January Writing Prompt Challenge: Day 19
Jan. 19th, 2021 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerTuesday! Strange day. Okay day. Nice call with my folks. No more mincing words - prompt time!
DAY NINETEEN PROMPT:
A ghost wants to stop being haunted by a date, but it will mean confessing to an old sin.
Okay, ghost coming up first and haunted after just makes me laugh. I love the idea of a ghost being haunted by someone - in this case, a date. At first I considered making it another ghost, but it might be funnier if it was a human that's now "haunting" the ghost that totally isn't into them. Maybe they're a bit of a ghost chaser, and at first the ghost was kind of flattered that the human was interested in them, and they hadn't been on a date in a WHILE, so... what the heck? But it isn't going to work out - they're not interested in the ghost as a person, but almost as a sort of fetish. So the ghost decides to take the human on a bit of a ride - really expose the horrors of ghosthood, lay bare the reason they're bound to this mortal plane, absolutely ham it up, try to scare the pants off of them. Only it doesn't work. This is exactly what they were looking for. Actually it turns out that just being honest and saying "I'm not that into you" is what works. Maybe the ghost knew that but also knew it would be harder to be honest. It's something they're working on. And the human backs off, and with a little tweaking... what do you know? They actually make pretty decent friends.
Fun! Now, audio editing, and reading, and relaxing.
DAY NINETEEN PROMPT:
A ghost wants to stop being haunted by a date, but it will mean confessing to an old sin.
Okay, ghost coming up first and haunted after just makes me laugh. I love the idea of a ghost being haunted by someone - in this case, a date. At first I considered making it another ghost, but it might be funnier if it was a human that's now "haunting" the ghost that totally isn't into them. Maybe they're a bit of a ghost chaser, and at first the ghost was kind of flattered that the human was interested in them, and they hadn't been on a date in a WHILE, so... what the heck? But it isn't going to work out - they're not interested in the ghost as a person, but almost as a sort of fetish. So the ghost decides to take the human on a bit of a ride - really expose the horrors of ghosthood, lay bare the reason they're bound to this mortal plane, absolutely ham it up, try to scare the pants off of them. Only it doesn't work. This is exactly what they were looking for. Actually it turns out that just being honest and saying "I'm not that into you" is what works. Maybe the ghost knew that but also knew it would be harder to be honest. It's something they're working on. And the human backs off, and with a little tweaking... what do you know? They actually make pretty decent friends.
Fun! Now, audio editing, and reading, and relaxing.
