A year of writing prompts: 25 July

How to use these prompts

What lengths do these women go to in order to win the man?
Which (if any) of them will he choose?

Prompts

1. In 1909 the French aviator Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly across the English Channel. Write a story about a Channel Crossing. Whether it is a pioneering flight or a trip across in a ferry or any other type of crossing is up to you.
2. Talk in an Elevator Day is celebrated around this time. Write about a conversation some people have in a lift.
3. It's Act Like a Caveman Day. Write a story set in the time of cave dwellers.
4. An old superstition says that chicory can grant a person the powers of invisibility and the ability to open locked chests. However, if you speak during the process you die. Your character is making use of this folklore. What happens?
5. "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." Eric Hoffer

Character Names

Jacob, Christopher, Marika, Santiago, Kobe, Jackson, James, Jamie, Jim, Jimmy, Ophelia, Susan, Susannah

Character Traits

• Intelligent; quick learners.
• Have organising ability and leadership qualities. Precise and accurate.
• Able to understand things which seem complicated to others and to make ordinary things seem new and interesting.
• Enthusiastic and open to new ideas.
• May be immature or child like in attitude.
• By refusing to conform to tradition/establishment they can produce truly original work.
• May lack compassion or intuition.
• Need validation of their ideas and discoveries from others.
• Tend to be unreliable, including in marriage.
• Proud of their family and lineage.
• Spiritually powerful with an interest in the occult. This will attract admirers.
• Like their food. Enjoy pageantry and displays.
• Hyperactive and fascinated by the ins and outs of everything.
• Passionate and sensuous.
• Follow trends and may be sensitive about their looks.
• May follow a career in religion or politics, theatre or writing. Plastic surgery or hairdressing could also attract them.
• May suffer ordeals caused by twists of fate. May suffer a mid-life crisis.

Possible Themes

The link between men and gods.

Changing appearances; plastic surgery, hair and hairstyles.

Leadership.

Mystery.

Objects

A stool; a ladder; a lion cub; a veiled statue; a rickshaw.