Monday 4 March 2019

A Year of Writing Prompts: March 5

How to use these prompts

Where might this ship have been before it was wrecked?
How did it end up here?
What secrets is it hiding?



March 5

  1. "Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realise what's wrong with it." Rex Harrison
  2. Japan holds a kite festival about now. Write a story featuring a kite.
  3. It's Multiple Personalities Day. Write a story in which several personalities, or emotions, inside one person argue about what action the person needs to take to solve a problem or get what they want.
  4. In 2014, archaeologists figured out how to read an Ancient Egyptian papyrus and found it was a soldier's letter to his family. What might it have said?
  5. In the French Revolutionary calendar, today was the day of the goat. Write a story featuring a goat.


Character Names
Laila, Leila, Kazimir, Adrian, Aurora, Romeo, Lilian, Lily, Liliana


Character Traits
  • Daring when it comes to physical feats, deeds and ventures, but careful with money.
  • May be involved with something which will spread knowledge or bring pleasure to many people.
  • Eager in their search for knowledge.
  • Generally lucky, but there is a chance misfortune will strike in mid life.
  • Have a tendency to be withdrawn and misanthropic. Association with other people may stave off misfortune, but they need to beware of depending too much on any one source of help.
  • Likely to be involved with litigation and quarrels. Prone to sudden fits of irritability.
  • Keen imagination and lofty ideals.
  • Take on more than they can achieve.
  • Highly intelligent and adaptable. Deal well with change.
  • Will strive to perfect and refine their best ideas.
  • Business and music are possible careers.
  • Danger of bankruptcy.
  • Pessimistic with depressive tendencies.
  • Danger of accidents involving water, including drowning.
  • Patient and determined.

Possible Themes
Audacity.
Renewal, rebirth.
Fertility rites of spring.
Forgiveness.
Joy.


Objects

A bridge; water; a golden spear; a kangaroo with a joey.

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