A Year of Writing Prompts: January 23

How to use these prompts

Write about someone who needs to go somewhere in this car.
Assuming it's an essential journey (to them, at least),
do they get there?
What happens on the way?

Prompts

1. "The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unaddressed on Earth." Charles Kingsley
2. "The first snowdrop of spring."
3. "Television is a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well done." Ernie Kovacs
4. In 1946 Sidney Souers became the first Director of the CIA. Write a spy story.
5. In 1942 Earl Tupper bought the first Tupperware factory. Write a story that takes place at a Tupperware party.

Character Names

Zelma, Raymond, Kerry, Cesar, Milos, Emelia, Emelie

Character Traits

• Piercing intellect, and fertile imagination. Promise of genius from an early age. Quick to grasp impressions and turn thoughts into activity.
• Elegant tastes and a love of luxury.
• It's important to them that their sexual and sensual needs are met - so adulterous affairs are likely. They enjoy being desired, and are attractive, seductive and earthy.
• Paradoxically, they could also be drawn to a religious vocation.
• Not accurate judges of their own capabilities - tend to over or under estimate themselves.
• May gamble and speculate.
• Interested in Oriental philosophies.
• May have a talent for portrait painting or sculpture. Especially like art featuring love, beauty, children or flowers.
• Like to shock people by what they do or say.
• May become fantasy writers, or alternatively, doctors.
• Conservative, and don't move with the times. This can be a problem.
• May be bound by family or past life karma.
• Danger of untimely death.

Possible Themes

Smoothness.

Peace.

The North; midnight; winter.

The divine feminine.

Wisdom of those who have gone before. Parents and grandparents.

Committees and councils.

Karma.

Objects

A crown of flowers; painting and sculpture tools; cobwebs; a crypt; an obese nature goddess; a pool of water.