Writing Prompt #142: Conversation with a Stranger

Your character asks a personal question of a total stranger. Why? What happens next? Does it change the way your character thinks?

Writing Prompt #141: An Overdose of Happiness

Someone is so busy being happy that they forget something important.

Like updating this blog. Apologies.

Writing Prompt #140: No Good Deed

A person is destroyed by a small courtesy.

(Thanks, Michael.)

Writing Prompt #139: That Kind of Person

It's always strange when someone responds to a plan of mine with, "You won't. You're not that kind of person." It makes me want to ask, what kind of person am I, and why don't you think she'd do what I want to do?

Write a story where your character does something that would be easy to block with "You're not that kind of person." Make them push through it.

Alternately, stop a plan with "You're not that kind of person." Maybe their friend is right, just like mine was.

Writing Prompt #138: Secret Forgiveness

Your character forgives someone for a massive amount of harm that the person doesn't know they did.

Writing Prompt #137: Un-masking

Someone isn't the person your character thought him to be.

My immediate thought is something small and subtle and delicate, but I hope someone somewhere writes a story with lizard-aliens. That would be fun.

Writing Prompt #136: Benefit of a Doubt

Heroes and Heroines in stories constantly jump to the worst conclusions about the people they love, while the audience screams "No no no! It was his evil twin; listen to him!"

I'm challenging you to write a scene where a person is faced with pretty damning evidence, but treats the accused the way you would want to be treated.