“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content …
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Techno-Ukrainian Folk-Metal Music
The sound system switched to full, and the stage lights flared in parti-colors. The drummer smacked her sticks together in a four-count and the crowd's cheers were drowned out by a wave of sound that crashed through the room like a white-hot sea. Christa felt it as a solid mass that went straight for her …
Karmic Fate
"Abandoning Harriet, Shelley moved with Mary to Switzerland, where they met Byron. In 1816 Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine in Hyde Park.... In July 1822 Shelley's sailing boat, the Don Juan, sank in a sudden storm on the Gulf of Spezia, and he drowned." -John Carey, A little History of Poetry Writing Prompt Write …
Passion
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves Character development challenge: What is your …
Diary
“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary Today's writing prompt has two choices: Choice One: Write a diary entry for your OC. What is a normal day for them? Write …
An Awkward Conversation
Scott Pilgrim: Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase 'Paku-Paku,' which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you …
Chaotic Energy
"I love days like this, they have such chaotic energy." —My friend who woke up at 3:30 this morning and drank a pot of coffee If you had to describe the energy of your OCs in one word, what would it be? Make a list of your OCs (it can be all the characters from …
What is Evil?
“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels Let's talk about evil. What makes a character "evil?" What motivates your antagonist? Think about your …
What Will you Notice?
“Love has earth to which she clingsWith hills and circling arms aboutWall within wall to shut fear out.But Thought has need of no such things,For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings."― Robert Frost, Mountain Interval Today's writing prompt is to pay attention to the things around you. As you go about your day today, write down …
Dandelion
“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia Write from the perspective of a dandelion being blown into a wish. What does the dandelion see before it is picked and after it is blown away? …
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