Saturday, June 13, 2009

My Prompt

Okay, I think I did this correctly. But if I didn't please forgive me. I've had a long day that included rescuing a desk from the recycling center (makes my old desk look like it belongs in a second grade class), sick kids, driving a half hour for chinese food only to discover I went to the wrong restaurant and the one I really ordered from (in error) is only 2 minutes from my house.

So, I only did 4.

1) Core 2 (from my Dell tower)
2)Winter Signs (written on the top of one of my kid's school papers)
3)Surprise Return (From a TV Guide article)
4)All The Reasons- (From a Reisen candy ad)

Story Premise

1)Core 2- A team of scientists must recreate the earth's core for the survival of mankind.

2)Winter Signs-A loner in the mountains is forced to share his home with a stranded hiker during a blizzard.

3)Surprise Return-Sarah had no reason to doubt that Ted was never going to return, but when he comes back with a fiance, she has to deal with her broken heart all over again.

4)All The Reasons-There was nothing that Beth and Pete had in common, but they still couldn't imagine a life apart.

I did an exercise like this before. My group had to come up with a title and premise or hook for each letter in the alphabet. It was fun and came up with some good ideas!

2 comments:

Marianne Arkins said...

So... you gonna write any of these?

And, I'm sorry, but I had to laugh about the Chinese restaurant...

Ceri Hebert said...

I don't know... but I kind of like the Winter Signs idea.

Yeeehhhh... the Chinese restaurant thing. I thought about that later and had to shake my head. I was actually not pleased with the initial idea of having to drive all the way up to get the food. I was tired, I was grubby from moving that desk and it was the last thing I wanted to do. So I was in an ugly mood and doing my usual grumbling about it. If I'd just been calm and cool I would've called the right place, but instead I screwed up because of my own bad temper.

There's a lesson there.