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May

Pass It On

Filed in Writing Thursdays

I thought I’d try something a little bit different this week. Something that’ll bring the writer out in all of us.

penpaperI’m going to give a prompt–a single word springboard designed to spark the opening paragraph of a story. The first person to comment writes their paragraph (take it in whatever direction you want).  Then, after that person writes their paragraph based on my prompt, they leave a single word prompt for the person who opts to comment behind them (writing a paragraph of that person’s prompt).

Ready?

Okay, here we go…   Sister (yes, that’s the prompt). 

~Elizabeth

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6 Responses to “Pass It On”

  1. Shel
    May 27th, 2010 at 2:17 am

    My father’s sister was named, very imaginatively, Arvezina. Needless to say, no one ever called her that. In the family she was always called “Aunt Sister”, and outside of the family everyone except the Social Security people knew her as “Taffy”. I didn’t actually learn her real name until her obituary was published.

    Next word prompt: mystery

  2. Dru
    May 27th, 2010 at 7:09 am

    The mystery surrounding his escape puzzled him. Why would he do this? He only had another three months before his release. Did he find out the truth? Now, he would have to go to the old neighborhood and interview all of them again. How would his partner react to his act of betrayal?

    Next word prompt: weather

  3. Nikki
    May 27th, 2010 at 8:49 am

    The weather was horrendous as he knocked on door after door, hoping they would talk to him. His appearance didn’t help. The hood of his rain slicker pulled tight around his face, strands of limp hair falling in his eyes. But when he approached the house that adjacent to Jacobson’s the door opened as he climbed the front steps.

    Next word: suspicious

  4. Lynn
    May 27th, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    ‘Suspicious,’ she had called him. Mrs. Harden hadn’t even given him the courtesy of speaking or offered him a towel or cup of hot tea. Just an insistant demand that he get off her stoop. At least the Jacobson’s had heard him out before rejecting his plea. The village was refusing to buck the preacher. And Tobias had chose the wrong horse in this race.

    Next word: Searching

  5. elizabeth
    May 27th, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    Shel, LOVE your opening paragraph. Dru, yours was great, too!!! Nikki and Lynn you guys seemed to make your prompts based off of Dru’s…and it worked. I’m going to take Lynn’s prompt and do an opening to a book (not based on yours…more the way Shel and Dru did it).

    She’d been searching all night, hoping, praying for some sound or movement to let her know he was near. She prayed his shorts and t-shirt would be enough to keep him warm, yet the sudden change in temperature told her otherwise. Oh God, how she hoped he was okay.

  6. Lynn
    May 27th, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    Yeah, I read the instructions wrong, go figure… but looking at my paragraph, it still could be an opening without the ones that went before it. So I feign ignorance….

    But now I want to know what Tobias was looking for and why the preacher was against him. (I think it’s a bright and shiny…)

    LOL

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