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Do a bit of character development by contemplating what your character would think if they were to receive an anonymous Valentine’s Day card. Who would they think sent it? Why would they think it was that person? Would they have sent it to themselves to make someone else notice?

As Valentine’s Day approaches people everywhere are looking for a token that will express to the one they love just how much they love them.

Today’s prompt is to take a few common love tokens and craft a scene using as many of them as possible within the scene.

Tokens:

• A bent coin
• Paper hearts
• A ring
• A locket
• A ladies kerchief

Have you ever seen one of those little books with the sketches in it, each one a little different so that when you hold your thumb on the edge of the book and let the pages flip it creates an animation.

Imagine how someone from another world might interpret one of those little books if they were to find one. Maybe they came to earth and find it as they are exploring, or maybe it was on a space ship that went out into space? Perhaps aliens abducted someone and hey have the book in their pocket?

This is a thinking prompt to get you to thinking about the most unexpected of things we tend to not even think about, and how someone that had never seen or heard of such a thing might interpret it.

It is groundhog day and Punxsutawney Phil has made his forecast – his shadow chased him back into his hole. Six more weeks of winter. The weatherman was fast to point out that Punxsutawney Phil has only a 39% accuracy rating though.

That was not the most amusing part, however, because the news played in the background as I worked on the computer and I remember something just after Punxsutawney Phil’s forecast about the news gal made a comment regarding something else they were discussing and she said something like: “Everything tastes good fried. Twinkies, groundhogs-… I’m just saying!” She caught a lot of flack from her coworkers, and twas very amusing, but… it made me think about ol’ Punxsutawney Phil and the reactions that people might have to his predictions.

This leads us to today’s prompt. What might reactions be to Punxsutawney Phil and his weather predictions? Might a disgruntled person truly fry up the poor groundhog for predicting more winter? What might a weatherman do if he were recently fired and saw the weather predicting groundhog getting all that attention? There are other weather predicting critters in other towns around the States, what if a small town somewhere  decided that their claim to fame might be to prove that Punxsutawney Phil is really from their town and was kidnapped years before?

Yes, I am in the ranks of Team Conan. Mind you, I prefer Letterman, but come on, Conan O’Brien is being royally screwed by NBC because they screwed up. And I even LIKE NBC.

What got me was in Conan’s letter to the people he states:

The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t the Tonight Show.

And he’s right! At 12:05 you have the Morning Show, not the Tonight Show. So, my challenge to my fellow writers is to write a debate between two characters on how something happening at a set time should be referred to.

Rules:

• there should be something that will happen just after midnight
• the writer is neutral in their opinion on the matter
• one character should take each of the following stances:

1. after midnight is still “tonight”
2. after midnight would be the next day

For example, there is to be a raid at 12:01 a.m., one character tells the other including “tonight” in the description of the time, which sets the second character off on something like “but that would be tomorrow morning.”