Writing Prompt #44: Self-Villainization

Pick an attribute you struggle with in yourself and create a villain who embraces it.

Writing Prompt #43: Gas

Create a really cool character…and then make them a vessel for fart jokes.

Credit to my brilliant sister...if she wants it.

[Additional Note: This blog gets an average of two page views a day. That means that 50% of my audience has not only heard this prompt, but invented it.

If you are the member of this 50%, come to me with your dissatisfaction and I will give you another prompt, because you are important and special.]

Writing Prompt #42: Beverage

Use a beverage for something other than drinking.

Writing Prompt #41: Unabashed Sadness

Write a story where the character is allowed to be completely, unabashedly sad and it's acceptable for her to cry and scream and throw herself over a casket or cling to someone's skirt or throw himself against a door until he's purple and yellow and still screaming.

Or a story about a fairy princess who rides a unicorn that farts rainbows. But personally I think the above would be more cathartic.

Writing Prompt #40: Coping

Write a scene or a sketch or a story in which every single person is coping with something they cannot share and each person is coping a different way.

How are you going to make this interesting? I don't know. But when you figure out how to make coping fun, leave me a comment and let me know how.

Writing Prompt #39: Reconciliation

Write a reconciliation where the person who was wronged gets down on their knees.

Writing Prompt #38: Hard Choice

Make a character choose between a rule he believes in strongly and something he really wants.