Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.
Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bulls from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinating into a tin bucket.
Your main character finds a box of scorched human hair. Whose is it? How did it get there? Write this as a short play.
Write a story that is an exchange between two individuals taking place on the "Missed Connections" section of craigslist.org. Alternately, two people meet each other on Craigslist, only to have one of them discover a terrible secret. Write a scene in which they run into each other at Qdoba the next day.
Write a story in which a forest fire is a good thing.
The Letter E is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet. The letters N, S, T, and R are the four most commonly used consonants. Write a story that either doesn't use E, doesn't use N, S, T, R, or doesn't use S, T, E, R, N.
( I have anger issues. )Chorea sancti viti is Latin for "St. Vitus' Dance." It is really a debilitating muscle disorder. Write the summary of a musical about this horrible ailment.
Jot down a work that does not have any word with more than four... letters.
( I also like inflicting issues. )Write a college entry essay revolving around a very memorable sandwich. What kind of sandwich was it? Where did you get it?
( I'm not sure where this was going. )Tom Stoppard's famous play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, revolves around two minor characters from Hamlet. Do something like that. You can't use Hamlet. And you can't use Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, or you'll break postmodernism.
Have you ever heard of a snowclone? Examples of snowclones are "X is the new Y," ("pink is the new black,") or "What Would X Do?" (What Would Batman Do?") where X and Y can be replaced by a variety of things to create an instantly recognizable trope by lazy writers and journalists. Pretend you're writing an ironic piece for the New Yorker in which you give suggestions for new snowclones. Make sure this isn't boring.
The year is 2031. Nick Nornby is 74. He is writing his 36th book. What is it?
Render a great work of literature into a limerick.
Write a story from the first person POV without using the word "I." Has to be grammatically correct.
Write a scene that takes place on a paddle boat in a state park. It may be any state park. The paddle boat may be shaped like any animal, but it must be shaped like an animal.
Write an epistolary (story composed of letters) between two or more characters. Teh first letter must be posted in 1993. All other letters must be posted after 1999. You may not include any details that could come up during a high school reunion (marriage, jobs, college, etc). If your story has four or more characters, one of the characters must have received the letter in error, and responded to it anyway.
Write a series of short journal entries as written by a literary/artistic figure. One of the entries must include the phrase (in caps) IT JUST MAKES ME SO MAD ARRRGGGHH, and another must describe a classified/personal/etc ad they wrote or responded to, and the results.
"Hoarding" is a form of OCD the acquisition of, and failure to use or discard, such a large number of seemingly useless possessions that it causes significant clutter and impairment to basic living activities such as mobility, cooking, cleaning, showering, and sleeping. Use this in a story.
Write a story that includes the following: a wedding, a divorce, a lovely trip on a boat, pasta salad, an Intro to Drawing class, incest, a harangue, a car chase, a deck of cards, Antonio Bandaras (may be substituted for other Latin American celebrity), a hand-rolled cigarette, a mention of the state of Kentucky (no characters may be from or have ever visited this state, nor may they know anyone who ever has), a tumbleweave, Lupus, an untouched bowl of candy corn (story cannot take place in the month of October), bedbugs, and junk mail. Your story must fit into the following box:
( It fit into the box. )Credit, for the most part, goes to S. Clark.. or so I've been told?