The Observatory

I started attending a creative writing workshop last week and at each meeting we get a prompt to write on for the following week, so if all goes well I should have more stuff to share.

Prompt: There’s a knock on your door an you open it to a worn and beaten man wearing nothing but a toga with a large tattoo on his arm. He claims to be a long lost relative and that he can prove it based on a code in his tattoo. What is his story and what does he want.

This was last week’s prompt and the other people in the workshop had great ideas ranging from comedic to serious to taking it from the toga guy’s perspective. Mine borders between humorous sci-fi and just plain silly. I wrote the second half before the workshop and haven’t edited it yet other than basic grammar and such.

Continue reading There’s a Knock on Your Door…

Me: oh! oh! give me something to write about!
Dylan: umm…we’ve covered zombies and dragons, right?
Me: yep
Dylan: ummm pirates? in space? SPACE PIRATES IN SPAAAACE
Me: I like the sound of that

Continue reading Space Pirates (in Space)…

Occasionally I’ll ask my friend Dylan to give me a topic to write on. It keeps me from getting into a rut, feeds me new ideas and perspectives, and makes me write on subjects or genres I may not normally choose to otherwise. She’s a big fan of zombies, so of course a zombie story was the first suggestion she made. This was what resulted.
Continue reading Zombie story…