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It’s April, so I thought we’d try something different. A prompt that will carry through this entire month. Each week you’ll get a photo of a different character as your prompt. Think of it as a piece of a puzzle. All four characters will be part of the same story each playing a part in…
We’re in the last month of the year so I thought we’d try photos prompts for the month of December. This first one features a wolf. Does your character see it while he or she is hiking? Are they planning to save it? Does it lead them somewhere they never expected? Do they maybe see it as…
This week’s prompt focuses on a character who has a cold. How do they react…maybe they’ve got something important to do and are too sick to get out of bed. Maybe they take a new to them remedy… Perhaps they’re only pretending they have a cold to get out of doing something they hate.…
I thought we’d use the next four days for some lines in stories. This first one can appear anywhere in the story- “Now’s not a good time.”
We’re now in the third week of the daily prompts. I thought we’d start with a photo prompt and here it is-
Today’s prompt is about two characters who decide to go on a hot air balloon ride.
The prompt today is all about eavesdropping-
Not sure if we’ve ever had this type of prompt before but this week it’s the title that’s the prompt. The title of your story is Dirty Hands. Who has the dirty hands? How did they get the dirty hands? Maybe dirty hands is a name of a café, a town, code word or someone’s password… Lots…
Continuing with the theme of hobbies. This week’s one is golf. Your character might be heading out to the course for the first time. They might even be buying their first set of golf clubs. Perhaps they’re taking golf lessons. What happens? Do they discover a hobby that they love? One that frustrates them?…
This week I thought we’d try a line that occurs in the middle of your story. And that line is… It happened once before. It could be either part of narration or a character’s dialogue. Have fun and happy writing.
