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Writing Prompt #2 (of 2020) : Spring Fever

“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”

Thus, how do your characters see beauty in the world? For this prompt, you will pick a situation your character may be in as the weather changes and add as much description as you can. Are they planting flowers? Caught in a storm? Spring Cleaning? Preparing for a picnic? You decide!

Use every sense possible – Sight, Smell, Sound, Taste, Touch.

We can’t wait to see what everyone is up to!

Who: Oliver Queen, Tommy Merlyn and the entire ninth grade class. ( With mention of Pamela ) What: Sadie Hawkins’ Dance at St. Agnes Charter School.  Where: St. Agnes Charter School on the West Side of Starling City. When: May 16th, 1999

Oh baby, baby how was I supposed to know...

St. Agnes’s Charter School rarely wandered from its coveted convictions; especially when it came down to the normal trivialities of virtue. Yet, at the end the millennia, they allowed for a small allowance for change. A updated version of the Sadie Hawkins’ style dance. The floor length skirts and stiff suits were no longer the dress code but knee length skirts and sport coats. He wondered what they would say when they saw him now. 

The glimmering lights radiated off the disco ball that hung in the middle of the Gymnasium. Oliver promised himself and his parents that he would t r y his very best to make a good impress this year. Since his last expulsion, he was walking on thin ice. Despite his desire to go to a public school, Robert and Moira weren’t ever going to budge on that front. Their fourteen year old darling mustn’t be tainted by the masses. Truly, they were saving the other kids from the mischievous heir of the Queen Fortune. “Yuck it up, Tommy. Take all the Polaroids you want but there’s no way I’m going out there like this.” Oliver stood firmly in the wake of Tommy’s growing mirth. Who would have thought his own best friend would condone the bad behavior that would enable that last strike to do him in? Oliver stared stubbornly into the blossoming grin that overtook his lips. “A bet is a bet, Queen. I thought you were a man of your word....” his teasing check on Oliver’s newly surfacing manhood was just enough to push him over the edge. “Plus, I bet Laurel will love it.” His snickering silenced with the swiftness of Oliver’s gait through the agape doorway.

That something wasn’t right here.

Flashes of light bathed Oliver in the neon shadow. His lanky legs sprouted from beneath the plaid shirt he borrowed from Pam. The white button up his father had helped him with the cuffs now tied up in a knot just beneath his chest. He tip toed into the middle of the gym with the clunky oxfords and two pink pom pom hair ties in his dirty blonde locks. Oliver lost himself for a moment. His vision dipping in and out with the buzzing sound of Britney Spears filling the space. Tommy happily standing near the CD player. Everyone stared in shock. I will not be embarrassed by these mouth breathers.  Oliver smirked at his audience before strutting into the middle and dancing to the beat with the moves Tommy choreographed. To his surprise, the crowd began to cheer and the gasping shock rippled through each of the lovely fifty something year old chaperones. 

Oh baby, baby I shouldn’t have let you go..

[FLASHBACK]

Matt didn’t have much of a childhood. He didn’t get any sweets, didn’t celebrate most holidays. He was being raised as a solider and in most cases, that’s all it was. He would wake up, train, go to school, and train some more. His only solace were the days his dad was otherwise too occupied to work with him– or days they visited the Luthor’s.

Luthor Corp was a huge building, one that Matt could get lost in if he had the normal sense of adventure a normal child had at his age. He was smart enough to stay out of the restricted areas and by then he had learned to stay away from Lex. Lex was older and sometimes he sat in on the meetings his father was attending. Lex was scary, to Matt’s little 8 year old mind.

Lena was another thing altogether and in most cases, Matt eagerly tried to find her. She probably saw him as a nuisance, considering their difference in age, but he looked up to her. She treated him like an equal. “So I have a secret,” he said once, as they walked down the halls of Luthor Corp. There was a particular jump in his step today, but after finding a small and empty office, he ushered her in and pulled his backpack off of his shoulder. “My dad can never know, he would get so mad, but–” He pulled out a figurine, still in it’s box. The crimson S marked the blue uniform of the Superman figurine. “It’s in mint condition and it only cost me 20 dollars. I got it on my way home from school a couple-a days ago and I have this little box I’ve been putting it in under my bed. Isn’t it so cool?” He waited for Lena to give some sort of agreement before looking back down at the figure, his smile turning into something softer. “One day, I wanna be like Superman. You know he doesn’t even hurt the bad guys? I mean, I guess he hurts them a little, it’d have to be hard not to with super strength and laser eyes, but he hasn’t killed anybody.”

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Writing Prompt #1 (of 2020): Playlist Rewind

Music is the essence of life. It’s also quite the memorable benchmark for everyone in some instance. For this prompt, you will pick a song that you and your character enjoy and you will base your flashback on the year that song was released. 

Example: Britney Spears’s hit ...Oops I did it Again came out in 2000. 

This will give us a view of your character at the time be it six months ago or six years ago. It will also illuminate the change that they’ve experienced. This may take some mental math and some creativity but it’ll be fun!

Happy time traveling friends!