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Prompts
- Today is Look in the Back of Your Refrigerator Day, or Haunted Refrigerator Night. It advocates looking to see what is lurking in the back of your fridge the night before Halloween. Your character follows this advice. What do they find?
- It was this date in 1938 when a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds caused widespread panic in the US when people tuning in part way through the broadcast thought it was real. Write a story in which characters hear this, or a similar fictional radio or TV programme and believe it is real. What do they do?
- It's Create a Great Funeral Day. Write about a funeral. Whose funeral is it? Who shows up? What music/readings are chosen? Is it a burial or a cremation? Does anything unusual happen?
- "The future is not what it used to be." Paul Valery
- Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter born this date in 1939 once commented that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. Whether you were there or not, write a story set in the 1960s. You might want to include the Beatles, the Kennedy Assassination, the Moon landings, drug /hippy culture or anything else you might remember or have been told about.
Character
Names
Alphonse,
Nadine, Ulla, Simon, Simone, Herbert, Zenobia, Elsa, Elsie
Character
Traits
- Have progressive or unorthodox ideas about marriage and family. May be drawn to communal living.
- Work well in groups, but can still manage to avoid commitment or obligation.
- Has many friends; companionship is important but they can be somewhat reclusive at heart.
- Affectionate but fickle in love.
- Can be silent and secretive, with a fondness for secret studies. Can be sarcastic and critical.
- Capable of playing a role for both good and evil reasons.
- Can be deceptive, but not always for malicious reasons. Often it is playful, about keeping people guessing.
- Intuitive, mathematical mind. May make significant discoveries.
- Spend money as fast as they make it.
- Loyal and respectful of family backgrounds, but can also be rebellious and stretch rules.
- Design and manufacturing of costumes may be a career they are drawn to; or acting, teaching - especially maths or science, troubleshooting in business.
- Tendency towards misfortune. May drink too much.
-
Tend
to live in the past.
- Need to beware of gossip.
Possible
Themes
The ultimate
challenge.
Facing Death.
Past life connections.
Reunions and
memories.
Objects
A mask; a compass; a spinning star; a wart on someone's nose; a diamond.
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