Writing Prompt #421: Blunt

Someone says something very bluntly.

Insults are easy. Can you find an awkward compliment?

Writing Prompt #420: Awkward Lecture

A student knows more than the teacher.

A student knows a LOT more than the teacher.

What now?

Writing Prompt #419: Dialogue Snippet #2!

Write a scene that includes the words, "Because he's leaving."

Do you like dialogue snippets? Would you like more of them? Would you like to comment and tell me what you'd like?

Feedback is welcome. Till then, I'm still throwing chum to the invisible internet whales and shall assume no one cares.

Writing Prompt #418: Dread

Yesterday, I was running through a parkinglot at full speed, and I sincerely thought, "Maybe I will be hit by a car and won't have to face these people and do this."

I did what I knew was right and brave. I survived.

Write a scene where your character does something he or she has been dreading.

Writing Prompt #417: Shifting Contexts

Show the difference in how people interact with each other in different places.

I interact with my boyfriend very differently at my house than I do at his, and we interact very differently in restaurants than we do on sidewalks.

Sometimes, when you're with a friend in a new context, it's hard to know how you fit and what your role is. Sometimes you need the other person to take the lead and sometimes they don't.

So, write. ^-^

Writing Prompt #416: Helping the Noob

It's someone's responsibility to show a new person the ropes.

Writing Prompt #415: Crowd-Sourcing

Someone draws strength from a group of people.

Writing Prompt #414: Dowager Heroine

I got to spend a little more than an hour basking in the wisdom of an artist who was a widow.

She had so much to share and to teach, so many experiences and dreams to draw like gemstones from her pockets, and then every other moment, she mentioned him. 

She was wise, she was stable, she was strong, she was very much a part of this world, and she was living without her best friend. Half of her was somewhere else. She could talk about him, and she could teach, and he wasn't there.

Your challenge: Someone who isn't present is very important. They're influencing everything, but they're not here and they're not coming back.

Writing Prompt #413: I'm Not Who I Was

A person enters an environment where they are known for behavior and characteristics that no longer define them.

A high-school reunion? A family reunion? The dusty cowboy coming back to the small town he saved from werewolves ten years ago in a blood-bath that will be retold for centuries till he's only a legend?

How do you fit in when people know you as someone you're not?

Writing Prompt #412: Public Displays

Someone expresses their affection in public.

Is this a place and a culture where that's accepted? Is the other person chill with this? Has this ever happened between them before? What are the results?

Writing Prompt #411: Plans for the Future

People make plans for the future. Not the two-weeks-from-now future; the far-off, if-we-live-that-long future.

Writing Prompt #410: Short Date

Two people have only a short time to see each other. Friends, betrothed, business partners, whoever they are- how do they make the most of it?

And how do they face the impending separation?

Writing Prompt #409: Catching Up from Wonderland

Here's a situation I was in recently:

Communication with someone (or a group of someones) has been cut off for a span of time, and in that span, LOTS has happened. Lots that is big and life-changing and self-changing and world-shaping has happened. And now your character has to catch up these people that are important to her.

"Hi, mom. Remember that friend? I'm engaged."

"Hi, Grandpa. I'm a supervillain now."

How do you say this? You're going to rock their worlds too.

You're not the same person you were the last time you talked. These relationships are going to change. How do you face that, and reassure them?

If you figure this out, let me know. I have a lot of explaining to do.

Writing Prompt #408: Extenuating Circumstances

Someone is unable to keep a promise due to circumstances that were unexpected. What are the consequences?

(Sorry for the unintentional hiatus, guys- laptop and back-up system both went AWOL.)

(...I will not be reliable until it's fixed. I'm typing on borrowed time right now. Sorry about that.)

Writing Prompt #407: Facing Armageddon

Two people openly discuss something difficult that is going to happen.

How do they comfort each other? How can they be cheery in the face of probable pain? How do each of them cope differently?

Additional challenge: find a strange venue for the conversation.