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Today’s writing prompt is a picture of a sunhat, a journal and a handful of pansies laying together on a garden bench. Your assignment is to think about what kind of character might have left the items on the garden bench. Why would they have left them laying there? Do the hat and journal belong to a mother and the pansies were brought to her by her little girl? Why would they have left the items behind when they left?

What about the journal?  What might it be about?  What secrets does it hold?  Confessions of an affair? The struggles of a mother who’s child is disabled?  A young widow’s writing through her grief?  What if someone found the items and read the journal, what might they find in it?

Maybe a young man finds the journal of a widow left behind in a city park and falls in love with her through her writing.  Perhaps a husband finds his wife’s diary in the back yard and discovers she has had an affair, or knows about his affair.  Could it be the journal of the mother of a handicapped child and is found by a young woman who is facing the possibility of having a disabled child?  How would what the journal contains change the person who reads it?

I think by now you have probably got more than enough to get you started plotting, so I’ll let you get at it.  Have fun writing.

Today’s prompt is based on a picture by Sueanna at SXC.hu

Today’s prompt is to write a short story about a cabin. I have chosen that as the writing prompt for today because it was on March 20, 1852 that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published.

You should not try to recreate Uncle Tom’s Cabin, just write any kind of short story that features a cabin. It might be a trapper’s cabin, a cabin that someone has bought and is restoring, or an old abandoned cabin left over by the first colonists of another world.

It’s St. Patrick’s Day — What would happen if your character found a small leather bag filled with gold coins in the park? Write a short story detailing what happens after the gold has been discovered.  Maybe from the moment of discovery, or maybe start with the character looking back on the day that lead up to wherever they are now. (Are they rich and living the high life or sitting in jail awaiting trial?)

Your character is walking through a park and discovers a small group of leprechauns sitting under a tree… what happens?