This week I’m giving you some more traditional prompts, where one element of your story is dictated by me. (Oh, the power!)
The Prompt
Write A Story Set At A Wedding
Tips
- The conflict in this story can be micro-scale (a guest reflecting on a deeply personal challenge, brought into the light by this landmark occasion) or dramatic (a headline-worthy bust-up, with generations of family tension erupting in a hot, molten mess).
- Weddings are often the scene of comic stories because of the solemnity inherent in the occasion. But I was at a super-fun wedding recently. A story set at that wedding would lend itself to a solemn moment as an abrupt change of pace.
- You can say a lot about your characters without beating the reader over the head with it, by describing which traditions your wedding principals and guests choose to honor (or flout). You can get rich cultural mileage out of this setting.
- You can choose another culturally significant/religious event to write about if weddings really aren’t doing it for you.
Go!
I give up! It’s Rennaissance Faire season around here, and so I have such music playing ’round the clock. Thus, the only wedding songs that come to mind have to do with death, which I’ve sworn off for a bit, or selkies which I do not have the courage to attempt. I’m throwing in the towel.
For the day, or for the month?
I do have to say that a short story a day is much harder than a poem a day, and I consider myself more a prose writer than a poet. Here’s today’s attempt. At first, the prompt made me groan. Then, I started to remember all sorts of hilarious wedding related tales. This one is among them.
http://guptacarlsonshortstories.blogspot.com/2013/05/name-game.html
Here are two wedding stories 🙂 http://starvingactivist.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/story-a-day-12-wedded-bliss/
Done. Have done a wedding story in a while. It was a challenge. Now I get to relax. At sarahcain78.com.
Woot! Days 7-12 are now posted. I suppose now I really must attend to paying bills and chores. 🙂
http://tidbitsbyshannon.blogspot.com/
Well, that one just worked! Maybe I’m getting the hang of it…