A Year of Writing Prompts: March 21

How to use these prompts

What is the building? A house? If so, who lives there?
A hotel? A pub? School? Care home?
Who are the people sitting on the bench?

Prompts

1. Either today or yesterday is Astrology Day, celebrated at the Vernal Equinox. Write a story featuring astrology - it could feature an astrologer, or someone who reads their stars in the newspaper.
2. Mrs Badger has been married to three husbands... and each time upon the twenty-first of March at eleven in the forenoon." Charles Dickens
3. The famous prison, Alcatraz, closed in 1963. Write a story about a prison which is closing. Why is it closing? What happens to any inmates who are still there at the end?
4. A man named William Miller predicted that the world would end on this date in 1845 and then again in 1844. Nothing happened, of course. Write about someone who predicts a catastrophe which doesn't occur. What does the person do when nothing happens?
5. It's National Teenagers Day. Write a story about teenagers.

Character Names

Benedict. Una, Dalton, Eileen, Ben, Benny

Character Traits

• Ambitious people who will go all out to get what they want and be the best at what they do.
• They will take risks and suffer any hardship in pursuit of their goals.
• Physically and morally strong with the ability to face and endure difficult challenges.
• There is a danger they will succumb to temptation - there is a danger of addiction.
• Can be quarrelsome or bossy.
• Self-confident people who believe in themselves.
• Blind enthusiasm is a danger - they will rush into what they believe to be right without thinking things through,
• Have a sense of fair play and justice but a tendency to lack flexibility and be sticklers for rules.
• Can be jealous when they don't get what they want.
• Passionate and independent.
• Quick minds and excellent reflexes.
• Military, arts and philosophy are possible careers.
• Want to understand the essential meanings of things.
• May find themselves embroiled in lawsuits over inheritance matters.

Possible Themes

Beginnings, emergence, birth.

Identity.

Acceptance.

Decisive action, confidence.

Objects

A seal; a scythe; a ball of fire; a stone wall; a warship.