Writing Prompt – You Find A New Door …

Writing Prompt
A writing prompt can be fun and productive. Today I’m going to keep it simple.
 
You may remember the productivity tips from my earlier post 10 Productivity Tips For Any Writer. Well, one bonus tip I should have added was to write from a writing prompt regularly. Why, because writing to an idea that is outside your head is an excellent exercise to free up your imagination and help prevent the dreaded writers’ block.
 

Today’s Writing Prompt

Your main character comes home from a long day at work, and when she opens the door, she finds a new door in her living room.
 

My Attempt At This Writing Prompt

My name is Dr. Lucy Doyle, and this is how I entered the year of my mother’s birth.
 
August 21, 2034, started like most other days. I woke up, went to the lab, worked on the Doyle Collider, and after a long day, came home to eat, sleep, and repeat. I don’t have much time for a social life since the collider came online so, outside of work, life was simple; reality was simple.
 
That is until that fateful August day.
 
I arrived home after stopping off for some take out (I love bulgogi). As I swiped the access key to my pod door, I knew something wasn’t quite right. Call it intuition, call it subliminal observation, call it whatever you want, but I sensed something was off. It wasn’t until I fully pushed the secure door open and entered the living bay that I noticed it. When I left this morning, the living bay had three doors. One door led to the kitchen. One door led to the inner sleeping pod. The third door, well, I just walked through the third door.
 
But, between the other two interior doors now was a new door, and it didn’t look like anything I had ever seen! This door was about one meter shorter than the other standard doors. It also didn’t have any observable means of opening it. There was an amber glow that seeped from the seams on all sides. But the most unusual thing was that I couldn’t fully focus on the door. It seemed to come in and out of focus as I watched.
 
My first thought was that something had happened when I was working on the collider earlier. The collider is known to have some strange effects on people. Time distortion was the most common side effect. Also, auditory hallucinations, though less common, were also known to occur. But, these side effects wore off after a few hours, and this was nothing like those. This aberration was nothing like anything I have ever seen.
 
Let me ask you a question, what do you think I should have done at this point? Called someone? Turn around and left? While probably not my most brilliant idea, I put my things down, walked over to the glowing amber door, and pushed.
 
As soon as my hands touched the cold surface, not only did the glow diminish, but the visible seam around the edge began to fade away. After about 15 seconds, I could barely make out the edge of my new door. I placed my fingers on what I thought was the seam, but couldn’t feel anything there.
 
Standing back, I noticed that after a minute or so, the outer edge began to show again, and after another minute, the amber glow had returned. The longer I looked, the more details I could make out.
 
I tried to push on the door again, but the same thing happened. Push the door, lose the door.
 
I decided to sit down and think this out. Maybe after some food, things would make sense.
 
By the time I finished eating, I had been looking at this illusive door for some time. But, the longer I looked, the more details emerged. I now noticed what appeared to be a fingerprint scanner where the handle probably would be.
 
Deciding to test my luck, I placed my thumb on the scanner.
 
Pssst, the door slowly opened toward me. Steam and an acrid smell slowly began to enter the living bay. Inside the door was a staircase that led right and up and a staircase that led left and down.
 
I chose down.
 
 

That Was Fun, Now It’s Your Turn

 
Grab your writing journal and use this, or another, writing prompt.
Find more writing prompts at StoryWritingPrompts.com.
 
Remember, the primary purpose of a writing prompt is to get you moving, get the creative juices flowing, and get some words down on the page. There are no rules. You don’t even need to finish the story. It is just a method of writing something and seeing where the story leads.
 
For more information on writing prompts, please see my earlier post Writing prompts, what are they, and how do I use them?
 
 
 
 
Happy Writing,
 
Sandy

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