November 11, 2013

I’m bored: Come on, give me a challenge

Okay, so I’m not really bored. In fact, I’m insanely busy. But that’s life.

I’ve decided to do another Open Prompts story this Friday. I haven’t done one in over a year, so for those of you who don’t know what that is, let me explain.

I take five story elements that you suggest (one per commenter, please) and write a story around them. Examples are:

– the title

– the genre (fantasy, mystery, horror, etc.)

– the tone (dark, humorous , serious, absurd, etc.)

– a character’s name or other details about them

– plot elements (e.g. a silver dagger, a rainstorm, identical twins, etc.)

– the length (something between 50 and 1500 words)

– anything else you feel like.

Nothing sexual, overly graphic, obscene, etc, but I’ll take the first five suggestions I get in the comments. Feel free to make them as random as you want. Come back on Friday to see what I make of it all. As always, you are free to write your own story around the same set of story elements. Please do, because that would be awesome.

About David Stewart

I am a writer of anything quirky and weird. I love most genres of fiction and in each there are stories that I would consider "my kind of story". View all posts by David Stewart

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15 responses to “I’m bored: Come on, give me a challenge”

Anja
November 11th, 2013 at 8:51 pm

I think you should write something about a red leaf clinging to a tree trying not to fall…

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- David Stewart
  November 11th, 2013 at 9:15 pm
  
  okay, I’ll take that. 🙂
  
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  - Anja
    November 11th, 2013 at 9:16 pm
    
    🙂 Looking forward to reading it when complete.
    
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Christopher De Voss
November 11th, 2013 at 9:16 pm

Title: The Silverware Man

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- David Stewart
  November 11th, 2013 at 9:43 pm
  
  Beautiful. Thanks for suggestion. After all, you’re the guy who gave me Edward “the Squid” Morrison. 🙂
  
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  - Christopher De Voss
    November 11th, 2013 at 9:45 pm
    
    🙂
    
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Miles Rost
November 11th, 2013 at 9:24 pm

Character’s name: Bartleby “Bud” Hobdringer VII

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- David Stewart
  November 11th, 2013 at 9:44 pm
  
  Why am I not surprised you’d suggest a name like that, Miles. 🙂
  
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Catherine
November 11th, 2013 at 9:52 pm

555 words. It’s my lucky number! Your suggestions look amazing, looking forward to reading this post!

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- David Stewart
  November 11th, 2013 at 9:59 pm
  
  I can do that. Thanks. 🙂
  
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The Bumble Files
November 12th, 2013 at 4:09 am

Water, lots of water. Just because. Because that’s what came into my head.

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Eric Alagan
November 12th, 2013 at 8:56 am

I look forward to your story.

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David Stewart
November 12th, 2013 at 8:58 am

Thanks everyone, we’ve got our five:
– a red leaf clinging to a tree, trying not to fall
-Title: The Silverware Man
-character: Bartleby “Bud” Hobdringer VII
– length: 555 words
– lots of water

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Sharmishtha Basu
November 12th, 2013 at 2:03 pm

a spaceship caught in a predatory spiderweb 🙂 – huge spiders.

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- David Stewart
  November 15th, 2013 at 6:07 pm
  
  I already had five elements for this one, but I’ll write another story just for you with this idea. 🙂
  
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