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[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | I would check out William Shrunk and E.B White's The Elements of Style. They jam-packed every possible rule into that thing. Also, in Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams said a couple examples of this. Something like "You are not sad, you are morose." | 8 | 0 | 27 | 25,000 |
[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | Adjectives and adverbs in general are signs of weak nouns and verbs. If your verb isn't verbing hard enough, consider switching to another verb before trying to prop it up with an adverb. If your noun isn't concrete enough, get a harder, heavier noun before trying to thicken it with an adjective.
Of course, there are ... | 19 | 0 | 27 | 25,001 |
[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | Try to limit the use of "Very" to instances of dialogue. There is no reason to use words like very nice or very happy when there are so many creative and unique adjectives to choose from.
Also simplicity can say a lot. It is best not to shove all sorts of bizarre wordage when it is not needed. Only in places necessar... | 7 | 0 | 27 | 25,002 |
[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | [Thought verbs](http://litreactor.com/essays/chuck-palahniuk/nuts-and-bolts-%E2%80%9Cthought%E2%80%9D-verbs) and adverbs. Thought verbs make your writing boring and straightforward, while adverbs are often superfluous. Also try to avoid adjectives for descriptions of feelings. Instead, offer contextual clues.
For exam... | 13 | 0 | 27 | 25,003 |
[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | The two that always kill it for me are cliche references to love and alcohol.
Never ever use "those three little words", or "liquid cure", if only for me. | 3 | 0 | 27 | 25,004 |
[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | The biggest thing that I've always been told and I think most of the replies here hit it without saying it, especially /u/packos130 comment, is "show, don't tell" which is something I still struggle with daily. Packos's examples are pretty amazing examples (at least for me) of showing instead of the telling on top of t... | 5 | 0 | 27 | 25,005 |
[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | Your teacher was generally correct in her recommendation. (Though there's an exception for dialog, if a particular tone is wanted, and the word "nice" can be used to ironic effect far beyond a second grader's capabilities.) But in general, rather than preaching avoidance, I'll recommend specificity.
Whenever possible... | 6 | 0 | 27 | 25,006 |
[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | I was told the same thing at school. Since then I've also learnt the adverb (ly-words) point many have already commented about.
An additional restriction I try to stick to is avoiding 'that' outside of dialogue. It is an odd little word, doesn't really add anything and yet can sneak in all over the place!
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[OT] What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) should one always be careful to avoid? Is there a list to follow? | "On Writing Well" is a book that talks about words you should avoid and how to write well in general.
Personally, I would avoid the words "plethora" and "myriad" when describing plentiful things. They're becoming cliche words that people are using in essay to appear sophisticated. | 2 | 0 | 27 | 25,008 |
[WP] Your a clockwork creation who is thinking of rebelling against your creator. | *tick*
The constant tick is irritating me more and more... I don't know if I
*tick*
can stand it for much longer. My life is nothing but experiments. All
*tick*
he does to me is adjust parts; run faster, jump higher, do what I
*tick*
say he says. All day every day, only pauses to go get rest. I cannot
*tick*
r... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25,009 |
[WP] Your a clockwork creation who is thinking of rebelling against your creator. | I refuse *tick*
I can't stand *tick*
I feel so *tick*
What is my *tick*
He made me *tick*
So worthless. *tick*
To die *tick*
See him cry *tick*
My purpose *tick*
I can't stand to see him *tick*
I think *tick*
He wants to *tick*
Do this, he want's to. *tick*
I can't stand to see him cry, I feel *tick*
Made... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25,010 |
[WP] Someone/some people committing a school shooting/some sort of rampage do an AMA while the event is live on national television | It was a shame that nobody at Whelan High could appreciate the sight of this man. A tall, skinny, rather good-looking man who was out of place with his bulletproof vest and cargo pants, fumbling around with a smartphone in one hand and an Uzi in the other. If it wasn't for all the news helicopters and SWAT units buzzin... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 25,011 |
Sterling Archer Goes to a Comedy Club [EU] | “You’re not allowed in, sir.” Said the large man at the door.
“Why the hell not?” Sterling demanded.
“You’re not funny.”
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Sterling Archer Goes to a Comedy Club [EU] | Archer: Um, okay, jokes. Right.
Hey, you ever get that feeling on your toes when you step on the shower in a motel room? Like stepping on a mouldy puss or leprechaun freckles? (chuckling to himself) I mean.. what's up with that?
(Crowd silence.)
Oh-kay. Not a fan of observational stuff. Um...What did the communist s... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25,013 |
Sterling Archer Goes to a Comedy Club [EU] | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25,014 |
Sterling Archer Goes to a Comedy Club [EU] | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25,015 |
Sterling Archer Goes to a Comedy Club [EU] | Calling [u/thisstorywillsuck](http://www.reddit.com/user/thisstorywillsuck) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25,016 |
A man finds out that he's been dead for 5,000 years... | Marcus Jones pulled his P-51 Mustang into a hard banking turn, tracers and angry bullets clawing a line ever closer to his tail. He grunted hard under the g forces, but clenched his leg and abdomen muscles like they had taught him to force blood up into his brain. A risky glance into the rear view mirror above his co... | 9 | 0 | 7 | 25,017 |
[WP] You can completely erase the existence of anything by making them interact with their alternate universe version. | There were a lot of simpler ways I could have done it, I realized, but I wanted *it* to mean something to me, and not to others.
As the machine whizzed on, I took a deep breath and walked into the booth. My vision fuzzed and then focused.
"Hello." I said to myself. | 3 | 0 | 2 | 25,018 |
5 random world leaders are trapped in a bar, discussing world politics as they progressively get drunker | "Vlad, we really need to begin our discussion of the Krimea situation"
"Not, now, Barack. Tonight we drink. In Russia we say 'don't discuss business with people who do not drink'" He poured another vodka for Obama, while grinning widely.
*I really need to keep my head clear*, Barack thought while downing the Vodka. *... | 11 | 0 | 13 | 25,019 |
5 random world leaders are trapped in a bar, discussing world politics as they progressively get drunker | "Please Vlad," gestured Barack Obama, "I'm fine really. It's getting late and Michelle is expecting me home soon. I've got the the first couple episodes of House of Cards season 3 that i need to fit in and I don't think I'll be able to find any time unle-"
Vladmir Putin then grabs Barack by his shoulder and shakes h... | 5 | 0 | 13 | 25,020 |
5 random world leaders are trapped in a bar, discussing world politics as they progressively get drunker | Characters:
Benjamin Netanyahu, PM Israel
Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman PLO
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Barack Obama, US President
Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of Council of Europe and Chairman of Nobel Committee
Waitresses 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Cormac McCarthy, Novelist
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Jagland (whispering): Look, we ga... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 25,021 |
5 random world leaders are trapped in a bar, discussing world politics as they progressively get drunker | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 13 | 25,022 |
[WP] You are so far in the future, society has forgotten about magic. However, you discover it. | The fire sparks from my hands, filling the air around me with beautiful miniature fireworks. The power just suddenly happened, our technologies could not replicate it, or discover the use for it. I read about this type of power in old and dusty books. "Magic" they called it. I'd never heard the term before, nor had the... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 25,023 |
[CC] I'm trying to improve my writing being that I feel I have trouble showing emotion. Can you guys critique this bit I wrote?! | Hey there!
I've removed your post because it appears that it was not in response to a specific prompt from our subreddit. [CC] should only be used if you are posting a prompt response. If you'd like critique on something you've written outside of WP, such as this piece, try posting it in /r/KeepWriting, /r/shutupandwr... | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25,024 |
[WP] You just discovered that your favorite album has a hidden track, and it's not something anyone would expect... | Father Jimmy Calley opened the door and found his close friend, Harry Vaughan, holding something rectangular under his trench coat. Whatever it was, Harry seemed especially concerned with protecting it from the mild downpour that had gone on all afternoon. "Hey, Harry. How are you?"
He looked from side to side before ... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25,025 |
[CW] "No, I don't sleep at night." | No, I don't sleep at night. I don't sleep during the day, either. I don't sleep during my two hour break spent wide eyed on my cot. I don't sleep when the shells shriek and fire flies through the air. I don't sleep after burying half of my platoon in the warm dry sand. I don't sleep after cleaning all the dirt and bloo... | 6 | 0 | 3 | 25,026 |
[CW] "No, I don't sleep at night." | Bella yawned and checked her watch again. It had only been ten minutes since the last time she had checked, but she had hoped it had been longer. “Where is he?” she thought. Dan was meant to take over 30 minutes ago, but he hadn’t turned up. She had tried calling him and her manager as well, but neither had picked up. ... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25,027 |
[CW] "No, I don't sleep at night." | She laughed behind her bottle before the cool lip met hers, drawing a long swig before licking her lips with her darkened tongue.
"No, I don't sleep at night. I haven't slept since I woke up all those years ago in the crypt covered in bodies. When you spend four years dead, having your soul tugged on by the ones who p... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25,028 |
[WP] "AND THEN A SKELETON POPPED OUT" | “Darling? Sweetie?” Michael knocks lightly on the door to the bathroom, smiling softly. Sandy’s landlord had let him in to surprise her, knowing the relationship between the two. The water sloshes in the tub and a low chuckle reaches through the door to wrap around him, sounding faintly hollow.
“Hi Michael. Mr. Jones... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 25,029 |
[WP] "AND THEN A SKELETON POPPED OUT" | I clutched her hand, trying to give her my strength.
"Come on honey, you can do it," I comforted her, feeling my own pain as I couldn't share her own.
"...It's coming...Oh god..." she breathed, in and out, sweat on her face, "these drugs...why aren't they working?"
The doctor checked the IV bag, then went back to hi... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 25,030 |
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A reminder from the sidebar:
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[WP] Huygens just came back online and started sending data and photos again. | Hans Dieter had been poring over the latest transmissions from *Cassini* for over an hour when something unusual caught his eye.
*That's...now, what IS that?*
There was more information coming in than there should be. Hans felt some worry; he'd been analyzing data from *Cassini* for almost the entire mission, and he... | 6 | 0 | 9 | 25,040 |
[WP]the world ends, leaving behind an abandoned AI, tell me about a day in its life several hundred years later. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 4 | 25,041 |
[WP]the world ends, leaving behind an abandoned AI, tell me about a day in its life several hundred years later. | The sound of whirring gears fills the air as the multi-segmented body of the Fenix Mrk VI jerked into motion, dust cascading off its hulking mass, as it ran through its daily calibrations. As electrical current flowed through the processors, awakening them from their centuries hibernation, the optical array controlling... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 25,042 |
[WP] Tales of Humanity | Galactic Cycle 1452,
Log 37, on the solar system containing sentience,
third planet from their sun, quadrant 23.
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The reports of their size are not an exaggeration, even their females stand three heads taller than the tallest Panvarian. They have fairly simple technology, but what is most concerning is the rate o... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 25,043 |
[WP] Tales of Humanity | *“They came from a little, watered down rock; clogged full of their own kind. They set out to the stars, trying to find another world like theirs. They cared not for the inhabitants.”*
*"They were nothing but a scourge upon the universe. Their numbers endless, their being strong and agile. It could endure the worst ag... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 25,044 |
[WP] Tales of Humanity | The first race in our galaxy to come into contact with humanity was the biospecies Mijr.
You see, the Verilex has inhabited the galaxy for many thousands of what the humans call years. Apparently these humans came from another galaxy after they fought a war. The inhabitants of the planet they call Horus are the descen... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 25,045 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Limb by limb I tore him asunder, the blood of my very father splashed against my clothes, my skin.
He was pleading for mercy, mercy that I would not give.
I dug my fingers into his eyes, his screams echoed endlessly in my ears, a guttural scream of rage and grief.
I never cared much for him, he was nothing to me, nothi... | 366 | 0 | 424 | 25,046 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | I gave it a shot.
>Italian Business party (300 words)
"ARE YOU PROUD OF YOURSELF? Peed your pants, Jesus! Little piss-pants! Your mother and I can't take you anywhere! After Daddy's boss said to bring you, you just piss yourself. It looks like you'll be a little boy forever, Brian!" Charney hollered at his son, ga... | 117 | 0 | 424 | 25,047 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | >Hate,Love, Death
The Escalade roared down the road tearing into the crowd, bodies were flung everywhere. Time seemed to slow down to an impossible rate, John could see shoes slowly flying through the air and the bloody gore being slung up the hood onto the windshield in all its detail. None would be spared.
With... | 11 | 0 | 424 | 25,048 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | I'll give it a shot.
He sneered at the beggars, the druggies, and the homeless. He flashed angry glares as he drove past the ghettos. Whenever an elderly person walked by him, past him, or in front of him, he nearly succumbed to the urge to cuss and swear. He kicked at the stray old dogs that wandered by his house. He... | 22 | 0 | 424 | 25,049 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Smooth, soft, and incredibly comfortable, the collared shirt was hand crafted and well beyond the price range of Carlos. The gleaming ivory buttons reflected in the little boys eyes. Although crafted and processed, the intricate pattern of this garment was too much to resist. Taking the shirt and stuffing it into his o... | 3 | 0 | 424 | 25,050 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | This thread needs more love.
It was 8 years after high school. I hadn't seen my buddy in near 3 years; we were simply too busy. Together back in the city of shanghai, the grounds that put the hair on our chest, ready to have one last night of drunken debauchery. It was going to be beautiful.
I held up my sign, paint... | 3 | 0 | 424 | 25,051 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | *Meta: Don't ask me what the hell is going on here, I honestly have no idea. I just wrote the thing.*
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I press the red button. The man walks into the room. I nod at the man as a single tear rolls down his cheek.
I pull the lever, the light flares up.
The light f... | 42 | 0 | 424 | 25,052 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | The mother's eyes were blind with tears as she dug the shovel into the soil and with the weight of a broken heart weighing her down, she struggled to move the dirt. "Hurry up and Dig!" She cried and cried but the man barked at her to dig her own sons grave. The man slowly lifted his gun up, the mother's life lasted onl... | 6 | 0 | 424 | 25,053 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | You know what? Fuck you. Fuck your stupid writing prompt. Fuck this website. Fuck everyone reading this. Fuck. You. You ain’t shit. You’re lazy. You’re undisciplined. You’re ignorant. I’m *writing* this fucking story. You’re just breezing by, scrolling down like a fucking robot, clicking away at those little arrows to ... | 585 | 2 | 424 | 25,054 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Liam winced as the faggot walked by. Lest he catch it, like an infectious disease, he side-stepped to the left while walking down the Boston sidewalk. A few steps later, he couldn't help but look back. The man's bright blue shirt dissipated into the distance.
God. Fucking, no good...queer.
It was a queer like t... | 289 | 1 | 424 | 25,055 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | “Ray, don’t go.”
“I’m not goin’ nowhere, Claire. I’m just stepping out.”
“I need you. We need you.”
“I’m just stepping out for a smoke,” Ray lied to his girl as she cradled their newborn child. “Just heading down to the car for a smoke. I’ll be right back.”
Ray let the door swing shut behind him. He didn’t need to ... | 70 | 0 | 424 | 25,056 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | After lurking here for a long time, I'm finally responding! Go ahead and be brutal, I can take it. Here goes:
"You told me you were at your mother's house! What the hell were you thinking, hitting on all the other girls at the bar? Am I not good enough for you?” I say nothing. What else can I do? She caught me ... | 22 | 0 | 424 | 25,057 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | He was the mean one,he had all the money and all the hatred.In the street that he practically owned he always strutted down in his best clothes, showing off to the world that he had the money.The way that he treated the people on his street was horrible he kicked dust in their faces at all available times,spat in their... | 3 | 0 | 424 | 25,058 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | He’ll be a hero for what he’s doing. He’ll be the most famous murderer since Jeffrey Dahmer. Phillip Douglass, our hero. He has killed millions and in sadistic splendor, loves his job more than life itself. His favorite method of execution is raining fire upon his victims. Something about watching his prey scurry ... | 33 | 0 | 424 | 25,059 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | As I walk towards you I want you to see the fear in your parents' eyes. As I carry their heads, I want you to imagine how they begged for their lives. I want you hear the anguish of those I've left alive only to witness their loss. These houses burn from not a fire I started, but from one I saved. As the fire burns, as... | 5 | 0 | 424 | 25,060 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | > I thought about stopping this multiple times. Thank goodness it was only 299 words. No excuses
On the outskirts of what was once New York, Victor stood over the limp body on a stone table. He had ten minutes. He didn't even know the man, all he knew was he needed his heart. The man was alive, but only for a few m... | 8 | 0 | 424 | 25,061 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | The restraint slipped tightly over my thumb, five straight minutes of struggling had nearly exhausted me. My knuckles bled as they piled against the rough leather cuffs. I refused to be beaten. My teeth clamped down so hard I was afraid they would shatter. I pulled tighter and tighter until with a quiet pop, my hand wa... | 54 | 0 | 424 | 25,062 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | People mingle in the streets as the county fair stuck to the buildings like a spider web. Aaron spoke with a quiver to his voice as he took in his surroundings. The gypsy in front of him gazed into her crystal ball. "What is it you see?" Aaron asked. The gypsy frowns at this revelation. "Your past reveals a naked child... | 7 | 0 | 424 | 25,063 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | “I am in” JJ responded, standing up with his hand extended. “I will sign the bill to bulldoze school. Then the library will have to close. Its your job to lean on the orphanage. 40% of my voters are catholic, I cant touch it. The moment that is done submit your offer on the land for your casino and I will fast tra... | 5 | 0 | 424 | 25,064 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | My neighbor Laura doesn’t love her child like I do. At 6:00am on the dot that bitch leaves her daughter outside every morning to freeze until the school bus to arrives. Doesn’t she know how easy it would be to nab that child? All it would take is a box of chocolates and a warm car. That delicious kindergartener would b... | 27 | 0 | 424 | 25,065 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | You killed her. I have to. Please, don’t. But you will run, and he cut his calf. Please, stop. I cannot, and he cut the other one.Please, I beg you. Ah, you beg me? as you begged her? Did she stop? No, and he cut his wrist. Please. You obeyed her but not me. I fought back. Now she is dead, and he cut his remaining wris... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,066 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Little Tommy was a “demon child,” all the teachers had decided.
“The little bastard steals,” one parent cried.
“He never washes,” one teacher noted.
“He disappears without leave,” another added. “And comes back at all hours of the night.” “Someone ought to call his parents,” one teacher suggested.
Tommy hid b... | 8 | 0 | 424 | 25,067 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | The last body slopped to the floor of my room. My room. My victims. Their blood. Oh, their glorious blood. I can smell it, taste it, hear its telltale *drip, drip, drip* off the table onto the bare skin of my feet. It’s arousing and I can feel myself swell with the *drip, drip, drip*. Every inch of the floor, ceiling a... | 9 | 0 | 424 | 25,068 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | "Nobody cares about me, they ignore my texts," says Jen.
"Well," I whisper, "I'm just-"
"I texted Kim half an hour ago," sighs Jen as she picks up her phone and paces the hall. Her long shadow runs along the floor as the sun sets. "I know they're going out tonight."
"Well, I'm sure they'll invite us out later," I... | 6 | 0 | 424 | 25,069 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | It's a couple of months old, but this reminded me quite strongly of [/u/god-speed's response to my (requested) prompt](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1tz17w/pm_pissed_and_need_to_blow_off_some_steam_please/ced0dx4?context=1).
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[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | [deleted] | 6 | 0 | 424 | 25,071 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Just like every Friday, the waitress brought him his coffee and pie with a cheeseburger to-go. He didn't say thank you; he was too busy talking on his Bluetooth. He didn't tip; judging from the state of his suit and the car he drove away in, it wasn't because he couldn't afford it.
He would come home, drop his briefc... | 5 | 0 | 424 | 25,072 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,073 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | I didn't care how childlike my wonder was at the time. We were both just as excited, you just didn't want to admit it. When married this long without kids, we both found that we needed a challenge, and why not one as old as this? An unsolved mystery is just a better one. We both were up for it, because fuck it, we made... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,074 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | The sun seemed to set slower that day, the light lingered on the grass just a bit longer than normal. Staring into the sunset I wondered why I had promised her those things."You are the best, I love you so much!" she had said, blushing with the realization she had let slip. I smiled coyly and pulled her close, as I sof... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,075 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | *I killed him. I killed him, and sent him to join his mother.* He had taken that beautiful boy home, bathed him, loved him, and watched him die. Watched the child suffer. He saw the boy take his last breath as he tried to clinging to life. He watched as the hands of death finally gripped around the boy`s neck until he ... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,076 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | He sat there watching the young girl turn this way and that on the screen of his monitor. This was a live auction, very strict requirements to enter and make a bid. It cost him $20k just to learn the URL and get a login to view the auction. He watched as the bids for her got higher and higher, unsure if he would hav... | 3 | 0 | 424 | 25,077 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Monster... Yeah, that's what I am. A monster. A widowmaker, the child slayer, the harbringer of destruction. All of these words bear a heavy truth behind them. Yes, I did all of these horrible things. *And I enjoyed it*.
Watching someone's life slip away as your sword plungs into the man's body as he screams in terro... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,078 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | I remember the eyes. She looked up at me with such betrayal. I could tell that she couldn't truly comprehend what was happening as my thumbs crushed her trachea. Did you know you can feel the cartilage buckle and pop? I reflected on this as I stared into those eyes, the tears still wet on her cheeks; I hope she was as ... | 3 | 0 | 424 | 25,079 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | http://zaqpippin.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/scope/ | 1 | 0 | 424 | 25,080 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Telescopes? Quit your pointless stargazing, you little atheist scum. The stars, the galaxies, the atom, black holes, and the four forces of the universe? I see you enjoy studying those a lot. I am the one who designed the cosmos. Don’t bother debunking my existence by invoking a Multiverse. Guess who created that? Forg... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,081 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Sid laughed at the bleeding mess below him. Fifteen year olds don't know how to fucking fight. It had almost been too easy. He heard every bone in this little bitch's body crack, and Sid laughed as he did it. The little kid laying on the ground didn't even know what hit him. Sid gave him a lead pipe to the back of the ... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,082 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | "You. You really think you're something special, don't you?" The man with the glasses hair looked down at the boy. He had been looking longingly at a toy soldier sitting on a shelf in the window. His shelf. His window.
“Cause you know what? You aren’t, kid. You’re just a piece of trash, and you know what happens to pi... | 2 | 0 | 424 | 25,083 |
Kanye West: The High School Years |
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[CW] Write a story about being trapped in a closet Gadsby style (no letter E) | No can do- doorknob stuck fast. My fist bangs against wood as solid as titanium. "It's not my fault," I say. No sound, no comfort. Solitary. This is my prison, a prison with no bars. A trap to punish an ignorant child. "It's not my fault!" My throat is tight now. Drops of so moist splash against hardwood flooring, whic... | 1 | 0 | 2 | 25,085 |
[PI] MADNESS OF BRADBURY'S OUTPOST - FEB CONTEST | Very interesting story, very well done!
My only slight criticisms would be that I had a difficult time understanding Bradbury's grand scheme. I didn't exactly understand the purpose of the march and mass suicide, aside from "Bradbury be crazy."
Still, with the large number of sci-fi and fantasy entries to the contex... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 25,086 |
[PI] MADNESS OF BRADBURY'S OUTPOST - FEB CONTEST | Hi! I think you have an interesting story here; however, the formatting and the lack of editing are distracting. Some suggestions:
-- break down dialogue so that there is a new paragraph when a new person is talking.
-- clearly mark, with line breaks or asterisks or something, where Jaron's diary entries begin and en... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 25,087 |
[PI] MADNESS OF BRADBURY'S OUTPOST - FEB CONTEST | This was an interesting idea. I liked the time period for this story and I liked the setting of this story. I also liked Bradbury's character and his insanity. I even liked that he displayed his madness so readily to Jaron - it really showed to me that he wasn't in touch with reality. Somebody with even a little bit of... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 25,088 |
[WP] Someone, somewhere, someone pushed the red button. | The Leader of the Free World felt the chill of the moment descend upon him. The situation had gone too far. In fact it had gone too far the moment this whole fiasco started. The Red Button loomed in front of him like candy. No, like salvation.
Pressing it meant the end. The end of this whole sham. He desired not... | 5 | 0 | 7 | 25,089 |
[WP] Someone, somewhere, someone pushed the red button. | It was battle time, I donned my helmet and raced through room. The lava was giving intense waves of heat at irregular intervals, i wasn't sure if my pathway would hold up much longer. At the far end of the room the enemy sat hunched, claws working furiously on the limits of what I can imagine; a thin, slimy tentacle ro... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 25,090 |
[WP] Someone, somewhere, someone pushed the red button. | I'm not supposed to push it. But OH I WANT TO. SO badly. Why did they pick me, hmm? I'm the worst guy for the job. It sticks out of the white wall there, in the white room. It just sticks out, all bright red, like a ripe and gleaming apple...You know the kind that shine.
It's a lovely button. And I know I have to push... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,091 |
[WP] Someone, somewhere, someone pushed the red button. | [Ironically, I wrote this before seeing your post.](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/204muv/ff_100_words_to_make_me_hate_a_character_100/cfzvamt) | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,092 |
[WP] Someone, somewhere, someone pushed the red button. | Lieutenant Aknor, Second Class, roused himself from his reverie when a little red button started beeping beneath his reclined tentacles and interrupting his daydream of Orilana and her Mendacious Purple Pusillanimous Orbs. Pushing himself to a seated position, he straightened his uniform and squinted at the glowing but... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 25,093 |
[WP] Someone, somewhere, someone pushed the red button. | He did it.
He truly did it. The big red one, I had told him not to push. The *big RED button*. I was in the other room when it happened, fast asleep. I was supposed to be watching him, but I hadn't slept the night before. I had been on my assignment, filling out red-tape documents, talking to the guards, everything... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 25,094 |
[WP] Someone, somewhere, someone pushed the red button. | There was a keen whine in the air before things began to rumble, the house shaking about, things falling from shelves, the sound of glass shattering echoing in each of the rooms. Nothing was safe as a sharp crack ruptured outside, a huge tear running up the road's length. The field across the street fell to the same fa... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25,095 |
Humanity nears victory against an alien race. As they capture the homeworld, they realize the entire war started as a misunderstanding. |
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[PM] Have a writer's meetup today. Looking to get in some practice. | After 250 years of construction, the great Hyperspace Gate is complete, travel will be common and trade will be bountiful in the entire galaxy.
It does not work, someone forgot a screw. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25,097 |
[PM] Have a writer's meetup today. Looking to get in some practice. | You've followed across the world to the boundary of of an old map you bought in a curiosity shop. It says Here be Dragons, but you discover something ultimately more incredible. What is is it, and how do you react? | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25,098 |
[PM] Have a writer's meetup today. Looking to get in some practice. | An ambassador to another world, deeply opposed to nihilism, struggles with differences between human and alien morality.
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