A year of writing prompts: 7 June

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Prompts

1. About now is National Trails Day. Observed in the US, it's a day to celebrate hiking trails and the people who look after them. Write a story involving a group of people who go for a hike.
2. It's Bus Stop Day. Two people are waiting for a bus...
3. "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone among smiling enemies." Elizabeth Bowen
4. "If I can but hide away until my birthday on June the seventh, I shall be free of Uncle's guardianship." Emily Hendrikson
5. It's the birthday of modern artist Damien Hurst, famous for controversial works like pickled sharks. Your character is an artist who is exhibiting extremely odd or dubious works of art. What are they? How do people react to them?

Character Names

Robert, Lucretia, Roberta, Bobby, Bobbie, Robin, Bert, Bob

Character Traits

• Tend to be dreamy and impractical. May be reluctant to grow up.
• Possible talent for magic or the supernatural.
• Their lack of practical skill may be innate or may have come about as the result of an accident.
• Good leaders and well able to get others to perform practical tasks for them.
• Can be overbearing and egotistical.
• May come from a wealthy or high-born family.
• Have expensive tastes.
• Sometimes get carried away and rush into things, and therefore gain no lasting benefit.
• Do not always learn from, or make the most of bad situations.
• Have difficulty expressing their feelings and in giving or accepting help.
• Outgoing and cordial.
• Good imagination.
• May have a unique genius which they develop to the extent that they become unbalanced and eccentric.
• Tendency to steal.
• Careers could include teaching or the military.
• Could be affected by war injury, bomb attack or hit and run accidents.
• Health problems could include asthma, kidney disease, lung problems, eye problems, or weakness in the hands.

Possible Themes

Coming of age; initiations into adulthood.

Having to change.

Breathing.

Hands.

Objects

A broken water jug; a table; fruit; a blind giant; a battle axe; a magic coin with only one side.