Today, take a few minutes to notice your surroundings (you can do this at home, but going out may work better): Write down five things you see, five sounds you hear and three to five smells.
The Prompt:
Write a story with a character who has a difficult decision to make. Put this character in the setting you observed and use your sensory detail in the story.
Tips:
- Your setting doesn’t have to be the literal place where you collected your details. Turn it into a fiction if it works better for your story.
- I left out touch because depending on where you are, touching stuff might be out of the question. But add tactile details if you can.
- Use the details as reminders of what the character has to do.
- Use them as distractions.
- Use them to present a solution.
- Difficult decisions don’t have to be huge: your character might be an old person who’d like to get a dog but who can’t walk well anymore. Will the character choose more loneliness or physical discomfort?
Now go write!
Sonya Oldwin publishes a 100-word story every day – yep, it’s as crazy as it sounds.
Don’t forget to share a link to your story in the comments below.
September may be over, but I’m not done!
https://unusualstrangeness.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/story-a-day-challenge-day-28-sensations/
You get a gold star for using all elements of the prompt 😀
I accidentally turned this post into a sad story: https://storiesin5minutes.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/to-see-or-not-to-see-storyaday-post/
It is rather sad, but an interesting take on the prompt!
I think I took some liberties with this prompt, but I’m quite happy with taking a nonfiction approach (with some liberties with that too). You can read my story here: https://storiesbystolle.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/day-28-incongruent-memoirs. The password is 28.
Have you taken the story down? The link goes to a “post not found” page. I’m a bit late catching up on the stories, I’m afraid…
This one doesn’t feel finished, but I am out of words!
http://susan-reads.blogspot.com/2015/09/walker.html
Wow, Susan, I love this. I agree, I want to know what happened to her, whose blood it is. But it’s a great beginning – all the detail made me feel the story.
Nice prompt!
http://writerishramblings.com/2015/09/28/story-a-day-challenge-day-28-what-is-that-noise/
Nice story!