It’s time to take out your pencils, typewriters, or personal scribes, because today we have a writing prompt for you.
As you know, we recently returned from Alaska. Although we go to Alaska to catch fish, while we’re there, we do our best to avoid bears. You know, grizzly bears. They are very large.
Fortunately, the bears would rather not spend time with people and so they mostly come out at night. But almost every morning, we see their pawprints on the beach.
They walk along the water’s edge at high tide, looking for any fish that might have been swept to shore.
There is another menace in Alaska, one even more fearsome than bears.
Mosquitoes. They are everywhere and they are mean, and we spend most of our time trying to squish them before they get us. Sometimes we squish them right after they get us.
It is a constant battle, one with heavy casualties on both sides.
And so, your writing prompt for today:
Write story about bears and mosquitoes. It can be a true story of your personal adventures with either of these pests, or it can be an imaginary story. Or, if you have nothing to say about bears or mosquitoes, feel free to write a story about the beasts that you’d rather avoid, whether lions or dragons or cute little white mice.
Send us your story (be sure to give it a name) by next Monday afternoon (August 12th), so that I can post it on this blog next Tuesday.
Happy writing!