A year of writing prompts: February 17

How to use these prompts

Write about this band of adventurers.
What is their quest?
Are there tensions between various members of the group?
Perhaps some of them have hidden agendas.

Prompts

1. "We had set the seventeenth of February as the last safe date to leave." Ernest Hemingway
2. "I won't take me coat off, I'm not stopping." Ken Platt
3. It's My Way Day. Write about someone who is adamant things should be done their way.
4. It's Random Acts of Kindness Day. Write about someone who commits a random act of kindness and changes someone's life.
5. Today is the traditional date of the start of the great flood. Write about what life might have been like on the ark from the point of view of one of the animals.

Character Names

Constance, Donata, Bianca, Blanche, Clark, Sylvia, Lucas, Alexandra, Sandra

Character Traits

• Generally lucky and likely to be successful and even famous in their field of work, but tend to be unlucky in relationships and marriage. They may never marry, or if they do their partner may stray.
• Faithful and sincere in love but lack passion and warmth.
• Conservative and self-controlled.
• Practical and thoughtful but unwilling to share with others.
• Self-starters who create their own success by chasing their dreams and goals.
• May be ahead of the times in terms of finding solutions to problems or setting trends.
• Logical with sober judgement, meaning they don't accept any religious or spiritual teaching at face value. It needs to make sense to them before they will take it on board. Therefore spiritual development will be quite slow. That said their natural leaning would be towards occult arts.
• Strict and upright with concern about meeting obligations. They may seek out positions of responsibility.
• Love reading and educate themselves through books.
• They may work with the public, possibly in politics with a responsible position; but may also work in the arts - as a writer, actor or musician.
• Can be isolated and even misanthropic.

Possible Themes

Connections.

Rapid changes; new beginnings.

Prestige and power.

Alchemy.

Ancient civilizations.

Objects

Moonlit fields full of white flowers; a sceptre, globe and throne; undersea ruins; octopuses; sharks.