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nerd that decides he doesnt want to be a nerd anymore
how about a world where DEATH decides to take a vacation, try civilian life or something, and as a result no one is dying? That, I think, would create a major problem. Personally, I find Death a fascinating being.
((I personally think there are a lot of stories about Death. :D))
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Have a character who is obsessed with their hair. Then one day, their hair starts to fall out.
((sounds like A Little Princess. :D))
Death as a girl is an interesting concept too...I always thought of him as a guy. there is a story where a girl falls in love with death and keeps cheating him of her life. it's a good one, but i can't remember the title. A little girl with the ability to see santa, tooth fairy, cupid, etc. and when she grows up the ability stays, so she's friends with all these mystical characters and nobody else can see them.
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A pair shoes was normal, until one day, when they became worn. The owner decided to throw out the shoes, but just before they were dropped in the trash can, s/he heard "WAIT!!!! DON'T THROW ME AWAY!!! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!!"
A magical multi-purpose pixie wand
lol my double english teacher gave me a few. i dont remember them that well...write from the perspective of a teenager finding their voice for the first time [figurative or literally:]
write from the point of view of a middle-aged man starting with the words 'i could have avoided all that trouble if i had only...'
oooh Have random words like feather, leaf and house, and write a 3 page story/snapshot including those words.
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Add a cookie if they are in reference to your main character, and What's said is true.
And for those of you who don't know, necrophilia is the love of death/the dead, and a necrophiliac loves death/the dead.
Roni...the shoe comment is amazing XDDUmm...interesting prompts...
haha, I don't have anything that I'm not currently using right now.
I poked him laughing maniaclly "I poked you!"
Write a story that starts with the words, "A magic marker changed my life..."((haha. i'm thinking of using this one myself. XD))
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or "it was a dark and stormy night" XDalthough madeline l'engle already pulled that one off ... :P
wich one of her stories started with that?Prompt right... my brother is always playing with legos, maybe a story about what some little kid builds with is blocks or legos? or maybe not about the kid building, but based off of what he/she builds?
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yeah, that's how I used to always start my stories, but there's like a whole lot of different ways to start stories. :D
haha. i've never started a story that way...teehee XD
A tiny city of little people were just living their lives when...BAM! Big MONSTERS ARRIVE ON THEIR PLANET!!! (Humans)
WHAT WILL THEY DO?????
pretend u've got a superpower for a 24 hour period. what do you do?
Listen to a song and write the scene that comes to you. Don't try to "find" the scene, rather let yourself go into the song and become the character. What emotions do you feel? Sad? Happy? Confused? There is your character and your scene.
i still like my little people one... I could never make it work, lolz
Breezy wrote: "how about a world where DEATH decides to take a vacation, try civilian life or something, and as a result no one is dying? That, I think, would create a major problem. Personally, I find Death a fa..."The original, I think was a '34 movie called, Death Takes a Holiday with Frederic March, but the 71 version with Monte Markham and Yvette Mimieux was wonderful. It's a beautiful movie and worth renting.
More modern is the hideous Meet Joe Black which even Anthony Hopkins couldn't save. Ok, so I still cried and I loved Brad Pitt, even though he was wooden.
How bout an angel falls in love with a demon, or vice versa.
O>Oo
start a story with 'it was a dark and stormy night. Well...not dark...or stormy but,'or start a story with '"he's up there," I pointed upward.
"You mean...?"
"No! In Canada!"'
Breezy wrote: "Death as a girl is an interesting concept too...I always thought of him as a guy. there is a story where a girl falls in love with death and keeps cheating him of her life. it's a good one, but i c..."Breezy wrote: "how about a world where DEATH decides to take a vacation, try civilian life or something, and as a result no one is dying? That, I think, would create a major problem. Personally, I find Death a fa..."
You should read The Sandman Graphic Novels by Neil Gaiman, both of those things come true.
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or start a story with '"he's up there," I pointed upward.
"You mean...?"
"No! In Canada!"'"
LOL. Well, if you do that, make sure that your character doesn't live in michigan! Because then your character would be pointing east and it wouldn't make sense.
However, if your characters live in traverse city...
"he's down there," I pointed downward.
"You mean..."
"Yes, he lives in Kalamazoo."
lol or'It all start when i whacked my sister in the head with the refridgeorator door'
*giggles*start a story with:
My life ended dramatically. Well, technically it wasn't dramatic, exactly, but it was certainly unique. How many people kick the bucket because of a cream puff?
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Well, this is a twist on that.
A young child and a babysitter are playing with legos/blocks/linkin logs and create a whole town. Then, they go outside to play on the swings (because the kid gets bored or something) except when they step outside, they find themselves stepping into their built world, and the house that they just exited is one of the houses that was in the town. The little kid doesn't really notice anything, but the babysitter does, but doesn't do anything because there is nothing TO do/(s)he doesn't want to freak out the little kid.
when they go back inside the lego town is still there, in the living room. The babysitter starts to disassemble it in hopes of things returning back to normal, but she pulls the roof off of the lego house, and the roof comes off the real house. So she has to put things back. And she has to figure things out frm there, and it is all complicated and challenging and whatnot...
Of course, you could just take the getting sucked into a lego world thing and go from there in a totally different direction than I did.
Here, leaving prompts is highly encouraged. They can be as silly or as serious as you want. In fact, they can be anything you want! You may browse through and take any prompt, and you don't even have to say you are taking it. If you find something that you find offensive (such as a suggestion of random sex scenes) , please, don't make a huge deal of it. Just don't take that prompt, and ignore it. However, if you are leaving a prompt, don't say anything that would be highly offensive or offensive to a large group of people.
Now, get prompting!!!!!