A year of writing prompts: 15 November

How to use these prompts

Time for a superhero fight!
What are they fighting about?
Do the others join in?
Who wins?

Prompts

1. Around about now, Beaujolais Nouveau is released, and the race is on to get the wine shipped all over the world. In days gone by there would be a race to be the first to get it to Paris by means of unusual forms of transport - a hot air balloon, or on the back of an elephant. Concorde was used as well. Write about a race between two companies (or vineyards if you choose to stick with the wine theme) who are involved in a race to be first to get their product to market.
2. It's National Adoption Day. Write about a child who is adopted. Perhaps they find it hard to settle in their new family at first. Or perhaps they've grown up believing they were the biological child of their parents and find out as a teenager or as an adult that they were adopted. How does the discovery affect their life and relationships with family members - including siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles etc.?
3. "In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom." JG Ballard
4. "If I do not return by the fifteenth of November, you will come into possession of my things." Honore de Balzac. Someone has spoken, written or recorded these same words for your character. The person has not returned. What does your character come into possession of, and what do they do with it?
5. A Frosty Morning.

Character Names

Leopold, Leo, Janita, Albert, Shirley, Delaney, Katja, Nadia

Character Traits

• More interested in intellectual, artistic or religious pursuits than in material things.
• Like to work somewhere secluded or remote.
• Care little for public opinion and be shy of publicity.
• May actually hate people, the public - but could equally be at the other extreme and enjoy working with lots of others.
• Determined, intense, single-minded; Penetrating perception.
• Much creative energy, especially in art and music.
• Their life plans, especially as they grow older, may be unusual.
  
• Can be caustic and satirical.
• Do not trust the establishment.
• Tend to disregard personal danger.
• May be troubled as children, powerful as parents.
• Challenged to help those in need by woes in their own lives.
• May drink too much. Danger of broken bones.
• There may be times in their life when they are unable to speak.
• Possible that at some stage they will be caught up in an attack or invasion.

Possible Themes

Mission, duty and purpose.

Migration.

Settling in to a new environment.

Territory, boundaries.

Objects

A small chapel; a huntsman's bag; a mole; a singing bird; a lion; a she-wolf; a Native American camp.