The first time I ever saw Rod Drake was at my uncle Jim’s tin-roof garage on Poole Street, about ten miles down half-paved streets from the center of town. The auto shop was on a desperate looking plot full of rusted-out hulks up to their shattered windows in dead, scraggly grass, and the only other building in the area was a dilapidated shack which my uncle told me belonged to a man who used to be a gypsy. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember a time when you were younger and in a difficult situation…
This is one of 2 writing prompts to work on in the next few weeks (the other one will come next week), and it is a variation on a “trigger word” prompt where you’re given a single word (in this case, a color), and that’s it – just take whatever the word makes you think of and go from there.
However, this version has a “pre-writing” step that’s quick, easy, and often surprisingly helpful…
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A Whispered Smile
Mandy. Her face, like her name, is crystallized within the contours of my mind. Frozen in her ageless youth. Smiling. She was always smiling. As a child of only seven, I could never quite understand. How could someone smile as they were being tormented by their peers? Read the rest of this entry »
Epitaph
Is it a sin to be alive if I’m evil?
Tell me, dearest, what’s the limitations there Read the rest of this entry »
Here are 6 scenarios (scenes, jumping off points, idea-starters). Consider one, or more than one, and see where you can go with it. And now, the scenarios… Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some new writing prompts. Feel free to post your results by leaving a comment…
What is going on here? What story/poem/play goes along with any/all of the following scenarios…
1. A young child sits in a grocery cart playing with a toy, alone.
You’re asking yourself, What is the “5-Letters Game”? Read on…
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i feel as if my life is about to be turned Read the rest of this entry »
Click on the “comments” link at the end of this post, to see 3 more entries in the Flash Fiction Contest – from Scott “Scooter” Chretien, Rebekah Tarka, and Hillary Reale.
PS: To see the original prompts, click here… http://pulpcity.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/flash-fiction-creative-writing-prompts/
First, a big list of trigger words…
…danger, candlelight, pattern, pond, beach, truck, hinge, insanity, creme brulee, billow, love, gun, frame, parking lot, work, marshmallow, thread…
Take any, all, or none of those as beginning, middle, and/or end-points and…
1) Write a 5-sentence story.
2) Write a short (1-2 page?) play.
Click on the “comments” link at the end of this post to see writers’ responses…
Click on the “Comments” link at the end of this post to read two more pieces from this semester’s contest – by Karagh Linzi and Andrew Banas. I like how they both use the “a man receives a letter in the mail” prompt…
