Day 159

What would you write?

Day One Hundred Fifty Eight

Set today's story behind the scenes of a traveling carnival.

Day One Hundred Fifty-Seven

The art of courtship.  This is your theme.  Time to woo.

Day One Hundred Fifty Six

Your character is a hinge.  He adjoins two seemingly rigid and stationary things, creating motion.  What relies on him?  Has it made him rusty and need of repair, or does he swivel freely and happily in this connection?

Day One Hundred Fifty Five

What makes you dizzy?

Day One Hundred Fifty Four

Self: constant or in flux.  Write about a moment where you felt your self defined.  Does that definition still hold true?

One Hundred Fifty Three

Remember school?  Retrieve a moment and write about it.

One Hundred Fifty Two

You find your drive home blocked by a load of pallets and their goods scattered across the road.  Further ahead, a flatbed truck sits empty and straddling the center line.  And go.

One Hundred Fifty One

Your character is in danger of losing something intangible.  Does he fight to keep it or does he let it go?

Day One Hundred Fifty

Hugs and kisses.  Give someone a hug, then write about that someone.

Day 149

What if athletics were illegal?

Day One Hundred Forty Eight

Milk.  It does a story good.

Day One Hundred Forty Seven

You are waiting under the overhang for something.  Write about what that something is and why you're waiting.

Day One Hundred Forty Six

If you could take a single photograph of anything in the world, what would it be?  Base a story around the pursuit of this shot.

Day One Hundred Forty Five

What's behind the door?

Day One Hundred Forty Four

Choose a cultural tradition or festive occasion to inspire today's writings.  Time to celebrate!

Day One Hundred Forty Three

Choose a music track at random.  Play the track and write for the music.  If the tempo changes, so does your scene.  If the mood changes, so does your character.  Your story does whatever the music does, no exceptions.  Stay flexible and on your toes, or your fingertips for that matter.  (Suggestion: instrumental tracks provide more freedom than ones with lyrics.)

Day One Hundred Forty Two

When it comes to buildings, your character has a taste for the extreme.  Becoming the next Human Fly and taking up urban BASE jumping are both on the to do list.  1, 2, 3, jump!

Day One Hundred Forty One

Vacancy.  What happens if something stays empty too long?  Your character has a vacancy to fill.  Fill it with your imagination.

Day One Hundred Forty

The bicycle.  Whether a professional racer, a circus performer, a bike messenger, or simply a commuter choosing not to drive, your character uses a bicycle regularly.  Now's the time to start pedaling.

Day 139

Brick upon brick.  What are you building?

Day One Hundred Thirty Eight

Feeling minty, pepperminty...base today's story around a candymaker whose signature confection requires peppermint.

Day One Hundred Thirty Seven

Your only choice is to break the window.  Why?

Day One Hundred Thirty Six

Hotel, motel, inn, B&B, resort, lodge, or hostel.  Choose one and set today's story within the walls of its lobby only.

Day One Hundred Thirty Five

Your character is restrained in some way, whether by his doing or someone else's.  Brainstorm solutions to this predicament.  Then again, is a solution the best thing?

One Hundred Thirty Four

A tender heart.  A helping hand.  A gift of self.  Your character today possesses it all.  Write.  Now.

Day One Hundred Thirty Three

Signs are everywhere.  Do you believe?

Day One Hundred Thirty Two

What do you find in the shade?

Day One Hundred Thirty One

As you walked by, the mirror provided an image you wouldn't have seen otherwise.  What was it?

Day One Hundred Thirty

For one reason or another, you are tasked with emptying and cleaning an old abandoned warehouse.  Adventure or chore?  Find anything worth your effort?

Day 129

You see where you want to go, but you can't get there.  What do you do?

Day One Hundred Twenty Eight

From the rooftop, you watch passersby going about their daily routines.  You delight in your secret surveillance until one day.  Why?

Day One Hundred Twenty Seven

You tried to sleep below deck, but the buoy's incessant banging on the hull kept you awake.  You wish, however, that was the only reason for your insomnia.  Please continue.

Day One Hundred Twenty Six

Stairs take you somewhere.  Where are you going?

Day One Hundred Twenty Five

Whoa!  Hold up, slow it down.  Set your story in an era where the horse was the primary source of transportation, other than one's own feet of course.

Day One Hundred Twenty Four

What if you were only allowed by law to eat food grown or tended by your own hand?

Day One Hundred Twenty Three

You will always remember the sound of these doors opening.  Why?

Day One Hundred Twenty Two

The sun defines reliability.  Once it sets, it will inevitably rise again.  What would happen if there were no more sunrises?

Day One Hundred Twenty One

What in life is key?  Write of a character who is attempting to answer this question for others, not himself.  What happens?

Day One Hundred Twenty

Something unexpected happens when you are crossing this bridge.  Elaborate now.

Day 119

Your character is homesick, and her daily routine is laced with daydreams of "home."  If her mind is living in this dream state, how does it affect her real life?  Lots of potential to have fun with this one.

Day One Hundred Eighteen

If you could choose one song to be your personal anthem, what would it be?

Day One Hundred Seventeen

What is your favorite view from a moving car?  Or from any mode of transportation?

Day One Hundred Sixteen

If you could set up and manage a toll-free phone number, what would it be for?

Day One Hundred Fifteen

If you were an artist, what would be your medium?  Would your work be inspired by a specific movement?  If you are already an artist, what new medium would you like to try?

Day One Hundred Fourteen

Speed.  Love it or hate it.  What is your perfect speed?  Today's story should revolve around a character discontent with his current speed.

Day One Hundred Thirteen

Create a story about a civilization, human or not, that lives underwater.

Day One Hundred Twelve

Follow a character through the seasons.  Does one season hold more promise than another?  Or does one pose more hardship?  Your character could be without a home, or tending to his crop fields, or simply a mother trying to find new and creative ways to entertain her children.  How do the changes in nature, in weather affect your character's everyday life?

One Hundred Eleven

What would you do if you were immune to the law?

One Hundred Ten

Your character is authorized personnel.  What secrets lay behind this sign and what does your character do to protect them?