Here are the prompts used by the Summer Institute participants in their Write Around Fargo event on Friday, July 10. Feel free to write to any and all of these!
Prompt:
“Remember in your story that setting is the
other character. It is as important to your story as the people in it because
it gives them context and can ideally be used to heighten drama and tension,
depending on where it is.” -- Rob Parnell in The
Easy Way to Write Short Stories that Sell.
The Red River Valley is a character in itself.
It can be both a protagonist and an antagonist. Describe a scene around
you, using the setting as a protagonist. Then, switch up and describe the same
scene using the setting as an antagonist.
Prompt:
Write
a vignette that uses the following:
•a smell that reminds you of something
•a description of one inanimate item
that is moving or being moved
•a description of the setting you're in
•an invented verb
•a metaphor or simile
•dialog, real or imagined
•the word "burlap"
Prompt: Does this place remind you of anywhere that you've been
before? What specifically brings you back there? Write a memory that
something in this place evokes.
and/or
If you were putting a photo of this place online, what would the
title of your photo be? What might you crop out of the picture to
represent that title best?
-Prompts provided by Kim Rensch, Pam Fisher, and Beth Sutton
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