Writing Prompt: Set Your Story!

For this writing prompt, pick a setting. It can be anywhere! The more fantastical the better! But, the more specific the better too! Give me rich detail, ambiance that fits what genre you write in; if you’re a poet, give me a poem! I want to see your most vivid imagery, your most descriptive language! I want to see sentence structure that matches the place you chose. If you chose a field of rolling hills, I want sentences that seem to meander onward and onward with leaps and bounds that excite us and little burrows where the rabbits hop and play! After you’ve written, post in the comments, and we can all go through and try to guess where you’ve teleported us!

You have fifteen minutes!

Go!

Here’s Mine!

Salt. In the air, collecting in white fragments. Rolling along with the abandoned bottles; smelling like the sharp bitterness of old alcohol that doesn’t age as well as wine. Ropes threaded; brittle; frayed where they’ve snapped and tattered themselves among the wood and tangling winding of the crow’s nest. Mops of sludge spilled over with the lean of the hull, and the planks that broke with splinters edged in blood. Swords glint in the light, their handles gleaming, blades rusted, their paths strewn with ash and gun-powder, and the bits of the sails and mast that fractured themselves under the pressure. Down below, down down down to the fathoms and darkness where oil lamps sit soaking and hammocks lean with skeletons hanging loose, the gold of a coin flickers from an unmarked chest.

Can you guess what setting I chose?