Help Please! OPS Prompt This Month…?

[AgentPete]

Our monthly micro-writing contest One Perfect Sentence kicks off this Friday, and I’m looking for prompt ideas… if you’d like to make any suggestions, please list them below! p.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

The past is.....

(Inspo..."The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there". The Go- Between, LP Hartley)

 

[AgentPete]

The past is.....

(Inspo..."The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there". The Go- Between, LP Hartley)

Nice! I may keep this up my sleeve, tho, it's thematically similar to last month’s compo…

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Ah, of course, sure, Peter Do they need to be from Literature? Could it just be a single word?

 

[Katie-Ellen]

"Sometimes you need to...."


(Inspo: "Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.") - Novel, Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

 

[AgentPete]

Single word? Wow, that’s quite radical!

Maybe, depends on the word, of course. But I think I’d generally prefer to launch the writer with a little more guidance, i.e. roughly quarter or half a sentence. That often suggests a genre… which of course you can have some fun in subverting…

From literature… not necessarily, but “the best of times” quote worked quite well, I think. There may be others that inspire but don’t restrict / hem in...

 

[Sedayne]

I like @Katie-Ellen 's suggestions.

You could keep this thread rolling to stash ideas for coming months.

How about a one sentence response to a question which can be read in so many different ways if you ban italics for emphasis:

What are you doing here?​

(It's a recurring theme in Bojack Horseman, and I've since noticed lots of scripts using this same question as a springboard into scenes.)

 

[Rich.]

Write one sentence of dialogue that is the midpoint turn of a novel. Any genre.