Writing Prompt: News at Eleven
13
December 2009
Blame today’s prompt on too much listening to the radio news. Take your favorite protagonist and put them somewhere they can hear or see the news.
Maybe they are stuck in traffic listening to the radio, perhaps they are listening to a radio at work, maybe they are in a store and the news is playing on a display television, or they are home, or visiting a friend, maybe they just picket up the morning newspaper and unfolded it to see what the day’s headline is. Or go technological even and have them check the news online.
Whatever method they go about it, they are having a relatively normal boring day when they overhear a news report – about them.
What might the news have to say about your protagonist? Did they expect it to be on? Were they implicated in a crime, did they commit the crime? Have they been reported missing, or dead? Were they in the background on a news piece and are in witness protection? Did they grow the biggest cabbage at the local state fair?
Don’t pick what you want, let your protagonist just casually realize the news piece is about them, and see what they have to say about why they are on the evening news.
