Round Up: Week 21

Last Week’s Prompt:

For the group of words, write around them to create a scene, story, or poem:

Bag, Handle, Glass, Date, Black, Walk

Kylie

I finished my story first this week! It's a Christmas miracle!

This week was dark, yeah, but really liked it. Since we had such a specific list of things to include, I wanted to focus pretty heavily on language rather than story, and I wanted to use the list of words in (possibly) unexpected ways. And without the benefit of a chorus of voices telling me whether or not they liked what I wrote, I will hesitantly yet strongly say that I think I did a good job. I really love my language in this one, and I feel like a success.

MY VOTE: Korrin

Amanda

As often happens close to finals week, I was in the midst of an existential crisis when I thought up the idea for the story. I watched Eat, Pray, Love a few weeks ago and decided it was a good enough movie to inspire you to do stupid, spontaneous things. So my character does just that; gets fed up with our society where you work so hard at a job you hate to keep living and working at the job you hate and decided to run off with a disappointingly non-Italian young man.

MY VOTE: Korrin

Korrin

Only one day late! Whoo, this is good.

Going on a date seemed like a normal way to think about the list of words. So that’s what I wrote, except with the twist at the end. I haven’t had the opportunity to write a spy story yet and I was really happy where the story went. For once I actually started the story knowing where it was going. Because I knew what I wanted I was able to be more vague and misleading in the beginning. At least that’s how I think it reads. Maybe I’m predictable.

I also intentionally made sure to not let the reader know who was the good guy. My character murdered a man, but maybe he was a terrible human being. Maybe she was an assassin. It is up to the reader to decide.

MY VOTE: Amanda

Next week’s prompt:

This week, we’re really getting into the spirit of Thanksgiving by writing about something I’m very grateful for: my favorite super being, Florida Man.

Find a news story/headline about the ever-entertaining Florida Man and write the true story behind the headline.

For those who are unaware of Florida Man, simply google the two words “Florida” and “man” next to each other and then read about all the crazy people that get in trouble in Florida. And if you choose a Florida Woman story instead, I won’t be angry.