Writing Prompt #392: Cliche Redeemed

Take a cliche, and make it actually work.

Kissing in the rain? The waiter takes people for a couple? Work with it.

Writing Prompt #391: Bad Timing, Good Thing

Someone says something at an inappropriate time. How does it work out?

Writing Prompt #390: First Time

Someone is doing something for the first time. Using a cash register? Kissing a boy? The first time at anything is hard.

How does another character help them, or fail to help them through it?

Writing Prompt #389: Excuses, Excuses

I'm...four days of no-blog late. That is horrible. Also, I was fifteen minutes past my curfew tonight. And that is ALSO horrible.

(And I do apologize but you don't care so let's get to work.)

Your challenge today is: make a character break a promise. Now find the excuse that makes that excusable.

You were late the baseball game because a pterodactyl attacked you and you lost your right arm? ...excused.

Writing Prompt #388: Dialogue Snippet #1!

Today I yelled this across a grocery store and it caught my imagination.

Write a scene where SOMEONE says: "This will never happen again."

Writing Prompt #387: Reserve

Your character must hold back feelings or impulses.

Avoiding PDA? Keeping a secret? Propriety in addressing a monarch?

For me, this is really hard. Everything I think goes across my face. I'm so used to everything I want to do being perfectly appropriate that not diving into the arms of the one I love is really difficult, no matter whom we're in front of.

But I'm learning that it's alright to have secrets, and that there's no cowardice in occasionally holding back. As long as there is someone you tell everything, and a time when you don't hold back at all.

Happy writing.

Writing Prompt #386: Believe Me

Today (as of writing this, not publishing it), I brought pizza to a friend's house.

I called ahead to let him know I was bringing pizza. Then I discussed it with him on Facebook. All was jolly and fine, and he bid me a good day.

And then I showed up with the pizza, and he met me at the door with this bewildered look of wonderment on his face and stared and said, "...you actually brought pizza."

"I called ahead. I told you I was bringing pizza."

"Yes, but I didn't think...why would you bring me pizza?"

I'd made a promise, but it hadn't quite sunk through.

Your character makes a promise. Why does the person not believe them? What will it take before they trust?