Welcome, A-Z Blogging Challenge friends. This year, my theme is Prompt-a-day, with fun or thought-provoking writing prompts to use as a story start, warm up, or creativity stretching exercise.Shock
The neighbors explain they will be returning to their home planet tomorrow.
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Q4U: How might you spin this prompt in an unexpected direction? How about as chick lit or historical fiction?
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ReplyDeleteIndeed. They're such a helpful tool. Thanks for coming by!
DeleteStory response: SHOCK: pregnant after a secret affair with neighbour. What will the baby be like?
ReplyDeleteLove it! I'm guessing baby is part shapeshifter if the daddy was able to blend in so well.
DeleteIf they were like my actual neighbours, I'd be rejoicing and thinking that it explained a lot! Safe to say we don't get on...
ReplyDeleteHave fun planning the virtual "good riddance" party! :-)
DeleteHmmm... with a twist... The neighbors explain they will be returning to their home planet--Earth--tomorrow.
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Love it! It was an ordinary day in Zebulon X, when the portal sensor chimed. It was our neighbors, with the odd name Smith. "So, this is goodbye," Lady Smith said. "Tomorrow we head back home. Back to our home planet, a place called Earth."
DeleteHi Laurel - as it's Earth Day - I'll say at long last thank goodness they are leaving Earth to us earthlings ... perhaps it should have been R for Relief, but after I'd got over S for the Shock of who or what they were/are!!! cheers Hilary
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Indeed. I expect one would be spending the final day living next to the aliens wondering why their alien-ness had gone unnoticed.
DeleteIn my ninth grade literatre class we use to get a weekly writing prompt. It usually had somethng to do with the book we were reading at the time. I really enjoyed the exercise even though it wasn't always a fiction story that came out fo it. While I may never write a novel, maybe I should go back to the writing prompts and seeing what comes of it.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you want to stop by my blog, Girl Who Reads
DeleteGlad to hear you have good memories of using them (some writers don't). Prompts can be helpful simply as a warm-up before you dig into another project, or to stretch creatively when you feel like you've gotten into a rut.
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