I’m not a hoarder.

Or at least I’m not anymore.  When I was young, I would collect all my Halloween candy into a plastic My Little Pony suitcase and store it under my bed.  I didn’t eat any of the candy.  Instead of having bits of chocolate at the corners of my mouth or a blue tongue from some artificially-flavored sucker, I would tuck it away.  Why?  Well, it wasn’t so much for me as it was for other people.  When friends would come over and ask to see “it”, I would slide the bag out from it’s hiding spot and undo the aluminum latches and then I’d wait for the response.  That’s what it was for: to see the wide eyes, hear the pleasing “ah” fall out of my friends’ mouths.  I was showing little kids the Holy Grail of Rancid Confections.  The fact that they were pleased was more pleasurable to me than tucking my cheeks full of sugar.

And that, friends, is what begins today’s writing prompt.

Let’s get our pleasure on.

Writing Prompt #7 – As It Please You

You can take this writing assignment two ways: go the autobiographical route or work it around a character in a story you’re working on.  Or you could do neither. You could just read this prompt and flip me the middle finger.  Because honestly I have no idea what it is that you’re going to do after you read this.  Unless I’m stalking you.  And I don’t know if I’m stalking you because I don’t know who “you” are.  But there is a good chance I’m stalking you anyway.

You can look at my bits and pieces, but you CANNOT eat them.

ANYWAY.

What activity do you engage in that gives others as much, if not more pleasure, than it gives to yourself?  And let’s be realistic; the activity need only be a little ego-less on your/your character’s part.  I really loved seeing other people drool over my candy.  That part was for me.

Got it?  Now write a scene describing the action that makes other folks happy as clams or as giddy as kids looking at a rainbow-colored suitcase full of moldering Snickers Bars.