Take a Prompt, Leave a Promt

Erin HopkinsGlowing Halo
Take a Prompt, Leave a Promt
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Nov 3, 2007 - 11 11

I am still trying to figure out where my story is going (I guess I will continue to do so until week 3). I need some prompts!

Leave a prompt here for other people, and take a few to get unstuck (at least for a little bit)

here's mine

start your writing with a description of wet feet
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weinerkuhn

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Location: Lexington, KY
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Posted on:
Nov 3, 2007 - 11 46

Hmmm.... wet feet? Okaaay....

Here's one for you...

Dreams

Kat.M.Stillwell

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Location: United States
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Posted on:
Nov 3, 2007 - 13 06

For character: Open up a phone book. 'Borrow' names.

For a plot: Find the plot ninjas. I know xenachick has them, maybe she'll make a web version.

For everything else: If you google search "writing exercises" you can find tons of prompts.

TabbygirlGlowing Halo
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Posted on:
Nov 4, 2007 - 01 01

I'll take the 'dreams' and leave you with 'crumpled clothing'.

sexywitch22

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Location: Cedar Falls, IA
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Nov 4, 2007 - 04 37

I will see your "crumpled clothing" and raise you a llama.

Ate
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Posted on:
Nov 4, 2007 - 04 57

A description of pink post-it notes.
Something for me? :)

TabbygirlGlowing Halo
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Posted on:
Nov 4, 2007 - 05 28

I will use your pink post its and the llama in the same scene to tie up those loose ends, and I leave you with three uneaten oranges...

Awisreu
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Posted on:
Nov 4, 2007 - 14 14

i'll take the three uneaten oranges one

i leave you with overhearing a conversation of a tourist and a local

nbarbettini
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Posted on:
Nov 4, 2007 - 15 59

I'll take your overheard conversation and leave a pet curled up in a chair.

TabbygirlGlowing Halo
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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 01 18

Beautiful! That is the perfect one for me.

I see the "pet curled in the chair" (literally as well, sweet little kitty of mine) and I offer you a "tumbleweed"

Dragonwings

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Location: North Carolina, USA
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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 03 47

I take your tumbleweed, and leave you some moldy cheese.

Sul-Vento

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Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 07 27

I take your moldy cheese and leave you a disgruntled landlord.

Rayna
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Location: Atoka, TN
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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 09 51

Oh yes! I'll take the disgruntled landlord, which brings up an awesome anecdote for my chapter, and I'll leave you

an antique quilt

Joyful

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Joined: Oct 17, 2007
Location: Beautiful Southern Indiana
Posts: 28
Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 14 45

I'll take your antique quilt.

I'm trading in my great grandfather's anvil, my daughter's notebook, and a picture of a gorgeous man (your interpretation needed here). :o)

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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 16 00

I'll take the anvil, the notebook and the picture of a beautiful man.
and in their place a will leave an unusual locket.

SAIbaby79
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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 16 34

I am taking the unusual locket locket and will leave an espresso addicted hypochonriac.

hyperactive.zero

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Joined: Oct 26, 2007
Location: Cottage Grove, OR
Posts: 49
Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 16 37

I'm not taking anything, but I'll leave an unusually detailed, oft-repeated doodle.

Chexala

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Joined: Oct 28, 2006
Location: Eureka, California
Posts: 6
Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 18 37

I take the oft-repeated doodle and a few other things, and leave a Rubik's cube

MillietheMushy
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Location: Over the rainbow
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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 20 13

Leaving:

Your MC gets a headache.

maggs
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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 21 06

i take the headache and leave...frosted strawberry pop tarts

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Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 21 34

I'll take the frosted strawberry pop tarts and leave you old ugly wallpaper on a grandparent's bedroom wall.

Jhesy

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Location: NC
Posts: 18
Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 21 54

I'll take the wet feet and leave you

a Halloween bucket full of candy wrappers, with one piece of candy still left at the bottom.

batty24546Glowing Halo

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Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 12
Posted on:
Nov 5, 2007 - 22 08

Let me have the candy, and i'll leave you with

A water proof safe, Full of water, left in the middle of the desert.

Rascal Careswell

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Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 9
Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 00 23

I'll take that water-filled waterproof safe and leave you with a pair of gangly teenagers with braces, making out.

sexywitch22

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Location: Cedar Falls, IA
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Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 00 34

I'll take the teens and leave you a mannequin.

ArikeGlowing Halo
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Location: Dordrecht, Netherlands
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Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 03 08

I'll take your mannequin and leave behind a battered dartboard.

Divvy!
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Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 08 27

I'd like to take that dartboard, and I'll leave in its place a homemade birdhouse hanging from a street sign.

starstildawn
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Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 08 31

I'll take the birdhouse and leave behind... a one-eyed chicken.

Rayna
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Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 08 43

Oh, a one-eyed chicken would make a delicious chicken casserole! I'll take it, and leave...

a slimy slug trail

Lentil

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Joined: Oct 27, 2006
Posts: 42
Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 09 06

I'm taking the doodle and leaving...

Finding a stranger in your bathtub.
Getting caught in the rain.
A child with a pink ice cream.
The couple in the apartment next to you having an argument about a mysterious person called 'Phil'.

lasalle202Glowing Halo

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Location: Minneapolis
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Posted on:
Nov 6, 2007 - 10 31

Stolen from NPR, but far too good to waste:

the sound of a prom dress being thrown away

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