Writing Prompt #111: Objective Thinking

Pick an inanimate object and describe life as that object. Then, write a human character with a similar experience.

A window- People always look right through me.

A chair- I always play a supporting role.

A lock- You'll never get through me unless you have the key.

Writing Prompt #110: Re-Learning

Your character has to pick up a forgotten skill. Long-atrophied language? Soft-shoe routine? Go for it.

Writing Prompt #109: No More Thinking

Bring a character to that place where additional thinking does not do any good. Push him/her to ACT, whether they know what they're doing or not. No more thinking in circles. No more talking it out. Go for it. Make the best move you see.

Writing Prompt #108: Unwanted Confession

A character has to deal with an unwanted confession of affection. Make sure both characters have objectives in the scene- including the one being approached.

Writing Prompt #107: Safe

Make a character feel safe.

Writing Prompt #106: make me like him

I challenge you to endear me to a secondary character in as few words as possible...with a narrator that hates him.

Writing Prompt #105: Different Values

I recently had a pleasant conversation with a young person in which he started showing me photographs of gifts that he'd given to his mom, and listing off prices. I'm always happy to see other people happy and I enjoy hearing people's stories, but the disparity in our respective incomes and that he thought the conversation was normal amused me greatly. The last gift he'd given his mom was a hundred and twenty times the price of the last gift I'd given mine. While in his social group, chatting about incomes and the prices of purchases is ordinary and accepted, I would be sternly dressed down by my family for talking about the same.

I challenge you to find a value that is foreign to you, or a subject that is generally taboo in your circles, and write about people who talk about it.

Money? Religion? Sex? Toe fungus? Go for it.