Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
Your character works out how to save the world from imminent disaster, but struggles with procrastination.
This should be a humorous story where your character knows the gravity of the situation but can't help their responses to normal, everyday distractions.
Writings
Tomorrow
Well that’s not good.
To catch you up, my name is Jill. I am your average teenaged girl, so I don’t exaclty know how I ended up in the my own wrecked house with the knowledge that my parents are spies.
Looking back, it might not have been a good idea to attempt to hack into a secretive USB file that I found lying on the kitchen counter…
… but in my defense, that thing was just asking to get br...
Just A Drill
The control room had been evacuated. Jill had heard the evacuation warnings blaring through the sound system at The Global Protection Agency but had thought “Probably just a drill.” She hadn’t investigated further.
She was focused on her research work that had been due the previous day and wanted to submit her findings as she had found much of her work under the scrutiny of the head scientist-...
Eventually…
Welcome! You are on earth, in the year of 3098! Nice vacation choice—water, rolling green hills, cool modern cities, even air—you can take that space helmet off. What a beautiful planet!
Unfortunately, we have a problem. Crazy robots have figured out how to alter climate change into a physical manifestation. They are multiplying them by the thousands in their secret lair and soon will unleash the...
I’ll Get To It
“Ughhh, I KNOW mom, I’m gonna do it!”
That was my go to response as a kid, no matter what the thing was my parents wanted me to do.
I’m sure they thought I’d grow out of it, but no such luck. I’ve still never met a deadline I couldn’t procrastinate on. I don’t even start eating the eggs in my refrigerator until just a couple of days before they expire.
If I hadn’t been born with a really good...
Twenty-four Hours
“I’ve got plenty of time,” I thought as I snapped my laptop shut. “The algorithm is done,” I called to Suzanna. “Once I upload it, we’ll be in the clear!” Relief flooded my whole body. I felt practically euphoric.
“Fabulous!” Suzanna plopped onto the couch. “I’m so relieved! I mean, just think, this time tomorrow everything could have been over.” She sat very still, contemplating the weight of t...
The Procrastinator
Once upon a time, in a world not too dissimilar from our own, the impending doom of an asteroid hurtling towards Earth had the entire planet in a frenzy. Panic, chaos, and uncertainty reigned supreme, as people desperately sought a hero to save them from their impending demise. Little did they know that their savior was about to face a bizarre predicament of his own.
Meet Harold, an ordinary guy ...
The End Of The World
“But I love you, Charles!” the woman pleaded, tears running down her face.
“Veronica… you can’t.” The man said, turning away from her.
“Why not?!”
“I am your twin brother.”
Jacob gasped from his couch and then paused the TV to assimilate what was going on. Charles was her brother? No way… but now that he thought about it they did look eerily similar. He then started to remember the little thi...
Little time to save the world
You know I never really had the urge to stand up in front of a group or thousands to millions of people, like I am quite a introverted person, I don't even really like to talk to people I am really close to I mostly just talk to them through eye contact. But a few days ago I found out that the world is coming to an end if we don't do something about it. And how did I find out about this? You may a...
How To Get A Teen To Do The Laundry
Mom: “SON! What are you doing?! You have to do your laundry!!”
Ben: “I’m playing this totally addictive game so why don’t you go do the laundry?!”
Mom: “Son-“
Ben: “THANKS MOM!!”
Mom: sighs in frustration and goes downstairs to see the sky has turned green like in his game!
Mom: SCREAMING “Son!! Look outside!!!”
Ben: unsure of why his mom won’t say his name looks to see the green sky
Mom: Why is t...