A year of writing prompts: 26 April

How to use these prompts

Statue for tourists to pose with or a living being?

Prompts

1. Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition first opened in London on this date in 1928. Write about a waxwork museum which is haunted, and the customers who, either by accident or design, get locked in overnight.
2. It's Remember Your First Kiss Day. Write about a couple sharing their first kiss. Alternatively, describe your own.
3. "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Or do they?
5. The 26th of every month is All You Can Eat Day which advocates taking a homeless person out for lunch and let them eat as much as they want. Write about someone who does this. What do your character and the homeless person talk about over lunch? Are there any long lasting consequences?

Character Names

Teresa, Geraldine, Taylor, Yolanda, Marcelina, Otto

Character Traits

• Highly intelligent and talented in the arts or science.
• Will do well in any career which requires delicacy and skill. Law, teaching and semantics may attract them.
• They may have been born with a physical flaw of some kind, or acquire one through an accident; but will overcome their obstacles and achieve great things in their field, possibly even making historical discoveries or inventions. May have an important mission or destiny to fulfill.
• There is, however, a danger that they will become reclusive and dedicated only to their work.
• Capable of multi-tasking.
• Their sensitivity, insight and compassion borders on the psychic.
• They are gifted at communication and subtly influencing other people - so make capable leaders.
• Usually reliable and trustworthy - inspire confidence.
  
• Love beauty in art or nature.
• Open minded and inquisitive.
• Have rich imaginations and inner lives.
• Can be vain, self-involved and aloof.
• Sexual excesses may prove to be their downfall.
• Going to extremes of any kind is possible - could become either and ascetic or a glutton.
• Tendency to skirt issues, take short cuts and escape the obligations of daily life.

Possible Themes

Sense of touch.

Spanning gaps, overcoming separation. 

Conquering barriers. 

Solutions.

Extreme sports.

Objects

A cantilever bridge; a scroll; a three-headed man; a pink diamond; a cat; a piece of string.