A Year of Writing Prompts: March 4

How to use these prompts

Who are these people?
Why is the man at the back laughing?
What is the man in armour at the front thinking?

March 4

1. Write about someone who marches forth.
2. "I want to be wholly artificial." Lola Ferrari
3. It's the Festival of Pirate Utopias. Describe a community all pirates aspire to be able to live in and/or retire to. How is it governed? What holidays do they observe? And so on.
4. It's Toy Soldier Day. A little boy has a box of toy soldiers. One night, they come alive at midnight, with the purpose of fighting one battle for him.
5. 1824 saw the founding of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Write a story featuring a lifeboat.

Character Names

Rhoda, Tyrone, Lucia, Adrian, Ada, Alise, Ari, Daina

Character Traits

• Strong maternal or paternal instincts - will put a lot of resources into ensuring the success of their children, while strangers may be treated cruelly, especially if they threaten the family.
• Likely to be involved in a family business and want their children to carry it on.
• Can be over-protective, but are protective and understanding leaders.
• Capable of strong attachment and devotion.
• Prudent and suspicious.
• Can be quarrelsome and unpopular.
• Fall in love easily and can idealise their beloved.
• May use alcohol to get in touch with their creative side.
• Intelligent and clear thinking, with inquiring minds.
• Success comes from perseverance and effort. Will receive favours from people in authority.
• Good communicators.
• Tend to be religious.
• Danger from falls, fire and swords.
• Danger of schizophrenia.
• May avoid saying what needs to be said.

Possible Themes

Life energy; flow.

Inspiration from above; messages from the higher self.

Inner resources.

Supervision and protection.

Awakening.

Objects

A tiger with cubs; a cockerel; a hawk; a trumpet; a wine goblet; a sword.