Prompts

November 8 Prompt – The Excuse

Writers in the Grove NaNoWriMo Prompt a Day badgeThe following prompt is by Paula Adams, member of Writers in the Grove, and a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.

You (or your character) is a clerk at a local store like a laundry, hardware, or drug store.

A customer has been promised their repair or service due two days before.

She says to you, “all right, give me the most off-the-wall, creative excuse you can think of. Make me laugh and I won’t make trouble.”

What is your excuse?

NOTE: This is inspired by a Robert Fulghum story.

November 7 Prompt – The History of a Place

Writers in the Grove NaNoWriMo Prompt a Day badgeThe following prompt is by Patti Bond, member of Writers in the Grove, and a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.

How does the history of your story location influence your characters or story?

November 6 Prompt – Diagnosis

Writers in the Grove NaNoWriMo Prompt a Day badgeThe following prompt is by Diana Lubarsky, member of Writers in the Grove, and a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.

Diagnosis:

I have what?

The day I received my diagnosis.

How has the world changed or has it?

November 5 Prompt – The Land

Writers in the Grove NaNoWriMo Prompt a Day badgeThe following prompt is by Writers in the Grove member Anne Stackpole-Cuellar and a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.

How has the land, the landscape, where you lived influenced your life or that of your character?

It’s A Scary Thing (A Tribute to NaNoWriMo)

Written from the Prompt at Writers in the Grove on Monday, October 26. Halloween type stories.

 

I’ve got a month-long challenge in front of me, to write almost 2,000 words a day and keep track of my progress.

I’m not sure which scares me more, the writing or the keeping track. I signed up a week ago and even the website gave me chills. This is just another thing I have to learn while doing the writing that I love.

My inner struggle keeps casting doubts on all my good intentions. The waffle-factor is showing itself to be a large, looming obstacle to overcome. I feel the need to keep plowing through until the writing can start to flow.

“Like a bull in a china shop,” I heard that phrase often throughout the years. They were always looking straight at me when they were verbalizing the clique’.

It’s not that I want to bulldoze my way through life. I would much rather be a dainty little flower with time to envelope the day in loving embrace and have the ability to fill nay-sayers with quiet consolation.

Instead, I bang, twist and impale while tearing apart ideas, methods and plans before finding a balance of thoughts for the writing to begin.

Doggedly, I will be sharpening my cleaver, dusting off the sledge hammer, and lifting mental weights daily until November 1st, before advancing laboriously into the challenge of NaNoWriMo.