Write about a time everything changed in the blink of an eye!
It
was back when I still lived with my mom… One of the last times I ever saw her.
We
were going to the hospital; I was scheduled for some tests because I got
headaches, all the time.
I
never made it into the exam room. I never made it past the lobby.
As
we were walking up to the hospital entrance, I saw a woman laying on the ground
behind the dumpster. She looked cold… tired… gone.
My
mom rushed me away from her. I wasn’t sure what she was so afraid of, not at
the time. When they finally wheeled her into the lobby, I could see it—the blood.
It was dripping down her arm and onto the floor. I reached out, barely touching
her hand as they passed by us. That was when everything changed.
The
room started to spin and my headache was instantly gone. I could see, clearer
than I had ever seen before, but it wasn’t the hospital lobby I was seeing. I
was surrounded by trees and I could hear screaming coming from somewhere behind
me. When I turned around, I saw him!
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Write about a time everything changed in the blink of an eye!
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What is the first thing you do when you wake up every morning?
My
name is Stella. Every morning I wake up, in my ten-foot by ten-foot white room,
to the sound of an alarm blaring just outside my door at precisely 5:45am. I
have fifteen minutes to go to the bathroom, brush my teeth and hair, and change
into a freshly cleaned uniform.
At
6:00am the guards open my bedroom door and escort me down a long corridor to
the stairwell. We don’t take the elevator; they say the exercise stimulates
active brain function. No, we take the stairs down seven floors into the
sub-basement of the corporate offices of Operation Atlas. Once there, and only for
about ten minutes while we change shifts, I get to see one of the other watchmen.
There
are four of us, four watchmen. We work in shifts of six-hours at a time.
I’m the youngest, so I start at exactly 6:30am and end at 12:30pm on the dot.
They never leave any of us hooked into the system longer than six hours. They don’t
say why, but I have a feeling I wouldn’t want to know the reason anyway.
At
12:20pm the next watchmen comes in and they start the shift change protocol.
I’m out of the room at exactly 12:30pm and escorted back up the staircase and
back to my room.
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What is the first thing you do when you wake up every morning?
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What are you feeling, right now?
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What modern technological device takes up most of your time?
My
life is essentially ruled by one device, the metabolic piezoelectric sensor
version 5.3. It’s a small device I wear on my chest to detect the changes in vibration
levels throughout my body. It connects to my nervous system, through a series
of wires attached at the ends with sticky nodes, and transmits data directly to
a central computer at the corporate offices of Operation Atlas. There, a team
of medical professionals monitor my health and another team monitors my every
move.
I haven’t always worked for Operation Atlas; I used to be free. It wasn’t until some of the younger metamorphs were discovered that the company was developed and the hunt began. It’s my job, if I want to survive, to locate others like me… others with powers that the organization deems useful. Not all metamorphs are high priority but those that are, like the oracles, the psychokinetic, and the incendiaries they assign to me.
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What modern technological device takes up most of your time?
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It’s
Thursday afternoon and usually I post my weekly Writing Wednesday post on, well…
Wednesday. Unfortunately, or maybe luckily, I was on vacation this last week
and my blog got put on the back burner. I think we all need a little me time,
but right about now, I need more work time.
I’m
trying to catch up, with everything. I have a stack of books about a mile high
that I need to get through, a list of movies about two miles long that I need
to watch and review, a number of author interview requests, blog posts to set
up, and a self-publishing course to create.
So
yeah, I need time. If you have any extra that you’d like to loan me, I’d
forever be in your debt.
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What do you need right now?
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Have you ever experienced something that could not be logically
explained?
Something
that could not be logically explained? To you or to me? My whole life is filled
with things that most humans would say could not be logically explained.
I’m
blind. I wasn’t always blind, but when I was seven years old, I drowned. My
family was at a backyard bar-b-q at a neighbor’s house, and I was playing with
the other kids when I slipped and fell into the pool. I remember the feeling of
the cold water rushing around me but after that, nothing.
I’m
told I spent six months in the hospital, most of which I was either in a coma
or sedated. When I finally woke up, I had lost all vision in both eyes. I
couldn’t remember what my parents looked like or even that I had a little
brother, only three years old.
My
parents sent me away, to a boarding school for the blind. They said it would be
the best thing for me—that I’d learn how to deal with my new reality.
I
learned.
I
trained.
I
grew.
My
life is different now. I still can’t see, not in the way you do anyway.
However, my sight goes so much deeper than yours ever could.
They
call me a Precognitive. It’s a fancy word for someone who knows what will come…someone
with the ability to see into the future. So you see, my whole life is filled
with things that you might say are not logically explainable.
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Have you ever experienced something that
could not be logically explained?
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If I looked into your fridge right now, what would I find?
Wine.
Oh,
and beer. Now that Dean is staying over more often than not, he stocks the
fridge with beer.
I think we had pizza a couple nights ago and Chinese takeout from that place just down the street last night. So, I’m sure there are a few containers of leftovers. I leave them for Dean. I don’t eat leftovers. Dean, he eats anything.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it; wine, beer, and leftovers. I don’t cook. It’s one of the first things I tell a guy when I start dating. I figure if they are expecting some June Cleaver type, then I might as well scare them away before I get to attached. You know?
Hi,
I’m Kim, just your modern-day woman. I get my breakfast down at the coffee shop
on the corner, lunch at the deli down the road, and dinner at one of the many restaurants
within walking distance from my apartment which just so happens to reside just
above my small boutique. I design a line of woman’s clothing, but I’m working
on a children’s line. I cater to those high society types. You know the ones.
The moms who like to dress younger than they are. The mother daughter combos
who walk around in matching summer dresses.
I
love what I do, it’s my passion, but sometimes my customers can drive me a
little crazy. That’s why my fridge is stocked with wine. Lots of wine!
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If I looked into your fridge right now, what would I find?
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#WritingWednesday is an EASY, STRESS-FREE, weekly writing challenge.
Read the
writing prompt below,
Spend 5
minutes writing (in your own voice or the voice of a character you’re writing) whatever
comes to mind,
DON’T
EDIT what you write! IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PERFECT!
The goal
is 5 minutes of creativity.
Today I am writing as if I were writing in the voice of
Molly, a character in a children’s book I’ve started.
Today’s writing prompt:
You are a children’s book writer. Write the first few lines of your new book.
Hi, I’m Molly. I’m eight,
so I know a lot about the world. My little brother, he’s only six, he doesn’t
know very much at all. That’s why I have to teach him. Mom says to be patient;
he will learn as he gets older. I try, I really REALLY do, but it’s hard. When we’re
in the woods and the Droplops come out, he doesn’t understand that he has to
run away. He thinks it’s funny when their drool and slobber lands on him and makes
him all wet and sticky. To be honest, I don’t even think he sees the Droplops.
If he did, he wouldn’t laugh. He’d probably run away, screaming and crying.
There was this one
time, I was up in my treehouse and Timmy came out and was climbing up the ladder
calling for me, “Molly,” he yelled. “Molly, open the hatch. I want to come in.”
I was trying to be
really quiet, so he would think I wasn’t there and he would go back inside. It
didn’t work. I think my mom told him I was up there. Finally, I had to just let
him in.
So, we were sitting
in the treehouse and I had the windows open. They aren’t real windows, like in
a house-house. They don’t have glass or anything, but my dad did put shutters
on them so I could open and close them. Anyway, the shutters were open and I
was staring out at the sky across the field and the clouds were getting really
dark. I told Timmy we needed to go back in the house because the Droplops were
coming.
He just laughed. He
actually laughed.
I wasn’t going to
stick around. I climbed down the ladder and told Timmy to come with me. I knew
he would because he wasn’t allowed to be up in my treehouse without me.
As I was running back
to the house, a huge glob of Droplop slobber landed on my forehead. I wiped it
off with the back of my hand and turned back to see where Timmy was, but he
wasn’t there. The only thing I could see was the tall, slime covered Droplop
standing next to my treehouse, reaching in through the window with his big
green arm. I could hear Timmy, still up in the treehouse, but I had no way to
get to him. The ladder was blocked and if I tried to climb the tree, the
Droplop would see me.
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You are a children’s book writer. Write the first few lines of your new book.
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Remember, #WritingWednesday is an EASY, STRESS-FREE, weekly writing challenge.
• Read the writing prompt below, • Spend 5 minutes writing (in your own voice or the voice of a character you’re writing) whatever comes to mind, • DON’T EDIT what you write! IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PERFECT!
The goal is 5 minutes of creativity.
Today I am writing in my own voice. I want you to know me… understand where I’m coming from as an author. In order to do that, I have to be able to open up and share insights into my own life. Windows into my soul. I hope you’ll do the same with me.
Today’s writing prompt:
List a few phobias you have. When and how did you discover you had these fears?
Everyone has phobias, right? I’m not alone here I’m sure.
I wouldn’t say any of my phobias are really that unique nor are they extreme.
I’m afraid of heights, acrophobia, but only when it means tumbling down something. It’s hard for me to stand at the top of a football stadium or concert arena without the fear of tumbling down the steps. On the flip side, I have stood on the edge of a tall building and rappelled down. I’ve even jumped out of a plane (5 times) without much fear. The rappelling and the parachuting were both an adrenaline rush that my younger self lived for.
I’m, embarrassingly, afraid of spiders. I suffer from a mild case of arachnophobia… I really don’t think I need to explain this one… they are gross and creepy and I just don’t like them.
“Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?” Like Indian Jones, I have Ophidiophobia, a fear of snakes I’m not sure when or why this started. I remember as a kid running around catching garden snakes. I think, as I’ve gotten older, I just realize there are more harmful things in the world that I did as a kid. One of those are the numerous poisonous snakes. I don’t like them.
Needled. Enough said, right? I’m sure I’m not alone in this one. I have aichmophobia, a fear of needles. Honestly, this is the only reason I don’t like going to the doctors or hospitals in general. This is probably my worst phobia and has plagued me since I was a young child. I don’t know when it started but I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t afraid of needles.
Much like the needle fear… I am afraid of all stinging insects, but mostly bees and wasps. That is where my spheksophobia, fear of wasps comes in. I think I look at wasps and other stinging insects as flying needles with a mind of their own. At least with a needle, I know I only have to face my fear when I go to the doctors. With spheksophobia, I have to face my fear every time I go outside in the Spring and Summer months.
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List a few phobias you have. When and how did you discover you had these fears?
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This collection of 642 outrageous and witty writing prompts will get the creative juices flowing in no time. From crafting your own obituary to penning an ode to an onion, each page of this playful journal invites inspiration and provides plenty of space to write. Brimming with entertaining exercises from the literary minds of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, this is the ultimate gift for scribes of every stripe.
Remember, #WritingWednesday is an EASY, STRESS-FREE, weekly writing challenge.
Read the writing prompt below,
Spend 5 minutes writing (in your own voice or the voice of a character you’re writing) whatever comes to mind,
DON’T EDIT what you write! IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PERFECT!
The goal is 5 minutes of creativity.
Today I am writing in my voice. I usually write in the voice of one of my characters, but today’s prompt really spoke to me. I hope it speaks to you too.
Today’s writing prompt:
Write about three goals (realistic or maybe a little far-reaching) that you would like to achieve in your lifetime.
I have plenty of goals… I love a good ‘to do’ list and even more so, I love to set goals. I have a huge list of short-term goals and a fairly long list of long-term goals. However, today I want to talk about those goals I haven’t had the guts to write out. Three really big, far-reaching, goals that I’d love to achieve but don’t really expect to manage.
I want to make the New York Time’s Best Seller’s List! As an author, that just seems like the ultimate ‘you’ve made it’ moment. I want my books to touch someone. I want them to make a difference in someone else’s life. I want them to be read.
I want to give a Ted Talk… I’d love to talk about writing, being a struggling author, and the hurdles you have to overcome in order to make it. The hurdles you do overcome if you’re really passionate about what you’re writing.
I went to college for acting… I wanted to be an actress. I still do. I do theatre, I’ve done a number of commercials, and for a short period I lived out in Los Angeles and did the whole struggling actor thing booking a few jobs here and there. Hell, I’m even aSAG/AFTRA member. I want, at some point in my lifetime, to get a role I can be truly proud of. I want that ‘you’ve made it’ moment as an actress.
Yeah, those are my three really big goals. Now that I’ve put them out into the universe, who knows, maybe they will manifest. So, what are your goals?
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Write about three goals (realistic or maybe a little far-reaching) that you would like to achieve in your lifetime.
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