If you haven’t guessed, it’s about reflections! More specifically, what happens when your reflection is just a tad bit off. Say you were wearing a shirt with a design imprinted on it, but the design had changed. What happens to the character? Do these odd experiences keep on happening? Is it limited to just that mirror or character? Can they talk to anyone else about their experience?
Have fun!
Yesterday, we played around with the idea of personal space and having someone intentionally distancing themselves away from another person.
Today, I’d like to explore the other side by having a character who is intentionally making physical contact with another person. Whether it’s lovers cuddling after a long day, or someone holding another person for the first time, it’s up to you. Romantic or not, the most important part is to really capture the feeling and emotions and put them into words.
Have fun!
We’ve all got it, colloquially referred to as “the bubble,” some require large amounts of personal space, and yet others have no problem with such intrusions into theirs.
Today, write about a person who values that space to the point where they begin to mark out lines, draw boundaries, and essentially, declare themselves a separate entity in the world. Obviously, it’s geared towards exploring the insanity in characters (always a fun topic), but being silly is always an option too!
Have fun!
Imagine that you’re out walking in the snow, when you discover a pair of abandoned snowshoes with a note attached to them. As far as you know, no one has been over here in quite some time, meaning that they have no logical explanation for them being in the place that they are.
What does the note say? Who would have left them behind? How did you stumble across them?
Be creative, and have fun!
Write a short story about a character whose good deed eventually comes back around to bite them, but they may not realize or experience this destructive event until years later.
It may be that they helped a stranger fix a flat, who turned out to be a serial killer who later came back and wrecked his family. Or something equally outrageous. But make the coincidences seem somewhat plausible, no need to have them be struck down by a stray meteorite.
Be creative, and have fun!
—Sorry for the silence, queues seem to be broken. Posts might be delayed until later in the day.
Write a scene in which a newlywed couple has breakfast. The catch is the night before something happened, and they haven’t talked about it yet. It could be something like a death in the family or child, it could be one of them got fired the other day. Maybe one of them broke or lost something valuable. Maybe one of them had an affair. Maybe it’s a lot of little things that have built up over time. Is there someone to blame?
Think of something that could stir up a good argument or a tense, emotional moment for the two. Whatever you decide to do, be creative and have fun!
Today, write a moment in with a character who is free falling, they can be sky diving or bungee jumping, it doesn’t matter. What’s important is the feeling of falling, watching the ground quickly approach. What are they thinking about or feeling? Is there a specific memory that plays from their past in their head? Or are they just content at noticing just how oddly pacifist the world is around them as they fall?
Have fun!
Today, place a small town at the edge of the night and day, in a sort of limbo, “twilight-esque” state. There are a few oddities about this town, the major one being that to the rest of the world, the town only appears at twilight, disappearing to wherever else it exists at other times. For those that live in the town, it always appears as twilight, however, and they live out their lives accordingly.
Now, craft a character that needs to get into the town, for whatever reason. Is there a long-forgotten girl that they’re chasing after? What about adjusting to the new sort of appearance of time? What does the character do for a living in the town? Does anyone ever notice that people come and go as often as they please? What about legends surrounding the town?
It seems like a bit much for a flash fiction story, so for those that enjoy writing longer stories, here’s a chance to have it shine! Have fun!
Our garbage says a lot about us, really. Who/if we associate ourselves with anyone, eating habits, physical and mental well-being, just look into your own trash for a short while.
Now, look into a character’s. Reveal something interesting, something surprising, all through the use of description, perhaps as they take the trash out, forgetting to sort recyclables. Or perhaps as they let them pile up, waiting for someone else to pick them up. Is it neat? Dirty? Maybe your character is searching through someone else’s trash, piecing together who the person was.
Have fun!
Alright, so I owe you all an apology for dropping off the face of the Earth there for a bit. I won’t bore you with the details, but I’ve already queued up a bunch of prompts and daily posts should resume.
Also, I’ve received a few submitted stories and was wondering if you would be interested in reading them and sharing yours? Right now the idea is that you would submit your story and every Sunday I would post a couple from the group. That way you could show off your own work and see what everyone else is coming up with. Maybe find some new friends, or at least some new people to follow. I’ve read a bunch of stories from this group (Anything I see, I read) and I always enjoy it.
I’m not sure if there is an interest in anything like this, but I would be happy to set it up and run it.
Any thoughts?
