Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #29
Happy Valentine's Day! Here is the latest round-up of prompts from my Tumblr blog. Write like the wind, people!
#198 She landed with a thud. And when she looked up at where she had come from, it seemed a very long ways to go. How would she get herself back?
#199 "You just have to suck it up and get through it," he said.
"But how? Because with ____________ happening, I don’t see how I can __________."
Fill in the blanks and use the sentences as the basis of a scene.
#200 What is your main character most afraid of? Write a scene with him/her experiencing that exact thing.
#201 As if February, with its constant snow ,wasn’t bad enough on its own, there was also all the hoopla leading up to Valentine’s Day. She hated it because it reminded her that she was single. And that reminded her of the horrible memory of…….
#202 The way we eat and cook tells a lot about ourselves—and our characters. Does your protagonist drive through McDonald’s for lunch every day? Or insist that everything she eats is organic and GMO-free? Does she like to cook or hate it? Who does she most often eat with?
Write about your main character preparing a meal and then eating it.
#203 Please help. Because ……
#204 Ah, love. What role does it play in your main character’s life? Does she have lots of it, long for more of it, or rue the day she ever fell in love in the first place?
That's it! Happy writing! Are you thinking about love this week? Writing about it?
J.D.
#202 Ah, that luncheon partner, the one you confide in, the one I do not have. What we say to them says so very much about us. That conversation with the underlying, not quite buried layer, that is almost honest. I so want to be a fly on that wall.