Day 5: A Choice of Deaths

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 5 Prompts:

Use this plot in a short story: Darkness held a vague terror among these people, even the bravest among them. - Chinua Achebe

Write a story about the end of the world as we know it in which the undead - vampires, werewolves and zombies - dictate the scheme of things. But somehow, one group of the undead gains the whip hand over the others. - Akpan

Word Count: 2k+

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2015 Prompts: Day 5

1. Write a story about the end of the world as we know it in which the undead—vampires, werewolves and zombies—dictate the scheme of things. But somehow, one group of the undead gains the whip hand over the others. — Akpan

2. Use this plot in a short story: Darkness held a vague terror among these people, even the bravest among them. — (From Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”)

3. After a tough year where overall writing goals were not met and new challenges arose, your office supplies (your computer, pens, paperclips, stapler, three-hole- punch, desk lamp—anything else that could be used to support your writing efforts) have lost some faith in you. You’ve decided to rally the troops by giving a State of the Union to them. Deliver your speech (and, if you want, a brief reaction from the supplies). — WritersDigest.Com

4. What if you're going to write a story about confusion with an 8-year old adopted boy as the main character and a rose as the key object. Set your story in a bus station. — CreativeWritingPrompts.Com

Day 4: An Eternity of Nights

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 4 Prompts:
You went to bed like any other night and were out like a log in minutes. But when you woke up, you weren’t at home. You were in a car (that wasn’t yours), wearing clothes (that weren’t yours), and holding a bag full of money (that wasn’t yours). Suddenly, a police car turns on its lights to pull you over. What do you do? — WritersDigest.Com

Write about an ancient gypsy curse. — Writing.Com

Word Count: 2k+

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2015 Prompts: Day 4

1. What is your greatest fear? — CreativeWritingPrompts.Com

2. You went to bed like any other night and were out like a log in minutes. But when you woke up, you weren’t at home. You were in a car (that wasn’t yours), wearing clothes (that weren’t yours), and holding a bag full of money (that wasn’t yours). Suddenly, a police car turns on its lights to pull you over. What do you do? — WritersDigest.Com

3. Write about an ancient gypsy curse. — Writing.Com

4. You’ve been given one of two options: suicide or assassination? If you pick assassination, you’re gone for good. If you take yourself out you get another shot at life but only if. Clause is your enemy gets to choose how you kill yourself. Which do you choose and how does it turn out? — Akpan

Day 3: In the Shadows Walks Something Dark

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 3 Prompt:
You are going on a blind date for Valentine’s Day. In case the date is a dud, you have your best friend on standby. Your friend is to call you at 9:30 on the dot. If the date is going well, you answer and use the phrase “I already took care of that.” If it’s not, you answer and claim your friend has an emergency. The date is going well and your friend calls at 9:30 as planned— only problem is, the friend calls with a real emergency. What is it and what do you do? —WritersDigest.Com

Sit in the rain with your eyes closed. Describe the setting based on hearing and smell. —Writing.Com

Word Count: 2k+

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 2: Like Death Warmed Over

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 2 Prompt:
Sometimes we pick up a book or read an article at the exact moment it's so needed. Write a story in which one of your characters is going through a difficult time and picks up a book that changes his outlook. Have your character become so connected with the book that he feels like it was written for him. Who knows, maybe it was? — Poets&Writers

Use this plot in a short story: A man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father. — (From Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”)

Word Count: 2k+

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2015 Prompts: Day 3

1. You are going on a blind date for Valentine’s Day. In case the date is a dud, you have your best friend on standby. Your friend is to call you at 9:30 on the dot. If the date is going well, you answer and use the phrase “I already took care of that.” If it’s not, you answer and claim your friend has an emergency. The date is going well and your friend calls at 9:30 as planned— only problem is, the friend calls with a real emergency. What is it and what do you do? — WritersDigest.Com

2. Sit in the rain with your eyes closed. Describe the setting based on hearing and smell. — Writing.Com

3. Do you have a buddy that also enjoys writing? This week, write something in the voice of your friend. Ask her for a particular topic to focus on, or just let your imagination run wild. It may be fun to have your friend do the same for you and swap stories once you’re both finished. — Poets&Writers

4. Use this plot in a short story: Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. — (From Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”)

IntShoWriMo 2015 Prompts: Day 2

1. A team of royally blocked writers set out on an adventure; end up crashing their Beechcraft airplane into the beach of an isolated island only to discover it’s the Isle of the Buried Bestsellers. What happens next? — Akpan

2. Monkeys like bananas and bananas grow on trees, so of course it would happen that... — Writing.Com

3. Sometimes we pick up a book or read an article at the exact moment it's so needed. Write a story in which one of your characters is going through a difficult time and picks up a book that changes his outlook. Have your character become so connected with the book that he feels like it was written for him. Who knows, maybe it was? — Poets&Writers

4. Use this plot in a short story: A man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father. — (From Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”)

Day 1: 200 Kinds of Fool

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 1 Prompt: "Write a story about a lady who buys a picture in a pawnshop and then kind of falls through it into a parallel universe. (From Stephen King’s “On Writing”)"

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2015 Prompts: Day 1

1. A frozen pond in the middle of the desert catches the attention of scientists from around the world. — Writing.Com

2. Start your story with "April showers bring May flowers, at least, that's what my ______ used to tell me." Then end your story with story with, "And that, officer, is why I had to murder my ______."  — WritersDigest.Com

3. Write a story about a lady who buys a picture in a pawnshop and then kind of falls through it into a parallel universe. (From Stephen King’s “On Writing”)

4. Use this plot in a short story: The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself. — (From Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”)