Prompt - Ones and Zeros

This week's prompt is based off of this clip.



Are you a one or a zero? Do something different with this. Be better.

Prompt - Real vs Fake

Alright, alright. It's been a few weeks since the last prompt. Sorry. But Underground isn't going anywhere, and here's a new prompt.

This week's prompt is a debate of what's real and what's fake. About authenticity and why we all want it.

The idea is contrast. Have fun, dinner is at ripoff McDonald's.

Prompt - Space Walk

Write about space. About being alone. About the silence. About the chaos. About the curiosity.



Maybe go on a moonwalk, or spin out of control. Or just float.

Prompt - Recycled Words

This week, we're recycling words. The idea is to pull random phrases from the internet until you have a coherent sentence. Take screen shots. Copy and paste. Do what you want.

You already do this everyday without knowing. It's just tad more literal this time.

Prompt - Hearts and Homes

This week, we're going for a classic but beautiful metaphor:

Your heart is a home.

But what kind of home is it?
How are the shutters holding up? It was pretty stormy last month.

Stay safe kids, don't be a hotel.

Prompt - What Will Your Verse Be

Write about your verse. Not about the logistics but about the raw emotions.



Maybe I'm taking this too literally. Please, prove me wrong. We all need to be wrong every once in a while.

Prompt - Voice Over

For this week's prompt, you'll need to watch a freaking awesome short film.



Voice Over is a metaphor about feeling close to death during the most important moments of our lives. Write about a moment in your life, with out-of-this-world examples.

Have fun, don't drown, dinner is at 7.

Prompt - Paris Syndrome

This week's prompt is to write about your own version of Paris Syndrome. It's time to be honest: Paris isn't what we thought it was, and that's not a bad thing.

But what is it to you? What is it really?

Prompt - Application

Fill out an application. For a job, for a lifestyle, for a lover. Do what everyone does on resumes: lie a little; build yourself up.

Or even write someone's response to your application. I don't know. Have fun and steal feel stuff.

Blogger Shoutout - Auburn Crane (Hannah Smith)

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog.  Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they're in Disney land or something.

This week's shoutout goes to Auburn Crane, and her blog, A Corner of the Universe.

Hannah's writing is very sincere, the design of her blog accurately articulating its name: it feels like a reading nook. A digital reading nook.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Time Capsule

This week's prompt is to write a time capsule. About who you are now and who you aren't and who you think you're going to be. Then, read it however many years from now.

If you think about it too much, you're almost time traveling. But not really.

Prompt - One More Thing

This week's prompt is to write one more thing. To say everything you should've been saying all along. This is your last chance. This is your moment.

The curtains are about to close. The sun is kissing the mountains. Be real and forget about tomorrow.

This prompt is so frickn' vauge I'm just gonna pretend people actually write about these.

Prompt - Oscars Acceptance Speech

It's June. I have no idea why we're doing this now.

This week's prompt is to write an Oscars acceptance speech. With one condition: when you're rich and famous and accepting an actual award at the actual Academy Awards, you actually have to read it.

Screw the walk out music, just keep going.

Prompt - Voicemail

Write about your voicemail. What it sounds like, what it says, where you were.

Just don't be too intimidating.

Prompt - Coffee Tables

Write about what's on your coffee table in your living room. I don't care if you don't have one, make it up.

What books are there? Anything else? #metephor

Blogger Shoutout - Blue

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they're in Disney land or something.

This week's shoutout goes to Blue, and her blog, Sincerely.

Blue's writing is unapologetically unique. It's beautiful and creative. There's nothing else like it.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Hello There

We just wrote about goodbyes. Now lets try saying hello.

People say hello. Computers say hello. Now it's your turn. What do you have to say?

Blogger Shoutout - Peyton Sawyer

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they found a penny on the street or something.

This week's shoutout goes to Peyton Sawyer.

Peyton's posts are wonderfully metaphorical, containing deeper meanings that we can all understand.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Goodbyes

Write about goodbyes. About what we've left behind and what we should remember.

Maybe there's some goodbyes we should forget, too.

Blogger Shoutout - Sgt. Pepper (McKay Utley)

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they've struck gold or something.

This week's shoutout goes to McKay Utley, and his blog, Sgt. Pepper

McKay's posts always contain beautiful visualizations that are used to articulate emotions in a very authentic way.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Found

Write about someone or something you found. About finding ourselves and that shoe you lost last week.

Don't forget to check the closet.

Blogger Shoutout - Lost Summers

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they've found themselves or something.

This week's shoutout goes to Lost Summers, and their blog, Abyss.

Lost's posts always have brilliant metaphors that go even further than we can see, making us want to look harder, finding a meaning for ourselves.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Lost

Write about a time you lost something, someone, or yourself. About the gap they left where your heart used to go.

Maybe you'll find something, too.

Blogger Shoutout - Charles Darnell

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they just won an Oscar or something.

This week's shoutout goes to Charles Darnell.

Charles's writing is well paced, containing short sentences that somehow mean a lot more than the letters they're made of.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Code to Live By

Write about any codes or moral rules you have that should never be broken. And I'm not talking about religious ones. I'm talking about the first rule of fight club. (Oops.)

Have fun. Be different.

Blogger Shoutout - Captain Blaire

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they're better than everybody else.

This week's shoutout goes to Captain Blaire.

Their writing is intriguing, questioning what we've been told our whole lives. It asks the questions we're all afraid to ask because we can't always answer them.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Scotch Tape

Write about Scotch tape. About how we used it to hold blanket-fort roofs over our heads when we were kids and how that's a metaphor or something.

Scotch tape holds the world together.

Blogger Shoutout - Harold Miner (Kyle Nelson)

This one isn't randomly selected. You need to read his newest post. It's for us.

It's for all of us.

Check it out here.

We won't give up.

Prompt - Autocorrect

This week's prompt is about autocorrect. About what we almost say, before autocorrect comes in and ensures that we're politically correct.

Be creative abut it.

Prompt - Hatred

Write about why we hate, about what we hate. What is it to you? Is hate real?

Don't name names. Play nice.

Blogger Shoutout - Ardon Smith

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they're in a movie or something.

This week's shoutout goes to Ardon Smith, and his blog, Private Conversation. 

Ardon's never been in a creative writing class, making his blog even more impressive, because it's brilliant. These blogs show the sides of people that we never really get to see.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Lies

Write about how you've lied to yourself. About what you don't want to confront. Write about how it made you feel.

Maybe you felt nothing at all.

Blogger Shoutout - Jane Doe

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they're a kid on Christmas again.

This week's shoutout goes to Jane Doe.

Her blog is filled with beautiful, intelligent writing that always makes a statement. A description can't really do it justice.

Check it out here.

Prompt - How To Be Normal

Write a tutorial about being normal. About what people expect us to do and what we actually do.

Humans are stupid.

Blogger Shoutout - Hanna Madsen

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they're in Disneyland or something. 

This week's shout out goes to Hanna Madsen, and her blog, Let's Be Real. 

Her blog is fun to read and has a great taste in photos to go along with her posts. She's been writing since August 2013, so she knows what she's doing.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Letter To The Dead

Write a letter to someone who's dead. Know them personally, or don't. Maybe they're only dead to you or maybe they're dead to someone you know.

I would say "be creative" but I figure you're way ahead of me.

Blogger Shoutout - Timothy Kelly (Hailey Brooks)

Each week a randomly selected a Paris Underground writer gets a shoutout on the blog. Let's bombard them with comments and make them feel like they're in Disneyland or something.

This week's shoutout goes to Timothy Kelly, also known as Hailey Brooks.

She's been writing since August of this year. Besides from her cool posts, there's a Things To Do When You're Sad section on her blog. It's pretty neat. Her writing is poetic, too.

Check it out here.

Prompt - Who Are You

Paris Underground is officially live. It's time to begin.

Who are you? Write a new introduction. We've all learned a lot since we first started. What's changed? What have you learned about life since then?

Write about it if you feel like it. We'll see how these go. 

Also: Please put a link back to Underground on your blog. (How to) This community is growing, and you can help. And that's awesome.

There'll be a blogger shoutout on Friday. Let me know if you like this stuff. A community of writers who actually care about each other would be pretty cool. This is special.