Weekly Prompts (CLOSED)
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writeit Hello! As this is a short week, we'll be changing the prompts over on Monday.
300 words (min) = 10 points
3000+ for bonus = 20 points
All Prompts Complete Bonus = 5 points
Due Date: Monday April 5th, 2021
"I have a certain way of being in the world and I shall not, I shall not be moved." - Maya Angelou
Start the first sentence of your story with: "I bet you're wondering how I got into this situation..."
Write a story that centers on the topic of wild turkeys.
Prompt #2, Original Work, 316 words
Date: 2021-04-04 03:07 pm (UTC)Author/Team: aroberuka / Team Mockingbird
Fandom/Original: Original (‘i’m not writing original stuff in english’, i said, like a liar :|)
Rating: G
Triggers: None
Summary: Two disasters in a kitchen.
ConCrit: N (please do point out typos / tense issues and the like tho!)
***
“I bet you're wondering how I got into this situation…”
“How you got into this situation?!”
“How Clotilde got me into this situation.”
“Hey!”
The situation as far as Emma could see: Guillaume and Clotilde, sprawled across the kitchen floor, surrounded on all sides by the teeny-tiniest army (archers, horsemen and assorted soldiers, all of them painstakingly painted, someone had had a busy afternoon). Clotilde was clutching an empty pitcher against her chest, her breathing heavy, her cheeks red with exertion beneath splotches of white and blue paint. Somehow, the tip of her ponytail had been burned black. The paper crown that once sat proudly atop her head now hung sadly from her left ear. Behind her Guillaume had fallen on his ass and was struggling to sit up, glasses all askew, looking very sheepish indeed. A bruise was starting to bloom on his cheekbone, and a large streak of soot ran across his nose. Once in a while he raised a hand to rub at it. Emma didn’t have the heart to tell him he was only making things worse.
All around them the village was in shambles, houses tipped over, huge gaps in the streets where some kind of giant had rampaged through without a care for the damage she would cause. Emma spotted the church, flat on its side and flung far out of place, almost under the sink. Across the room, Clotilde’s hair-dryer had crashed into an unfortunate cluster of trees who had never asked to be dragged into this. And of course, at the center of this monumental tragedy: their masterpiece, the queen’s castle, once a marvel of local architecture with its four towers (Clotilde’s design), crenellated walls (Emma’s work) and functional drawbridge (Guillaume’s suggestion), now a charred husk of water-logged cardboard. One of the towers was still smoldering.
“Aw, you ruined the castle.”
“We ruined the castle?!”
“Clotilde ruined the castle.”
“Hey!”
***
Re: Prompt #2, Original Work, 316 words
Date: 2021-04-04 10:56 pm (UTC)Re: Prompt #2, Original Work, 316 words
Date: 2021-04-06 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-05 10:06 pm (UTC)Author/Team: Larissa Bernstein / Team Rainbow Fish
Fandom/Original: Brigadoon (1954)
Rating: teen
Triggers: discussion of animal death / hunting (mild)
Summary: “Three hours and not one damn bird in sight!” It came out quite a bit louder than he had intended, and if this trip had been about comic timing instead of hunting, then he would for sure have won a trophy, because as if on cue his outburst was answered by the distinctive yelp-like call of a hen somewhere unseen.
Link to the fic on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30495348
ConCrit: Always happy about comments/reviews, ideally on AO3.
no subject
Date: 2021-04-05 11:25 pm (UTC)Author/Team: Maria/Team Rainbow Fish
Fandom/Original: The Beatles
Rating: Teen
Triggers: n/a
Summary: “A toast,” he heard Lee say, from his position at the front of the room, Monique hovering at his side. “To my new son-in-law. We never thought anyone would take Linda on, but he did.”
ConCrit: (Y/N) Comments are welcome on Ao3