Friday 20 September 2019

A Year of Writing Prompts: 24 September

How to use these prompts

Who is this man?
Are his companions dogs or wolves?
What adventures might they have together?



Prompts

  1. Native American Day is celebrated around now. Write a story featuring Native Americans.
  2. Another day celebrated around now is International Rabbit Day. Pen a tale about a rabbit.
  3. "The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." Horace Walpole
  4. The dawn of a new day reveals everything changed.
  5. In 1997 a Belfast man handed himself in to police after watching himself robbing a garage on CCTV footage broadcast on television. He'd committed the crime while drunk and had no recollection of it. Your character got so drunk one night that they remember nothing that they did that night. Later, they are presented with evidence that they did something with far-ranging consequences, and/or something completely out of character.


Character Names
Gerhard, Gerard, Theodore, McKenna, Demetrius, Gellert, Mercedes


Character Traits
  • Highly intelligent but physically weak.
  • Have a good deal of curiosity but are not deep thinkers and lack concentration.
  • Can be irresponsible and lack awareness.
  • Talkative.
  • May travel or be involved in communications. Could gain fame as the representative of a "happening" thing.
  • Medicine or the service industry are likely careers.
  • Will be deprived of freedom at some point in their lives, or estranged from their people, or be out of work.
  • Capable of determination and precision.
  • Can see both sides of a question but will stick to their convictions.
  • Gifted in art or science, but their talent may not be recognised.
  • Love affairs can lead to embarrassment, especially if occult practices are involved.
  • Occult or psychic activity is dangerous for them in any case.
  • May live in the past or the future and be great fans of historical or science fiction.
  • Usually sympathetic, honest and industrious but at their worst can be self-centred, hard hearted and misanthropic.
  • May resist change, or push for change for the sake of change.

Possible Themes
Trials and obstacles.
Turning points. Make or break situations.
Self discovery.
Fresh starts.


Objects

A person tied up in chains; an inaccurate, imaginative map of the world; a bed; dawn.

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