Making it Special Prompt

Write a story about something that most anybody would consider average, but your main character considers special. This can be an animal, a person, a toaster... anything. Have your main character consider it to be very special, and let the story involve the main character's exaggerated adoration of this person/animal/thing.

Beatles Song Prompt

Pick any Beatles Song (I'm thinking of Lovely Rita, for my own). Take the theme of the song, and write a story from it. You can borrow words from the song, of course!!!

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.

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!

Avoiding Trouble Prompt

Try and use as many as you can. Vary your sentence lengths. Your main character will try and avoid trouble, yet be a magnet for trouble no matter what. Why is it that when we try and avoid something it seems to look for us?


prompt words:

dump
ice-cream
knees
ordinary
mood
spiel
ball
swell
applause
sweetheart
secret
boom-boom-boom

Prompt words: advanced

here are your words. this is your assignment. it looks impossible from here.


knees
ice-cream
focus
thumb
mumble
turkey-neck
fuckin'
schnapps
watery-blond
short-armed
buddy
guilty
flips

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

a little habit of not saying what they mean

ok so this character has a little habit of not saying what they mean, beating around the bush, being indirect. This character wants something very badly but can't ask for it.

Prompt words:

right
twist
center
ankle
shiver

Four Things You Never Want to do Again and one Thing You Love

write down four things you never want to do again, and one thing you wish you could do again strongly. Incorporate them into a story vaguely or quite directly - Slip in the thing you love somehow - let it make a wistful guest star appearance.

prompt words:

hoot
celery soda
jelly
bad
quiz
sting
twist
miniature
beard

the lost connection

Here's an idea. Your main character has a friend that she all of the sudden finds out... doesn't get her. After knowing this person for awhile, and having become close to this person, the M.C. finds out that the friend is totally not tapped in to who she is. It feels like there was never a genuine connection. Seems like a situation that is common in the internet age.


Here are some words:

road
edge
rabies
bloody
bunnies
rich
croak
view
alien
bedside
soup
turkey
ignore
blown

"The Old Familiar Way Of Being" Prompt

Create a character in a story or poem who is aware that they have "an old familiar way" of being. Let them feel something about that. How does that way of being define this character and his/her relationship with the self/with others/ an environment.

words to use or not use:

ruined
tongue
offer
shy
immediate
floor
broom
thrill
automatic