Writing Prompts: Like a Child

Thinking of writing prompts about children is hard. Children and childhood is such an emotionally charged subject that I find it difficult to just throw them in the pool with no floaties on, so to speak. So today we are going to deviate a little and write about adults who act like children. I worked for over seventeen years in various customer service positions so this, by far, is the easiest set of writing prompts I have ever written.

1. Write about an group of office workers that engage in an office war complete with paperclips, staples and post it note bombs.

2. Write about a person in their forties still trying to wear young fashions.

3. Write the scene of an adult throwing an out and out temper tantrum because a car rental agency doesn’t have the car they want.

4. Write about someone who pulls the “I’m the boss’s favorite” line to get others to do their bidding.

5. Write about a verbal confrontation that involves words like “cooties” and “mama’s boy”.