April 18, 2008
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Weekly Writers Challenge #4
He found the cacophony distracting as he walked in the room, so he turned on his heel and walked right out again. Through the house, out the door, down the steps, and off across the rolling lawn, toward the pond he went, not hurrying, but with apparent purpose. He needed some time and solitude to think about what he would do next.
He could fly to Brazil or take a train to San Francisco and get on a boat there. It would be the long way around, through the Panama Canal, but he’d never been to Panama, and there really was no hurry. He knew where he had to go. He knew that he really had to go there. But nobody said he had to be there tomorrow, nor even the next day. There was time… time to kill.
This week’s challenge:
Free write for five minutes, a story, beginning with “He found the cacophony distracting as he walked in the room.”I’m a slow typist, and not exactly a quick thinker when I’m making stuff up. Five minutes gets me the beginning of a story, that’s all.
Wanna play?
Just write your story on your site. Then GO HERE and leave a comment that links to your story.
Comments (14)
RYC…sorta…
Hey! Thanks again for stopping by and leaving a thoughtful comment!
Hmmm. That’s an interesting challenge!
you sure made it thrilling tough!
Good Job!
I think I’d get about that much done, but I like the prompt instead of just a subject…that would help my imagination get started I think.
I’d spend the entire five minutes spelling and correcting the spelling of ‘cacaphony.’
Pretty good. Probably better than I would do!
lol at the above commentor!
@JustMeAndy -
Isn’t that what “copy” and “paste” are for?
Well done, SuSu!
I posted my response to the challenge. I had the scene in mind … and it took about 5 minutes to get a second sentence that I liked. I think I started my five minutes from that point, although I didn’t actually time myself…
Heh. It seems your character walked into the challenge, then said “to hell with this” and ran away
-slicy
This makes a good start to a very interesting story. Maybe you should expand on it. Thanks for participating.
I found 5 min hard as well.
Your last line certainly left me wondering.
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It makes me wanna read more. And in my book that is doing what you should do with any written piece, leave the reader wanting more.
~Misa
@DarkAngelKat00 - i concur