Writing Prompt #347: Small Audience

Someone performs for an incredibly small audience on a regular basis.

Is it one person at the back of the coffee house? Is it an old lady in a nursing home? Is it one stranger on the internet who never comments but you see that they clicked through?

Writing Prompt #346: Container

Your character has a container and doesn't know what's in it.

Writing Prompt #345: Teaching Methods

Today, the little boy I tutor in kung-fu decided that instead of following normal procedures, it would be really fun to just punch me.

Normally, I take punches. He needs the practice and the satisfaction of contact, and as of yet he's not really strong enough to leave a bad bruise. But today was out of turn. Today was unruly. And this was a precedent I couldn't let him set.

So, I changed tacks. I told him it was time to strengthen his bone density. And every time he attempted to punch me, I whacked his arm out of the way, hard. We went back and forth for 2 or 3 minutes of frustration, until he was rubbing his sore little forearms.  (Admittedly, darting in to kiss his cheek while he was trying to punch me was probably too much of a toll on his ego.)

Write about a teacher who has to change methods. Is it choosing a gentler method to encourage a stumbler? A harder focus to maintain respect? Have fun.

Writing Prompt #345: Sides of Brightness (part III)

Pick a person, any person, and write out ten things that you like about them.

Writing Prompt #344: Sides of Brightness (part II)

Pick a task you really loathe.

Write from the point of view of a character who loves doing it.

Writing Prompt 343: Sides of Brightness

Pick someone who ticks you off.

Find something you like about him or her, and write about it.

Writing Prompt #342: Minimum Communication

You know that a huge part of good story telling is just leaving out the stuff that doesn't matter.

Have characters communicate using the minimum number of words.