Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinting into a tin bucket.
-From “Thirteen Writing Prompts” by Dan Wiencek in McSweeney’s website.
All the other ones are just as crazy as this one and some even more. You guys should check [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Prompts & Exercises’
October 7, 2008
a writing prompt
September 5, 2008
Has it really been that long??
Oh my goodness. My baby is already eight and half months old, he laughs, he jumps from happiness and sometimes, when he’s in a good mood he forces a laugh just to make me smile almost like if he’s saying “I’m happy mommy, you’re happy too right?” He knows things already, it’s true when people say that babies are smart, they really [...]
July 30, 2008
Reading. Arm. Leaf. Exercise with Gayle.
Think of a verb (ending in -ing), a body part, and an inanimate object.
Start off like this: “After a long day of VERB, s/he discovered that her/his BODY PART was growing INANIMATE OBJECT…”
After a long day of reading, she discovered that her arm was growing a leaf. She wondered how long this one would take [...]
