Writing Prompts - 4/4/14

A couple prompts to get your weekend off to a good start. If you use them and want to share, leave a comment with a link to your work: I'd love to see!

1) Your opening line is: "It wasn't the pain of the change, or even the annoyance of losing your clothes when you changed back that bothered Terran; it was the fleas that were the worst.

2) Your main character has woken to the sloppy, wet kisses of a strange dog. After pushing the creature off her, she finds she is hunkered down in a narrow alley leading out into an open marketplace where foods, wares, and services are being hocked, each louder than the last. She is dressed like a peasant, but upon further inspection, she notes she has on a fine silk dress beneath her raggedy cloak. She can remember nothing of how she came to be here, but an incessant need to keep her identity secret is nagging at the back of her mind. If only she could remember her name!

He steals only what he can't afford.

3) In a fictional world, parrots are sacred. Why?

P.S. Today's prompts are brought to you by Aladdin, apparently.

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.