Your Daily Theme: Smiling

People smile during every type of emotion. It is a cover, or a front, or an instinctual/sarcastic response. Write a scene in which a character smiles, but he or she is not happy. Think about how someone smiles when they are angry, or sad, or frightened, or nervous. Pick one of these emotions to portray with a smile.

Your Daily Theme: Opening Line

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Your Daily Theme: Opening Line 

“His breath was coming in short bursts. If he had known that society was going to  collapse violently, he definitely would have done more cardio.”

Use this line as inspiration for a poem, scene, or short-story.

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Your Daily Theme: Struggle

Every story has conflict, some kind of internal or external struggle for a character. If your story is falling flat, inserting more or different conflict might be the solution. Even small conflict helps illuminate a character.

Place your character in an everyday situation, but create a minor and persistent annoyance. Maybe his cell phone is drained. Maybe her shoelace is broken. Have your character perform some everyday errands with this annoyance. How does he/she respond?

Possible annoyances:

• Drained cell phone
• Broken shoelace
• A large zit 
• Can’t find the car keys
• Alarm didn’t go off in the morning
• Something in his/her shoe
• Painful hangnail