Prompts! Prompts! Prompts!

So as a writer and person I have my ups and downs. Took some time to feel like posting anything other than my own writing again. But life has a funny way of flipping itself around at the least expected times so this morning I thought, hey, why not some writing prompts?

(1) The Pet's Perspective: I want you to try and think about a day in the life of your pet. If you have more than one pick one; it could be your favorite pet, or your least favorite pet, or your only pet, or a pet you wish you had, whatever! The point is to think about perspective and jot down some thoughts that might not normally ever cross your mind. A dog's seemingly irrepressible urge to chase anything that runs from him, or a cat's habit of attacking things that do not exist. Have fun with it.

 (2) Be a Jerk: one of the things that many authors say is that you need to be mean to your characters. If something isn't threatening their life, possibly killing their friends, maybe destroying the world, or even just threatening to take their parking space at work, then a character doesn't have much motivation and the reader has a harder time supporting them. There is no story without conflict right? So the prompt here is to event a character, for the sake of ease assume it's a standard retail job, although you could pick anything, so a cashier, or stocker, or someone who works in sales, etc. Have something terrible happen to them and see how they deal with it. A car could explode, their boss could yell at them, there neighbors dog could crap on their porch, etc. Again have fun with it!

(3) A Can of Worms: actually start a story with "A Can of Worms" opening, or maybe just existing because that could be a weird story topic, I mean, who can's worms? Anyway start with that and then go from there. You could go stream of consciousness with this, just going from thought to thought, or you could write a real serious story about a can of worms, or virtually anything. Just have fun with it.