A Year of Writing Prompts: 13 June

How to use these prompts

Who is the good guy and who is the bad guy here?
Time for a superheroes in outer space story.

Prompts

1. In 1831, a young woman called Lucy Lightfoot went, as was her habit, to visit a wooden effigy of a crusader named Edward Estur, as she was obsessed with him. As usual, she left her horse outside the church and went in. Only today, there was a violent storm and a solar eclipse. Later, Lucy's horse was still where she left it but she was gone. What's more, the dagger had been torn from the effigy's hand and lay in pieces on the altar. Tell the story of what happened to Lucy. If it helps, later on it was discovered that Estur had known a Lucy Lightfoot during his 14th century lifetime.
2. In 1920, the US Post Office ruled that children must not be sent by parcel post. Write about a child who is posted somewhere.
3. On National Juggling Day, write a story in which the principal character is a juggler.
4. Mary Whitehouse, campaigner for moral values, was born in 1910. Your character is on a one man (or woman) crusade to preserve moral decency.
5. "A demon is a god reflected." William Butler Yeats

Character Names

Antony, Tony, Tonya, Latoya, Antoinette, Anton, Antonia, Antonio, Lucian

Character Traits

• Likely to be more successful in the earlier years of their life than the later ones.
• They need to beware of false friends and ungrateful people who can cause their downfall.
• Have a tendency to give up the fight.
• Tendency to trust to luck or blind faith. May be gamblers.
• May find that their children cast them off or do not support them in old age, but they do not become bitter about this.
• May turn to mysticism in later life.
• Good imaginations and often have original ideas. May become inventors.
• Good at maths.
• Shy and retiring.
• Sensitive in romance.
• Career choices may include: business, science, projecting and the arts, composers, administrators or instructors.
• Danger of losing a hand or arm and of injuries to the eyes.
• May be blind or have defective sight.
• Resist change.
• May be insecure and co-dependent.
• Possible violent death.

Possible Themes

Safety, familiarity.

Shared living spaces.

Sibling rivalry; pecking orders

Objects

A birds' nest; a walking stick; a hill; an oak tree damaged by a storm; a tunnel created by trees.