Haikuandydotcom sends a daily Haiku if you sign up for it. Today’s makes a good writing prompt.
chinese restaurant
the future manager
refills our water
Makes me wonder about the future manager. Does he/she know about the future promotion? How long will it take? What is the character like, kind or ruthless? Is there an internal struggle? Perhaps accomplishing success in a restaurant doesn’t satisfy the deep desire to do other work. What does the facial expression look like? What is revealed by the body language as the water is poured?
I sense the character emerging but I have to say “later”. I already have characters clamoring for attention. Hada wants to be published this year. Lilli wants her story completed since she’s ready to redeem herself from her deeds in Hada’s story. Jill wants to time travel, but she sits in an outline.
Maybe someone else will be inspired to write about the future restaurant manager. I’d love to read the story.
Julaina Kleist-Corwin 
It is strange how the human mind works. Your prompt catches me at a time when Casey Lawrence is fighting to figure out marketing strategies and Magdelaine LaFramboise is arguing with me over how to tell her story. I read your blog and my thoughts skipped down a crazy path from one random idea to another. Chinese restaurant. Any restaurant. My daughter considered opening a restaurant. A teenage slob, she was to be a future manager. She morphed into the ultimate organizer, juggling her work, her kids, and even me. Onward my thoughts skittered, to a dinner out. My daughter leaving us to babysit when she and her husband enjoyed a short reprieve. .Hmmm, it was a lot of mental leapfrogging, but I’m seeing a story come to the forefront to displace other competition for my writing time. It will have no resemblance to the prompt. Maybe that’s the beauty of prompts. They can lead us anywhere. Thanks.
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Good. I’m happy the prompt inspired you. Looking forward to what you wrote.
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Julaina – I love where writing prompts, both words and visuals send my mind. I’ll often wake in the night and think of snips of stories. However, I’m not sure that’s a good idea for someone who suffers from insomnia. My own characters continue to clammer in my head but had a big break through a little over a week ago – a real duh moment. Now I’m anxious to move along into the final stretch.
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I love the duh moments. Get those characters moving to the finish line..
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