Round Up: Week Six

Prompt: Write a story using the most vivid dream you can remember. You can change the characters in it if you wish, but the plot should stay the same.

Amanda

As soon as I read the prompt for this week, I was really excited because I think I have pretty freaking cool dreams. Unfortunately… as soon as I tried to remember them, I couldn’t remember ever having a dream in my life. The only one I can remember details of, even now, was the basis of this story- I dreamt I was in my church building and there was a picture of Ariel with a crown on and somebody was trying to convince me the crown was a clue. Also I spent most of the dream looking for a bathroom.

I wrote the poem because I can’t dream in poetry and changed myself to Cinderella (called Ella in the story) and whoever was talking to me to Philip. I love Disney and the idea that their hidden secrets within movies could actually be clues to a quest. Disney, you should get on that, I know plenty of disneyphiles who would love a good quest with clues hidden in classic movies, with or without a fortune waiting at the end. Maybe just like a really cool hidden mickey and a dole whip stand.

MY VOTE: Kylie

Korrin

I wrote this story at 11 o’clock at night so my brain was kinda dead.  The dream I wrote about was the only reoccurring dream I have ever had.  The captain in my dream really was my mother and she really did stab me in the chest and it was terrible and awful, mostly because you can’t go and sleep in your parents bed after your mom kills you in a nightmare.  I picked the dream because I had had it so often and it still frightens me to this day.

MY VOTE: Kylie

Kylie

NOTE: I published my story early Wednesday morning. I hit publish. I made sure it went up. And for some reason, it did not publish. So I claim sanctuary.

Don’t hate me because I was late this week, hate me because I’m the fairest in all the land. Just don’t be offended if I turn down any apples you try to offer me.

I had to try to find something off-limits this week. I have so many dreams that evolve into the basis of one of my future novels that it was difficult to find something. That contributed to my lateness, along with other personal stuff. So for this prompt, I wrote about the time I met a genuine rock star in one of my dreams. Except in my dream, it was Pink, and I spent the rest of the dream waiting for her to call me back. It was quite rude of her to leave me hanging like that. I would have even settled for a text. I also left out the part where after the commercial was done shooting and they had cleaned up the plaza, Joss Whedon showed up and started filming the end credits scene for Age of Ultron. The crew noticed that I was trying to take Snapchat pictures/videos, so they started taping up things over our windows so that we couldn’t leak pictures. Unfortunately, all they had was paper plates, so we had paper plates very hastily and poorly taped over our windows.

I still got awesome pictures, though.

I’m fairly happy with how it turned out, but I think I’m far happier with the fact that I actually got something written.

MY VOTE: Korrin

Next Week’s Prompt:

As a writer, the number one thing we are told is “AVOID CLICHES AT ALL COSTS.” So this week, we’re writing with cliches. But--plot twist!--you have to earn your cliche. Does this mean it’s literal? Does this mean it’s figurative? Does this mean it has to prove a point and ends up as a terrible pun, as commonly happens in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis? IT DOESN’T MATTER! Just earn it.