The Sorry Prompt

Your main character feels very sorry about something, but there is no way to apologize. It seems to follow him/her like a small dog. Your main character wants to NOT FEEL SO SORRY ANYMORE. What is he/she sorry about? Maybe he/she said something unwise to somebody a long time ago. Let this feeling color the story.

Prompt words:

whisper
accidental
beer
bowl
hoard
TV tray

Troublesome Beauty

Write a piece that has something to do with the issue of physical beauty. Perhaps your main character is beautiful, or worships someone who is, or something... Maybe the character thinks about beauty too much (gee, that would be unusual in THIS culture!) Let the obsession with beauty get you character into trouble!!!

Here are some prompt words to possibly incorporate:

coo
change
feed
champagne
opal
bus
hip
cap
tender
cinder

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!!!

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!

Why Are You Telling Me This?

Write a situation in which someone is telling your main character something they don't want to know, don't want to hear about. The focus of the story will be the aftermath, trying to get the thing the person told them to feel less oppressive.

some prompt words:

nighttime
fist
shiny
frame
married
crucial
pocket

My story, "Wrappers", up now at The Pedestal