PROMPT NINETEEN–
CELEBRATION
With this
prompt the author creates an unusual holiday. It can be something you are
already passionate about, like camping, talking on the phone, or collecting
cereal box tops. If all else fails you can take a random noun or verb and turn
that into a holiday. Then use that holiday as the setting for your story.
Here are
five made up holidays.
Parking
Ticket Day
Take a Swim
Day
Back to
School Celebration
Borrow
Something Day
Eat a Bug
Week
Based on
Back to School Celebration I generated this pitch.
Back-to-School Pool - After a long summer of swimming,
biking, and fighting with her younger brother, Brenda is ready to head back to
school. That is, until she notices the adults acting strangely. They seem a
little too happy about getting the kids out of the house and rounded up in one
place.
With the help
of her best friend and her annoying little brother they uncover the conspiracy
of all conspiracies – a betting pool where the parents place wagers on how the
children will perform during the upcoming year and throw a party for the event.
Based on Swim
Day I generated this pitch.
Swim Day - No one considered what would happen to the
inmates of Harbor Island Correctional Facility if the world stopped functioning
as it always had. Now, ten years after the cataclysm, the survivors are
desperate to find a way off the island. The first day of every month is Swim
Day. The lucky winner of the Swim Day lottery gets a day to live as a cell
block celebrity and then is cast into the waters and forced to attempt a trip
to the mainland. If any have made the trip they haven’t come back to help the
others.
Stitch is
drawn to make the swim. He’d been counting down until the day of his execution
when everything went bad. Dying during the swim doesn’t bother him, but leaving
behind the only person who ever treated him humanely does. He must do more than
just survive the watery ordeal, he has to find a way to return and save his
brother, the prison guard.
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