Writing Prompt #21: Wildlife/ Wild Life

Wild life. Wildlife.

Whether we’re talking about nature or our daily lives, living itself can be pretty wild.

I’m inspired to issue this wild challenge by a skunk currently residing in my garage. Though my dogs harass it every chance they get, it hasn’t sprayed anyone. Yet. (As I was finishing writing this, I heard a loud bark from outside and smelled a distinctive smell. Our big dog, Angus, got himself sprayed. He also got himself nights in the doghouse instead of the bedroom!)

I’ve been trading wild animal stories with a friend of mine lately and was reminded of a sticky situation.

I’d been painting outside for hours. I was using oils and turpentine. I felt my cat brush up against my jeans and reached down to pet him. He had something sticky and bristly all over his back. I looked down to see what he had gotten into and froze.

I had just petted a skunk. All I could do was say, “Nice Flower. Don’t spray!” I went back to painting and the skunk went back under the house.

I prefer wildlife over most human life. We already know that. We also already know I lived a fairly wild life. I was up to shenanigans at a very young age.

This week’s challenge is all about taking a walk on the wild side. Whether you write about wildlife or wild life is up to you.

Keep reading until the end of the article. I've included some videos for extra inspiration.

Just remember to follow the rules and guidelines.

Rules

Only 5! Number 2 and number 5 are the very most important.

1. Write anything on Wildlife (nature) or Wild Life (lifestyle)

2. Write 100% original content

3. Join and submit your story to the PromptlyJonica community

4. Tag me @JonicaBradley

5. Have fun!

Guidelines.

These aren't rules, they are suggestions. But they are strong suggestions.

• 
  Read the PromptlyJonica community rules

• Write at least 600 words so Rustly will reward you

• Caption and accredit every image (even your own) - make sure you have the right to use the image. Sometimes an image search on Google will yield images that are license protected. That means it is against the law to use them. Try finding images from Unsplash, Pixabay, or Wikimedia Commons

• There are no deadlines or time limits. You may write on any prompt, any time, as many times as you want, forever.  Here's a list with all of the writing prompts linked and in order.

• This is a prompt community and as such will only approve prompt response submissions. I love a lot of the stories that come through but have to reject them because they aren't prompt related.

• Keep in mind read.cash is a worldwide community and as such hosts writers and readers from every culture. Please save your religious text quotes for spiritual communities geared toward such.

• Please do not copy and paste other writers' work. If it is just to include the rules and guidelines, that is fine, but don't take credit for someone else's hard work.

• Use Grammarly or another editing software to check your grammar. Grammarly is free and user-friendly. Unless you have perfect grammar and spelling (if you do, you are the only person in the world ever) you'll need to at least re-read what you wrote. Try reading it out loud. That's how I catch most of my errors. (I need to practice this last one more, myself.

  Here’s some more inspiration:

Lou Reed

The Troggs

Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom Intro Theme

Lead and first image Photo by Bryan Padron on Unsplash