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    A couple of writing prompts

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    1) Write about a conversation between a group of co-conspirators. What kind of kingdom or government or organization are they conspiring against? Are they good or evil? What are their plans?

    2) Come up with a set of questions or "mysteries". Write a story exploring these mysteries and what they are about. What is the unanswered question in your story? Is it about a person, place, or thing?

    3) Take an inanimate object you see every day and make it into a living character. Describe your character/object. Does it talk? What does it say? What is its personality? Now write a short story in which this object speaks to the audience.

    4) There's a person on the bus talking on their cell phone so you only hear their side of the conversation. What are they saying? Are they angry or sad? How do the people around them react to what they're saying?

    5) Describe something you would like to see invented that would make your life easier. Now write a TV commercial or a newspaper article advertising this new invention.
     
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    1) Create your own unique club. What kind of people do you admit to this club? What kind of characteristics make them potential members? Are there any hazing rituals that are performed as an initiation into your club? What is your club called and what do you do in it? Now write a story from the perspective of a character who is trying to get into the club.

    2) Come up with your own original disorder. Now portray a patient speaking to their doctor about their symptoms. How does the doctor react? Are the symptoms relatively common or totally bizarre?

    3) Come up with your own unique star, planet, or celestial phenomenon. What has it helped astronomers learn about our place in the universe? Can it be seen by the naked eye? What are the unusual properties of this thing? Now write an astronomy magazine/journal article about it.

    4) You're sending out a sky lantern out into the sky. Is there a special spiritual significance for this for you? Did you write down a wish and send it out into the sky with the lantern?

    5) Think of a coincidence that has happened in your life and use it as the basis for a narrative in which the coincidence was not an accident. What really caused it? What kind of difference did it make in your life? Do you believe it was your destiny?
     
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    1) Come up with a family of characters, each with their own unique personality. Are the kids rowdy or well-behaved? Do the parents get along and support each other or no? Now create a typical family dinner night conversation between the family. Do they argue or is their conversation congenial?

    2) Create a character with one or more of the following psychological functions: Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, or Intuition. How do they employ this function in their dealings with everyday life?

    3) Write a story in which an interesting conversation gets interrupted by an unforeseeable event. What’s more interesting – the conversation or the event? What were your characters talking about and what event interrupted them?

    4) There is a prized historical relic up for auction. What’s the story behind it and it’s historical significance? How much are you willing to pay for it? If you get it, what will you do with it? What could it be used for in the wrong hands? Explain these things to your friend who is at the auction with you.

    5) Come up with a legend or long-lost lore. It could be about something that happened long ago – who was involved? Does it include some high-tech or magical objects?

    6) Depict a fight between a married couple. What triggered this fight? Was it a long time in coming? Was there a lot of yelling or no?

    7) Is destiny governed by the personal forces of an omnipotent deity, or is it mostly random luck or chance? Have a character undergo an event and explain what happens to them in relation to the nature of their fortune. Was this event good or bad?
     
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    So I came up with one of these myself and the ideas for the others I found on the internet but I changed them and made them my own. If you found a particular prompt inspiring let me know! Or if you can reword a prompt to make it better post a reply!

    1) Come up with a new disease with it’s own unique symptoms. Portray a character who catches this disease and the stages of infection that he or she goes through. Is this disease curable? Is it terminal? Does it have a name?

    2) Write about a ship, car, bus, motorcycle, hot air balloon, airplane or any other vehicle you can think of. You climb on board and begin a wonderful new journey. Where will it take you? What will you do while you take in your surroundings?

    3) Write about two people who make eye contact somewhere in public. Are they strangers or do they know each other? What is the meaning behind it? Do they act on it or ignore it? Stretch out the moment in which they make eye contact for as long as you can.

    4) Write about a character or yourself who is doing laundry, the dishes or any other chores you can think of. What is unusual about this ordinary set of chores that your character is doing?

    5) Write about a character who is dreading some future event. At some moment they are going to have to do something they don’t want to do. Write a whole story about how they are living through their anxiety but keep the reader in suspense by revealing what it is only at the very end (or don’t reveal it at all).

    6) Write about a fictional professor who is an expert in some specific field of study. Describe this character. What is their specialty? Are they young or old? Have they written any books? How do they treat their students? What do they look like? Write an anecdote about this professor and some of their typical behaviors.
     
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    Here's another set of prompts - some of them were inspired by prompts I found on the internet by googling "creative writing prompts" but I modified them to make them my own.

    1) Write about something you love doing. Depict a character doing this activity. Go into detail and show why this character loves doing this.

    2) Write about a place without using any adjectives. In other words - tell a story about it. What happened or is happening there?

    3) Write about a character who is struggling to adjust to society's or their parents expectations for them. Try to include dialogue to show rather than tell about their struggle. What kinds of norms are they rebelling against?

    4) Create a character with an endearing human flaw. Depict the character as he or she struggles with their weakness. To create suspense in your story you could keep the reader guessing at what the flaw actually is.

    5) Write about someone who has resolved to leave their old life behind and start completely fresh in the new year. What has caused them to make this decision? What were they unhappy with in their old life? What are they going to do in a new way?
     
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    Ok - I guess the admins want me to keep all my writing prompts in one thread LoL so I'll reply here ...

    So since it's Earth Day tomorrow I decided to have my short stories class write something based on a set of Earth Day specific prompts. These are five original prompts that my Member Advisory Committee helped me come up with:

    A) Write a story about a plastic planet or moon that orbits the Earth and acts as a depository for all the Earth’s trash. (this one specifically was my own personal idea and I wrote a little one-page long short story based on it)

    B) Set your story in a world where people don’t create any waste. How would people live and go about their business?

    C) Set your story in a world where trees are sentient and corn fields form unions.

    D) Write a newspaper or magazine article about a new invention that cleans the world’s oceans or finds new ways to use all different kinds of trash.

    E) Write a story set in a world where everyone donates their body to nature either by having a tree planted on top of their grave or having their ashes scattered into the ocean.
     
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    Some more original prompts which I came up with:

    1) A character is found wandering around and doesn’t remember who they are or where they’re from. What happened to them? Where were they found? Who found them and what do they do now?

    2) A pencil and an eraser have a forbidden romance.

    3) Make up your own unique mental illness/disorder. Look up the characteristics of known disorders to find a clue about how to describe your made up disorder. Or you could jot down a few of your own or someone else's personality characteristics and exaggerate them and pathologize them.

    4) Write an advertisement for a Rolex watch that turns invisible when it’s wearer isn’t looking at it.

    5) Write a technical manual for a futuristic device which employs a lot of techno-babble. Try as best as you can to explain what it does and how it works.

    6) Write a story that starts and/or ends with the statement “Inspired thought has the power to change the world.”

    7) Start or end your story with a character chanting to themselves over and over - “I have value because I am a human being.”

    8) Your character decides to turn their life around by trying to include more spiritual enrichment activities in their life. What do they do? What behaviors are they trying to avoid or run away from?

    9) Make up a villain who has teeth made out of diamonds.

    10) Write a philosophical treatise centered around the question “If your whole body went numb, how would you know that you still exist?”
     
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    1) Write about someone in the throes of anosognosia - the condition of being in denial about an illness.

    2) Write about Mamihlapinatapai - a look that without words is shared by two people who want to initiate something, but that neither will start.

    3) Scientists come across a $100 dollar bill that hasn’t been printed yet and assume it’s counterfeit.

    4) Title your story “The Flea Hunter”.

    5) Write a story that somehow involves a black cat.

    6) Include a wet handkerchief in your story.

    Some of these prompts may seem simplistic but I've found that sometimes leaving a prompt short and simple gives more free reign to creativity as it relies on the writer's interpretation of the prompt. Of course, you're also free to change the prompt in any way you like or combine two or three prompts together (or add on qualifiers like "using only dialogue ..." etc.)
     
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    1) Write an essay or a story portraying a character contemplating the following question: “Why is fighting or the willingness to fight for something seen as a test of character?” Is there an event or situation that makes the character face this question now?

    2) Write a journal/diary entry from inside a magicians notebook. What is the magician planning? Have they figured out some alchemical formula or spell? Is this magician good or evil?

    3) Write a story using a __________ as a symbol. What does it symbolize and how do you portray or hint at its symbolic meaning in your story?

    4) Write about a character who has some kind of near-death experience. Take the characters perspective and narrate the experience from their point of view.

    5) What do the spirits of dead people do with all of their free time, after they’ve died?
     
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    1) You are an established therapist and this is the first time that you’ve seen a whole family come in for therapy together. What is this family like? What are they there for? Depict a session of therapy with this family.

    2) Start your story with the following statement: “Dreams, like many things in life, are very meaningful and realistic at the time that they’re experienced.”

    3) In the future, Google develops a new technology which controls all self-driven cars called DTR or “Dynamic Traffic Redirect”. Write a newspaper article about this new technology. Create your own techno-babble or use the internet to research what you need to know to write this article.

    4) What do you think is the most important thing for today’s kids to learn in school? Write a letter to your congressman advocating for this thing to be taught.

    5) What are you recovering from right now? Write a story depicting a day in your future in which you will have already recovered completely.

    6) Start your story with the following statement: “Your biggest assets are oftentimes things that you don’t even know you have.”
     
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    1) In what way are you strong? Write a list of your strengths and exaggerate them to the maximum degree in a story depicting you as a superhero.

    2) Write a story in which children rule the world. How do they obtain their authority and why does everyone else listen to them?

    3) Write about a character that vomits every time they tell a lie or even a half-truth.

    4) You’re spending the night in a cave when you notice that the air flowing through the cave alternates between hot and cold and changes direction as if some gigantic creature is breathing!

    5) Complete this thought: “Someone really needs to design a better _______.” You could expound on all the complaints you have against this invention or try to think of ways in which it could be improved or both! Your story could be written in the form of a critical magazine or newspaper article.

    6) Have you ever had a memory that you’re not entirely sure was real? How do you explain this memory? Write a story somehow inspired by this memory (maybe depicting your memory in a journal entry).
     
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    1) Write a story about a world where everyone is like you.

    2) Write a “Thank You” note to someone, thanking them for some unusual fictional deed that they did. As an added twist you could reveal what you’re thanking them for only at the very end.

    3) What do you find most important to you during the holidays? Write a story depicting these important things through the experiences of a fictional character or characters.

    4) Look back on your childhood and write about an activity you used to do as a kid growing up that has affected who you’ve become today. Reflect on the days you used to do this activity and include the words “If not for those days …”

    5) Write about a song and the memories or feelings it evokes in you. Your story could take the form of a tribute or homage in which you juxtapose the lyrics of the song alongside your story.

    6) Reflect on the following sociological truism: “Society prepares the crime - the criminal commits it.” You can use it to introduce a shady character or a series of unfortunate events which lead a character down the wrong path in life.
     
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    1) During your story, a club or official organization meets and goes over its business, complete with a president, treasurer, and secretary. Usually, such a meeting would be mundane and boring but this is different because __________.

    2) Write a story about a band of travelers.

    3) What one issue is most important to you when voting for political candidates? Write a short political pamphlet promoting a fictional political candidate that you approve of.

    4) Write about a magical scarf that has its own personality. It tries to either strangle you or tickle you when you put it on.

    5) Is the world today a better or worse place than it was when you were a kid? Write a short essay presenting your case using evidence to support your argument.

    6) Write about a character who has the weirdest, most outlandish job description. Depict your character doing their job on a typical day.

    7) Write about a character who has one special personality trait that makes them different from anyone else.

    8) Write a story in which your character is having a conversation with someone who is never quoted as having said anything.
     
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    1) Write your own obituary that you’d like to have read at your funeral. Include all the accomplishments you’d still like to make as if you’ve already achieved them.

    2) Depict a character being bullied. Practice your assertiveness by writing a character who steps in to stand up to the bully in your story.

    3) A child has done something very wrong. Depict how their parent(s) would react to their actions. To add suspense or humor to the story you could wait till the end to reveal what it was that they did.

    4) An ad hominem argument is an argument appealing to feelings and prejudices rather than the intellect, or an argument based on an attack on the opponent’s character rather than the issue at hand. Write a story in which one of your characters uses an ad hominem argument. Flex your speech and debate skills!

    5) Two characters insult each other in the beginning of your story, but by the end they become friends. Make it as realistic and believable as you can.

    6) Vietnamese culture considers green jade statuettes to be good luck. They protect those around them from evil spirits who didn’t reincarnate. Come up with a unique object and cultural meaning for a unique culture of your own creation.

    7) Write a story in which people with a certain profession rule the world (or are the ruling class).

    8) When children are born, their clothes are usually color coded - blue for boys, pink for girls. Come up with a different socially constructed system of color coding and it’s associated meanings for humans or a completely different species living elsewhere.
     
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    1) Is there anything you are ever a snob about? Write about a character acting snobbish about something or being coarse towards someone.

    2) Come up with a family or group having dinner together that has the most bizarre or outlandish table manners or customs that you can come up with. How did these customs come to be? What’s the backstory or history behind them?

    3) Set your story in a town full of outcasts. Why were these people rejected by society?

    4) Write about a character who is facing a dilemma: do they take a risk or stay in their safe zone? What is this risk they’re considering? Depict them facing this dilemma through a stream of consciousness.

    5) Write about a character who can’t wait to rush home and do something that they’ve been looking forward to all day.

    6) Write about a character who is lost. They could be lost in an unfamiliar place, lost in their own mind, or at a loss about how to go about doing some task.

    7) Write about a character who fails to pay attention to something important during your story and lives to regret it.
     
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    1) Write a story that contains some form of circular causality. You could do this through literally including time travel in your story or just include a series of events that seem to come full circle and repeat every once in a while.

    2) Write about two best friends. One of them is an only child while the other is part of a huge family. How do they approach life differently?

    3) Write about gremlins, pixies or sprites (or some other type of creature) living inside of your refrigerator.

    4) Write an acceptance speech for the most bizarre and outlandish award you can think of.

    5) Your character and their therapist are going over a very important plan that they’ve devised together. What is this plan about? As a way of keeping the suspense in the conversation you could keep the reader guessing about what the plan is about exactly or what they’ve devised it for.

    6) Your character is experiencing role fatigue. They can’t manage all the roles they have to play throughout your story and even manage to mix them up.

    7) There is a special person in your story with the ability to erase memories. Do they use their gift for good or evil? Which memories do they erase?

    8) Your character’s living space or workspace is a huge mess. Depict them as they go about their day trying to clean it up.

    9) Write about a character who refuses to cross a line they have set for themselves.

    10) Write a reflective essay contrasting easy, simple things with difficult and complex things.

    11) Your character is taking too long to do something. Why do they linger, wait or procrastinate so?

    12) Write a short biographical description of a character (encapsulating their whole life in a few short paragraphs) whose life events inevitably lead them to becoming more and more like their parents.

    13) Your character's least favorite sibling has gotten ahold of a very important item of great sentimental value. What item is it and what will they do to get it back?

    14) Write about a fully automated household where each household chore is delegated to a device responsible for it.

    15) Your character stays up all night. Are they working on something? Or are they too stressed out or excited to sleep?
     
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    This prompt reminded me of the protagonist of American Gods (the book), one of my favourite characters, despite his overwhelming blandness, for this exact reason. He starts out fatigued by his role and it just gets worse and worse until, by the time the fine but flawed plot has concluded, you are amazed he even let it get there. It is such a human thing, being bland and tired and imagining you could be less bland but you just don't care enough to do anything about it, and going through hell because its easier than changing track, even when the other track is obviously going to be easier.
     
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    Occurred to me that these are the kind of magical Rolex's sold to Russian plutocrats. If you're in the inner circle* then your Rolex comes with a life-time guarantee of photo airbrushing and media intimidation. Only limit to this invisibility is the airbrush-monkeys' tendency to forget reflections in glass tables and so on.

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    * Say, Patriarch Kirill, to use a totally random and unsubstantiated example. What? What pictures?
     
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    1) Write an essay reflecting on all the different clothes you’ve ever worn or the changes in fashion you’ve seen throughout your life.

    2) Your character has a head cold and finds a new and creative way to treat their malady.

    3) The judge pronounces your character “Guilty!” and begins their sentencing.

    4) An expert in __________ shows up in your short story and educates everyone.

    5) Your character spends most of your story giving someone else some bizarre and outlandish advice. Was this advice-giving prompted or unwanted? And what is the problem being addressed?

    6) Your character has spent a long time in solitary confinement and has come up with many unique and interesting games that they play with themselves to stay sane.

    7) Write about a character who hates some of the best and your most favorite foods. How do they express their dislike?

    8) Write about a character who wears something that they have made by hand. What does this object say about them?

    9) An event transpires repeatedly during your story but in slightly different and varied ways.

    10) Depict the weirdest date between two badly mismatched characters that you can concoct.

    11) Write about an organization that has a snake as its mascot or on its logo.

    12) Your character is harping on and on about all the things that are overrated in the world (or in their world).

    13) Your character gets sent to a special rehabilitation facility in space. What’s so special about this facility and why is your character being sent there?

    14) Write a story that is set in a very distracting environment. What makes it so distracting?

    15) Your character is at a banquet that is being thrown in their honor. People all around them are complimenting and congratulating them for something. What is the occasion for this?
     
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    Hope you don't mind me joining in.
    1. Your compost bin is speaking to you.
    2. For the likes: A self described influencer and her idiot half brother come up with an ill-advised scheme
     
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    1) Your character makes a seasonal trip to a place where they store all their old stuff, whether an attic, a garage, or a basement (or any other place that can store things). What do they find there?

    2) Write the most sarcastic, dark-humored and scornful “Thank You” note you can come up with. Why would your character write this note?

    3) Your character is pretending to be someone else online. What are they up to?

    4) Your character is composing a piece of music. What kind of music are they composing and what historical era are they writing it in? What is the story/history behind the piece they’re writing?

    5) Write about the most memorable or bizarre activity you’ve ever done at night instead of sleeping.

    6) Your character has a bad habit that they’re trying to quit. What is this bad habit and what measures have they undertaken to keep themselves from engaging in it?

    7) There’s a magical piece of furniture in your old childhood home. What is it and what does it do?

    8) Write the most detailed and involved description of a piece of (fictional or real) jewelry that you can. What is the story or history behind it?

    9) Your character has a unique way of coping/soothing themselves when they become upset or angry.

    10) Describe yourself from the point of view of a stranger who observes you throughout your day.

    11) Write about a character who has just entered their retirement and is looking to busy themselves with some (either bizarre or ordinary) leisure activities.

    12) Reflect on the most offensive thing you’ve ever heard anyone say. To keep the reader in suspense you could reveal this offensive thing only at the very end … or not at all!

    13) Your character is at the cemetery and is contemplating the meaning of life. Describe them and the prayer that they offer up to their lost loved one(s).

    14) Your character is an architect that has been tasked with designing a building with a bunch of secret passages and hidden rooms. What is the purpose of this building and its many concealments?

    15) Your character has the most outrageous and bizarre column/blog. What is it about? Give the reader a sample of their kind of writing!

    16) What is the most bizarre and outlandish food you can come up with? Have a character eat this food sometime during your story and describe their reaction.

    17) Somewhere in your story, your character reflects on how much the world has changed since they were a kid.

    18) During your story your character inherits, not a large sum of money, but a mysterious item left in their possession.

    19) Your character lives onboard a skybound city. How does it manage to float among the clouds and what does life look like for your character?

    20) Your character is the best in the world at a bizarre and unusual activity. What is this activity and how did your character get so good at it?
     
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    1) During the course of your story, your character is given a new name. Is this some kind of rite of passage for your character? Or is your character being made fun of? Does the new name fit your character's personality?

    2) End your story with someone saying “That’s the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard!”

    3) Write an ode to motherhood or to the qualities that make mothers (or your mother) great.

    4) There is a character in your story who keeps trying to give people compliments, but it just comes off as an attempt at flattery.

    5) Your character is compiling a book of letters of advice to people from various walks of life and professions. Give the reader a taste of the kind of advice they offer.

    6) Your character is making a sandwich with the most unusual mix of ingredients they can muster.

    7) Your character is in charge of hiring a new employee for the weirdest and most bizarre job that’s ever been heard of. Depict the interview.

    8) Write about a character who is totally different from the rest of their family. What sets your character apart or makes them so unique?

    9) Your character just bought the most outrageous music album ever heard of. Describe the cover and the songs included in it. Why did your character buy it?

    10) Your character is a sobering buzz-kill of a person. Describe some of the things that they tell people.

    11) Write a story about someone who is losing or finding their religion for the first time.

    12) Write a reflective essay considering the question “Would you rather be loved or feared and why?”

    13) Write a letter of advice to a friend who seems to keep falling into deep, dark holes of depression. What can you say to help brighten up their day?
     
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    1) Write a chapter out of a fictional religious tome of your own making. It could be an origin story, a morality story, a story of warning, or a story about what happens to us after we die.

    2) In the future, punishment will take on a whole new meaning, for better or worse. Describe how punishment will function in the future.

    3) Write about a day in the life of a character (or creature) who does nice things for people when they aren’t watching. Nobody ever has a chance to thank them for their good deeds.

    4) A character in your story keeps repeating an action which should very obviously be a mistake.

    5) Your character is reading the most bizarre or unusual eulogy at a funeral.

    6) Write about someone who has the most bizarre way of trying to make the world a better place.

    7) Your character is snooping around their partner’s or best friend's room. What do they find there and do they get caught?

    8) Write about a character who is an obsessive-compulsive recycler.

    9) Your character just bought an android and decides to set up its personality characteristics before turning it on.

    10) There is a restaurant that just opened in a war zone. Depict a typical day.

    11) Your character has the most luxurious bathroom in the world. Describe it.

    12) Write a story featuring a talking parrot letting your character know what to do or how to solve a mystery.

    13) Write about a parasite that lives inside people, controlling their thoughts and actions and propagating their species through kissing.

    14) Write about a family who is trying to teach their young child some unusual manners.

    15) Write a story somehow featuring your favorite phrase, poem, or lyric from a song.

    16) Write about a character who is writing the most outlandish list of things that they’ll never do.

    17) Write about a character who is part of your favorite sports team.

    18) Describe a typical winter's day in a fictional town of your creation.
     
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    1) In your story, feature the most bizarre Christmas recipe you can think of.

    2) In your story, describe an insect’s or small creatures’ journey through a bookshelf.

    3) During your story a teacher gives a very interesting lecture about something you are very knowledgeable about.

    4) Set your story in a city unlike any you’ve ever been to or heard of.

    5) Write about someone who is completely reinventing themselves.

    6) Feature a well deserved innuendo or pun in your story.

    7) A child in your story is given the most bizarre homework assignment.

    8) Set your story in a special school with the most bizarre forms of discipline.

    9) Your character is a know-it-all with an aversion to any little incorrect fact.
     
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