Take a Prompt, Leave a Promt

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

Here's one for you...

Dreams

~Mari

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.

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

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

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

AIM: tellelaprairie.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbor's, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

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...

i'll take the three uneaten oranges one

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

chu chu

am train

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

NaNo '07: In Ringshadow (in progress)

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"

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

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

"Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky"

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

wordcount widgets

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)

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

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

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

First NaNo ever, whee!
Title: Caught Between
Genre: I have no idea.
Panic attacks: Too many.

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

Leaving:

Your MC gets a headache.

I may not look like much but deep down...I'm a power ranger.

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

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

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.

2006-En Route to Ennui: Epic failure, gave up mid-month.
2007-Mad Madame Maggalone: Failed, but valiantly attempted.

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.

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

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

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

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Scriptfrenzy 2007: Garf Dealings (with Chorus)
Scriptfrenzy 2008: Fernando's Morado

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

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

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

a slimy slug trail

wordcount widgets

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'.

Stolen from NPR, but far too good to waste:

the sound of a prom dress being thrown away

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)

2006 - Famine: A Novel - failed
2007 - A Midsummer Night's Dream...IN SPACE! - on hold