Thursday 24 January 2019

A Year of Writing Prompts: January 25

How to use these prompts


A fire hydrant painted to look like a clown?
Or an alien visitor?
Or some other kind of fantasy creature?



Prompts

  1. It's A Room of One's Own Day. Write about someone getting a room of their own for the first time.
  2. "I should have suspected trouble when the Haggis failed to arrive". A story for Burns Night.
  3. "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned." W. Somerset Maugham
  4. It's Observe the Weather Day. Write about some people who are observing the weather.
  5. It's Tatiana Day. She is the patron saint of students. Write a story featuring students.


Character Names
Paul, Gregory, Margarita, Sigurd, Charity, Cheryl, Cherie, Neil, Neal, Joel


Character Traits
  • Mature and well balanced.
  • Peaceful and tranquil.
  • Enjoy reading and discussions.
  • Usually entitled to more than they have, and are unconscious of their powers.
  • Will either be extremely impulsive to the extent they rush into ambitious projects without any planning and get into serious conflict with others; or never act on impulse at all.
  • Tend to believe the grass is greener elsewhere.
  • Health issues may prevent them from achieving as much wealth and status as they could.
  • May have had emotionally absent parents, or parents who demanded achievement.
  • May have problems with their eyesight.
  • Danger of assault, injury and hateful jealousy.
  • May become an expert on a given topic.
  • Psychology, medicine, communications and travel are all possible career fields.
  • Tactful, just and objective.
  • Can be hard to understand.


Possible Themes
Creativity; creative tension. Birth of creative ideas.
Genetic engineering and IVF. Mutations.
Submission.
Adoption.
Struggles to break free.

Objects

An egg; a sword; a bran doll hanging on a wall; a burning lamp; a burning book of black magic.







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