500 Club (8/9)
Hang on. It’s Thursday already?!
Time for the 500 Club!
Before we get to today’s prompts, here’s a quick recap of the rules.
- Choose one of the prompts below.
- On your blog, write a 500-word story or scene based on the prompt.
- Post a teaser to your story in the comments below with a link to where we can read the rest.
Ready to write? Here are today’s prompts, inspired by this week’s topic: dialogue.
1. Write a scene with a ticking clock. Figurative or literal, this scene must have a countdown, a deadline, a looming axe about to fall. Go.
…or…
2. Write a scene featuring the character you love to write the most, but set the scene twenty years in the future. Who is your character now and what impact did the adventures twenty years earlier have on him or her?
Happy writing. Remember, no pressure. This is for fun!
“How many, now?”
The ward’s technician, distracted by something on his Pad and wanting Holbrooke to wait, held up a single finger. For a moment, Holbrooke thought the man meant it as an answer to his question, meant ‘one’ instead of ‘hang on a minute, friend’, meant that Holbrooke had one pulse left between him and oblivion.
http://www.agincourtdb.com/2012/08/the-tell-tale-pulse.html
make it pretty
James told me not to make any noise. It’s hard, though–like when we were kids and he would make me laugh during church. Momma pinched the back of my arm if I embarrassed her, so I tried to hold it in, but that only made things funnier. Read more…