This week's mini prompt was a dialogue prompt: "You want to meet my family?"
I challenged everyone to think about what immediately comes to mind when they read this dialogue. Two characters? Just one? A setting? A situation? An emotion?
Sometimes prompts like this bring to mind fully formed characters and a setting and an interesting premise. And sometimes it only brings up one of those elements.
Like this one! I could only come up with more dialogue. But I think the dialogue can still tell a complete story.
So, as promised, here is what I wrote as inspired by this mini prompt:
""You want to meet my family?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"Okay, hold on. So you got to know me and thought, 'well, they're the weirdest person I've ever met. I'd better see the whole train wreck of a carvel show they came from.'"
"Well, I can't cook so I was going to bring popcorn as my contribution to the potluck."
"Uh huh, and which news station is paying you for an inside scoop?"
"What's the one with the cute news anchor?"
"Oh, yeah, I should have known. They're paying you with an exclusive dinner date with a cute anchor rather than money, right?"
"What can I say? I'm easy to please. ... Hey, it's alright. Channel 4 has a marathon of B movies. So I'm good."
"What?"
"Yeah, I've got it all planned out. I'll stay in my PJs, I may even stay I bed, and order in pizza, and live tweet all the old, terrible movies."
"You can't have pizza on Thanksgiving! No, you are coming over with your popcorn and your hidden cameras. I just want you to know what kind of chaos to expect when you get there."
"I don't want to intrude."
"Then I'll give you a job. You can help me dodge my Aunt Prudence. She's always asking when I'll start dating and when I'll get a better paying job and all that junk."
"But who will watch the B movies? I think I am single-handedly keeping that channel afloat."
"You can find all of those movies on the internet. ... You're coming over, okay! You're not spending Thanksgiving alone."
"..."
"..."
"Thanks."
"Bring comfortable shoes. Aunt Prudence is fast and quiet. Like a wrinkly ninja."
Let me know if you end up using this prompt for yourself!
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