Your character needs help from someone they dislike.
Photography, politics, and snark.
Ask
June 1, 2012
Character Prompt #142
May 31, 2012
The problem with writing from the POV of straight women and gay men…
is that I can talk about the physically attractive parts of a woman all day and night (and the next day and night) but when it comes to men I’m all, “uh… nice eyes? cheekbones? pretty hair? FUCK I DON’T KNOW THEY HAVE MUSCLES YOU PEOPLE LIKE THAT RIGHT”
May 28, 2012
Prompt #217
“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
—Elie Wiesel, Night
May 27, 2012
Character Prompt #141
Your character must temporarily use a different mode of travel.
May 21, 2012
May 20, 2012
Character Prompt #140
“I need it more than you do.”
May 18, 2012
ALWAYS THE WAY
“Okay, I’ma WRITE WRITE WRITE! No stopping until 2K!”
*writes about 100 words in an hour, gives up*
“Blech, I don’t really feel like it today. Let’s stop at 500 and call it a win.”
*Writes 5K in 2 hours*
May 15, 2012
No matter what happens with Ghost Sight, no matter what I change or edit out, I will always and forever keep this line.
Mrs. Medina was expecting a wizard, but he hated dealing with the oh-wow-he-really-is-a-magical-fairy-man-will-he-turn-me-into-a-toad look.
May 14, 2012
Prompt #215
Truth is:
I was always that kind of girl.
Truth is:
they don’t make dresses any whiter than
mine.
Truth is:
I am not Demeter’s daughter.
I am Heisenberg’s ripe tomato
I am Niels Bohr’s piece on the side.
In the winter I am a particle.
In the summer I am a wave.
And I didn’t get to be queen of hell
by letting folks off easy.
“A Silver Splendour, A Flame” by Catherynne M. Valente
May 11, 2012
Character Prompt #139
Your character spends time with their mother.
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