet
rice
jar
clammy
meat
water
light
stone
movie
tortilla
coffee

a lot of words - life through a scrim.

200 word max. Write fast. Use a photo if it helps. Use music, or write before you're awake in the morning... something that makes you less logical, less realistic. Imagine seeing life through a scrim.

calm
sandwich
seizure
cheap
wisp
hat
baggy
pink
spinning
bone
machine
horn
sun
slid
proper
swap
miracle

"California" - my tiny poem in elimae

Other contributors: Tim Jones-Yelvington, Josh Maday, Forest Roth, Ann De Witt, Robert Lopez, Evelyn Hampton, Len Kuntz, Marguerite W. Sullivan, Eliza Victoria, Rhoads Stevens, Jared Walls, Taryn Andrews, Christopher York, xTx, Rob MacDonald, R.L.Swihart, Tirumal Mundargi, Howie Good, Kimberly Ruth, Bruce Harris, Andrea Kneeland.

My Postcard Life Story on Michael Kimball's Site!!