Sunday, March 16, 2014

Writing Prompts 3/16/14

Feel free to use these to chip away at your writer's block:

1) Your opening line is: "Xavier just refused to stay dead."

2) Your neighbor of over five years, an elderly but able-bodied man, passes away. You shared only vague pleasantries when he was alive and knew next to nothing about one another. A young woman knocks on your door a few days after you learn of his passing, and she thanks you for your kindness and friendship to the old man, her great uncle, before handing you a box and leaving. Sufficiently confused, you open it to find a plethora of pictures of yourself and the man together at a multitude of local functions and others of him at your family gatherings--all places you very clearly remember him not being, and some you don't even remember going yourself. There is also a letter inside. It reads: ...

3) Come up with a handful of idioms or proverbs for a fictional world, and write how the each came into being and how the spread.

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