30 Days of Writing, Day 11: prepared
using the prompts below, write a drabble (or whatever) a day for the next 30 days. find someone willing to hit you if you miss a day. look back at the end and go ‘oh! i’m a writer!’.
beginning. accusation. restless. snowflake. haze. flame. formal. companion. move. silver. prepared. knowledge. denial. wind. order. thanks. look. summer. transformation. tremble. sunset. mad. thousand. outside. winter. diamond. letters. promise. simple. future.
Cato is muscle and energy, blood and promise. He stares out over the screaming crowd, eyes hard and jaw clenched, tendons taut in his massive neck. He vibrates in the tiny chair, the body of the boy unable to contain the monster itching underneath.
A fighter, Caesar says. Cato’s eyes gleam, words chopping off in short, savage phrases: Prepared. Vicious. Ready to go.
When Clove falls he cradles her dented skull in giant, bloody hands. “Stay with me, I wasn’t ready, come back, I'm not ready -“
She can’t hear him. Katniss, fleeing, doesn’t stop. A million viewers reach for popcorn.
beginning. accusation. restless. snowflake. haze. flame. formal. companion. move. silver. prepared. knowledge. denial. wind. order. thanks. look. summer. transformation. tremble. sunset. mad. thousand. outside. winter. diamond. letters. promise. simple. future.
Cato is muscle and energy, blood and promise. He stares out over the screaming crowd, eyes hard and jaw clenched, tendons taut in his massive neck. He vibrates in the tiny chair, the body of the boy unable to contain the monster itching underneath.
A fighter, Caesar says. Cato’s eyes gleam, words chopping off in short, savage phrases: Prepared. Vicious. Ready to go.
When Clove falls he cradles her dented skull in giant, bloody hands. “Stay with me, I wasn’t ready, come back, I'm not ready -“
She can’t hear him. Katniss, fleeing, doesn’t stop. A million viewers reach for popcorn.