This week, let’s talk about what prompts emotion. Is it nostalgia – the scent of diesel fumes and reflection of shining chrome? How about music, its mournfulness muffled only slightly by twining vines and shadowed features? Are there scenes that never fail to bring joy, or a tear to your eye? What are your tips and tricks to generate your own emotions, and how do you translate it through typing and pen to share it with your readers? Leave your tips and tricks in the comments – along with your prompts, of course! (psst? If you want a discussion of the range of emotions, you could start over here… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification. Just don’t get lost!) So here we go!
| Coaches | Playbooks | Players!! |
| nother Mike | Who would have thought dancing In the moonlight with Sasquatch would be so much fun? | AC Young |
| AC Young | The textbook on ethics was a palimpsest. Hidden underneath the handwritten words was the journal of a pirate. | Cedar Sanderson |
| Becky Jones | The chimes rang softly in the breeze. | Fiona Grey |
| Leigh Kimmel | Now the entire trip was in question…. | nother Mike |
| Padre | Now that we’ve won the championship, we’re going to… | Parrish Baker |
| Fiona Grey | Moonlight twined around branches until it found… | Becky Jones |
| Parrish Baker | I was on the elevator when I realized the freckles on my arm were a star map. | Leigh Kimmel |
| Cedar Sanderson | “Back in the game, Baby!” | Padre |
And here are your spares:
| He nodded decisively. “Aye, nothing else for it. When in doubt, take a bath.” |
| By the time the villain arrived, she’d lost all of her weapons except doubt. |
| Each year grew longer. |
| When they added magic mirrors to the Internet, the messages got strange… |
| She kept a jar of plastic ants in her purse for emergencies. |
| An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of … |
What melodies take you away from this world and into another?
Your extra challenge for the week: TRANSPORT.
Did you hear? Promptess Emeritus Cedar Sanderson’s got another Groundskeeper story out. Go read it, it’s good! And a great time of year for this series as well!
Images generated by Fiona Grey using Midjourney.
More Odds Than Ends 
https://open.substack.com/pub/urnasemper/p/now-that-weve-won-the-championship?r=pn89z&utm_medium=ios
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Mine’s up: https://acyoungauthor.substack.com/p/dancing-with-sasquatch
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[…] was a trade, so make sure to check out what she did with twining moonlight – and don’t forget the rest of the Odd Prompts crew, or that you too can play […]
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And now mine’s up on my LiveJournal at https://starshipcat.livejournal.com/1818091.html. Another beginning from the looks of it, but if I’m lucky, it’ll be a short story or novelette, not a five-book epic.
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I did spares this week, but still around! Should be in the mix again next week. 🙂 https://taleederman.substack.com/p/mote-spares-track-fixation?r=1us9c3
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https://professorornery.substack.com/p/moonlight-messenger
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Leigh Kimmel called the play…
Now the entire trip was in question….
[Aha! Who was going where, and what happened?]
The whole class was waiting when the bus pulled into the driveway. But the driver jumped out and ran to the back, where he looked at the tires, then shook his head and walked back to where the teacher and students waited.
“Well, I don’t know why, but those back tires are flapping like crazy. Something sliced them up on the way over here, and I’m not going to drive any further on them.”
Now the entire trip was in question….
[Well, maybe…]
[Whoops! Late again! Drat, drat, drat! Well, now the entire trip really is in question.]
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