Friday 20 September 2019

A year of writing prompts: 23 September

How to use these prompts

What might the child be looking at on the roof?



Prompts

  1. In 1955, James Dean met Alec Guinness and showed him his Porsche Spyder. Guinness had a bad feeling about the car, and said, "If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week." Seven days later, Dean died in a crash in that very car. Write a story in which someone says something which proves eerily prophetic.
  2. It's National Multiple Wives Day, and Proposal Day. Your character is either a bigamist with several wives, or a man (or, indeed, woman) who has married several times. He or she is planning to pop the question to his or her next spouse.
  3. "Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other." Walter Lippman
  4. Breaking Free.
  5. Typhoid Mary was born in 1869, famous for being a carrier of typhoid, passing it on to 51 people of whom three died. Your character is a type of "Typhoid Mary" who unwittingly (or not) causes the deaths of people they come into contact with while not being affected themselves.


Character Names
Bertha, Vanda, Linas, Santos, Tiara, Tea


Character Traits
  • Intelligent people who want to solve the mysteries of the universe. May be drawn to a career in scientific research.

  • Kind and generous.
  • Artistic talent, especially for music.
  • Will produce beautiful artistic works.
  • Appreciate nature.
  • Refined, delicate and insightful, possibly psychic.
  • Their good intentions are sometimes misunderstood.
  • Tend towards melancholy.
  • Sensitive - feel things keenly.
  • May turn to God when disappointed in human nature. They may go as far as joining a religious community. The may even be a religious fanatic.
  • High moral values and strong convictions.
  • May be patriotic.
  • Can be otherworldly and impractical.
  • Risky erotic attractions may be their downfall.

Possible Themes
Knowledge and foresight. Visions for the future.
Vortexes.
Shipwrecks.
UFOs and aliens.


Objects

An altar; incense; a violin; a gold covered book; a snake; a whirlpool; a beautiful siren.

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