Writing Prompts for October 6th, 2012

Bad Mornings—Everybody has them; how do you handle them? On those mornings you have to get up and wrestle yourself out of bed, how do you—how does your character wrestle to get up and perform their daily toil?

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Appearances—how important are appearances to you or your character? Does a first impression tell you everything you need to know? If not, what tells you about a person?

Optional: Tell a story about yourself/your character of choice that involves appearances (or how appearances can be deceiving).

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Day in the life of: Using whatever format is preferable, tell a story about a typical (or not so typical) day in your life/the life of your character.

Optional: Tell multiple stories!

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Following prompts swiped from writing.tumblr.com:

Write a letter to future students in a history class. Explain what it is like to live now.

What would you be interested in knowing if you were them? Daily routines? What houses are like? Food? School? You should consider how much they'll know about things you take for granted. Will they know what cars are? Will they have just heard of them without actually getting to experience them? Telephones? Malls? Books? Will some of these things be forgotten in a few hundred years? Make sure to explain anything that might be unknown to them.

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“Never underestimate the lives of old men sitting on park benches.”

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You are a leaf and fall is only a few weeks away. Explain how you feel about this.

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Explain the difference between dressing like a rock star and dressing like a pop star.

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You've been commissioned to write an accurate, thorough history of dragons by someone who believes they really existed. Make it up.

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If you got one whole day of being immortal*, what would you do with it?

*being “immortal” means you cannot die or get hurt.

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If you hear that someone has good style, how do you imagine they dress? IF you hear someone has good taste, what do you imagine they are in to? What would immediately tell you that someone you just met has style and tastes that your expect? How much does taste and style matter to you?

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You have just discovered evidence [undeniable, 100% accurate] that everyone else is an alien. Describe your day tomorrow.

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Planet for sale.

Humanity has decided to change planets and needs to sell Earth. You've been hired to put it on the market. How do you advertise it and what's the price tag? Make a flyer announcing the sale. If you'd like, make similar flyers for other planets in the solar system or a made up planet of your choice.

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Follow Jesse Walker's Instructions:

“Someday this too will be the Old Weird America. Try to appreciate it now, like a time traveler.”

Decades from now when future people look back on this time, what will they think? What in particular will make this time old and weird? How can you appreciate it like a time traveler?

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Tell this story: “There it was, as peaceful and mysterious as s/he remembered: The Rift. The place where it all began.”