Monday 8 July 2019

A year of writing prompts: 9 July

How to use these prompts

Who is this?
Who is he shooting at?
Tell his story.


Prompts

  1. If you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.” Dorothy Thompson
  2. It's Tom Hank's birthday. Write a story based around a Tom Hanks film.
  3. It's Senior Race Day. A group of elderly people decide to have a race.
  4. 10 Things I Hate About You.
  5. In 1999 a study found the most dangerous occupation in therms of violence at work was a taxi driver. Write about a taxi driver who witnesses a crime.

Character Names
Lucretia, Veronica, Lou, Louie, Louis, Louise, Luella, Luis, Geoffrey, Jeff, Zenon

Character Traits
  • Nervous in temperament and tend to be suspicious. Not gullible or superstitious.
  • Harsh, jealous, always ready to retaliate.
  • Students of human nature.
  • Intelligent and versatile.
  • Love to travel and make new discoveries. May become explorers, researchers or pioneers.
  • Energetic with executive ability – make good leaders and reformers. Have ideas on the social distribution and organisation of money and resources. May work in business or politics.
  • Tendency to be melancholic.
  • May be inflexible and rigid, disliking progress and change.
  • Self-possessed.
  • Honest and determined.
  • Find it easy to become detached from anything which does not serve them.
  • Sometimes indiscreet.
  • Can be excessively compassionate and show generosity to people who don't deserve it.
  • May be arrogant.
  • May be affected by scheming and dishonesty.

Possible Themes
Duty.
Organic growth and the determination of living things to push forward.
Evolution of culture towards its ideals.
Germination.
Genetic engineering.
The tree of knowledge.


Objects
A seed; lightning; a spinning wheel; a portrait; a train of camels; a tree stump.







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