writercises | EXERCISE: Pick a Prompt!

Original Posting: 5/20/2019

I was watching a quiz show recently, and they showed a whole sequence of manga pictures and asked the panel what the sound was to go with each one of them! They had a lot of fun trying to guess the appropriate sound effects, which in manga style are written across the picture. Kind of like the old Batman TV show, BIFF! BAM! and so forth? Anyway, I grabbed some of the situations and thought you might like to use them as one line writing prompts.So, pick a number from 1 to 6. You may roll a die (that's the singular of dice you know) if you want to do that. Then look at which one you picked, and... WRITE!1. As she stood with the valentine's day card in her hands, with him standing around the corner, her heart jumped, "Dokidoki."2. As the arrow whistled into the apple on his head, the son couldn't help but give a small shout.3. As the ghost climbed out of the well beside them, his girlfriend grabbed him with a screech.4. As his hand went through the paper on the bamboo screen covering the window, he heard the ripping, shook his head, and groaned. The hotel was going to charge him extra for that!5. As the egg cooked in the frying pan, everyone heard the sizzle and licked their lips.6. As the lightning forked down from the sky around them, their ears were battered by the crack as it sank into the tree beside them.There you go. Just a little hint of a scene. Who are the people, what's going on? What happened leading up to this, and what happens next? Go ahead, tell us all about it.tink