Tag: writing prompts

unknought:

writing-prompt-s:

Your protagonist is petrified of the letter “L”, explain why without using “L”.

This is just to say

I have removed
the dozenth character
that was in
your orthography

and which
I imagine you intended to use
as the unique representation
of a certain phoneme

Forgive me
it was a voiced approximant
produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue
and so terrifying

writing-prompt-s:

The girl that everyone knows but never talks to is a witch. If desperate, people got to her for solutions. She helps, but for a price. One day she comes to you in need of a favor, and in return she promises the memories she took from you nearly a year ago in a deal you no longer remember.

punkwixes:

okay but why aren’t you writing road trip aus?

  • it’s literally the best thing ever?? you can have two characters traveling the country??  learning more about themselves?? learning more about their friends??
  • you can literally apply this to any couple.  otp?? no problem.  ot3??  hell fuckin’ yeah.  ot5?? you may need to rent a bus for that.
  • driving shitty rental cars and living off of gas station food and going way too fast down highways with the radio up
  • alternately: “hell no you cannot survive off of gas station candy I’m taking us to a real restaurant”
  • getting lost on the way to the restaurant and having to ask for directions at a remote little souvenir shop
  • going to tourist traps just to buy shitty souvenirs for each other and compete for the most tacky ones.
  • traveling to super crowded cities and taking a couple of days off just to enjoy the feeling of being lost.  driving down winding country roads and opening all the windows because it’s like being found.
  • which member of your otp wants to go to super sophisticated cities and which one wants to visit the world’s largest ball of yarn?
  • staying in shitty motels, okay?  the kind of creepy-not-quite-real aesthetic of neon lights and soft linen and staying awake all night listening to the other person breathe.
  • alternately: you literally get the chance to write the scenario where the characters trade off seats during the night and the driver keeps looking at their sleeping companion and getting distracted because of the way the moonlight bounces off of their face and ugh
  • taking turns deciding on the next destination and characters declaring things like “oh my god, I hate the countryside” but they wind up loving it
  • car karaoke.  someone probably owns the complete collection of disney cds.  they probably take it very seriously.
  • characters who keep making more and more detours because they want it to last forever even though it can’t.