Thursday 18 April 2019

A year of Writing Prompts: 19 April

How to use these prompts


Two people in a boat.
What adventures might they have?


Prompts

  1. The first Miss World contest took place on this date in 1951. Write a story about a beauty pageant.
  2. It's top ten songs day. Either choose your ten favourite songs and write about your choices, or imagine your character is asked to do the same thing. Which tracks do they choose, and why?
  3. "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence." Lord Byron
  4. In the French Revolutionary Calendar, today is the day of the knife. Write a story featuring a knife.
  5. Easter Sunday is more likely to fall on this date than any other. Write about someone who spectacularly ends their Lenten fast, gorging on whatever it is they gave up for Lent. It need not be food!


Character Names
Emma, Ladonna, Donald, Don, Donny, Adolf, Leonas, Leontina


Character Traits
  • Independent, self-centred and boastful, which can alienate people.
  • Tendency to underestimate the amount of resources needed to achieve something. Hence they may fail through having insufficient backing. Since they often alienate people, there will be a lack of people willing to help them out.
  • They also underestimate their adversaries. They have a tendency to pick fights and lose because they are not prepared.
  • For males, a woman is likely to be their undoing. They may fall under the influence of a particularly domineering female.
  • Females may feel they are subservient to men and may react by turning to radical feminism.
  • Proficient riders.
  • Beautiful and highly intelligent.
  • Set high standards for themselves and tend to be accurate and neat.
  • Believe in the virtue of hard work.
  • Enjoy arguments and debate.
  • May be religious or political reformers. They have the capability to bring hidden mysteries into popular understanding.
  • Danger of stubborn pride, narrow-mindedness or racism.

Possible Themes
The battle of the sexes.
Cosmic order.
Enrichment of life through friends and family.
Adoption and fostering.


Objects

A duck pond; a wheelbarrow full of earth; a pail of water; a forest fire; a duckling.



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