Round Up: Week Seventeen

Round Up: Week Seventeen

Last Week’s Prompt:

Use the last text message you received as the basis of a story. Your character receives this message, and it changes everything.

Amanda

The latest text I had received when I decided on the prompt was the middle of a conversation about Waffle Love and waffles in general, hence “Now, if it had been an actual waffle…” I decided on a story about the waffle being a breaking point in a relationship, and I wanted to explore a mother daughter relationship since it wasn’t something I had written before. It is for the reader to decide who was really in the wrong in this relationship- was Jamie truly a careless mother who couldn’t even be bothered to make actual waffles, reminding Carmen of the reasons she left? Or was Carmen a thankless daughter who ruthlessly broke her mother’s heart twice?

Side note: It is scientifically proven that waffles taste better if you make them at midnight. Keep that in mind, dear readers.

MY VOTE: Kylie

Korrin

The only text’s I ever get are apparently from Amanda and Kylie so it was a week before anyone else texted me.  Then it was just my sister trying to spend time with me Labor Day weekend. She is pregnant and likes weird things, so farmers market.  

If you have ever been to one, they ain’t that exciting.  Try writing about one and making it exciting, because it’s kinda impossible.

But I think this is a good lesson.  Writers have to write a lot of things because within that mass there will be really bad stories and things that the author really dislikes.

This one is mine.

MY VOTE: Kylie

Kylie

Not having wifi is literally the worst thing of all time. That, and lack of time.

This story was brought to you courtesy of a friend of mine who likes to sleep past his alarm. A lot. So much that I'm not even sure if he sets an alarm. It was also inspired by some movie I watched once when I was little. A doppelganger was sent to get information out of some dude. This story can be taken as Super Creepy or Slightly Unsettling and I like that it's vague enough to let the reader decide that.

MY VOTE: Korrin

Next Week’s Prompt:

If you, the reader, has been paying any attention, you know that all of us authors are in college. That means that stress abounds.

One of the best ways to deal with stress is to visualize a happy place. Happy places can be real or fictional, you just have to be able to see it and relax.  

Write in detail about a happy place.  This place can be yours or a character’s.  This character can be one of your own, or one that someone else made.

What does it feel like? What does it look like? Smells like? Sounds like? How does your body feel being there? What emotions do you have?

Do your best to make the place come alive.  Focus on the details. This way we can get rid of stress and expand our writing too.