A year of writing prompts: 24 November

How to use these prompts

Write about the play or show this person is appearing in.
Does everything go to plan, or is it another Play That Goes Wrong?

Prompts

1. It's How to Win Friends and Influence People Day. Write about the lengths your character goes to in order to do this.
2. It's D.B. Cooper Day. He hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted out of the plane when he'd been given the ransom money. No-one knows what happened to him after that. There were hundreds of leads, none conclusive. What do you think happened to him? Where did he go and how did he avoid getting caught?
3. "Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it." Baruch Spinoza
4. There are numerous occasions during the year when women can divine who their future husband is. Today is St Catherine's Eve, when the boys get the chance to divine who their future wives will be. Write about a young man appealing to the saint to show him his future lover. Is he pleased with her answer?
5. Write a story about a secret garden.

Character Names

Emelie, Emma, Vilibert, Viola, Aurora, Jan, Flora, Gudrun

Character Traits

• Intelligent, logical and scientific. Enjoy learning and working with facts.
• Conservative and unassuming.
• Hair will either be fine and beautiful or stiff and coarse, or its growth may be limited in some way.
• Gift for speech and languages.
• Can be blunt or rude.
• May reach some level of superiority in their field but in general tend to remain subordinate and never completely independent.
• Ventures they start for themselves are unlikely to succeed.
• Work best as part of a group contributing to a larger project.
• Things they achieve benefit others more than them, even when they get recognition for it.
• Possibly too sympathetic and yielding to those beneath them.
• Romance often leads to trouble.
• May suffer from anxiety.
• May work as a linguist or translator, analyst or researcher.

Possible Themes

Rules, sportsmanship.

Teamwork and group morale.

Games that go on for days.

Valour.

Servitude.

Objects

A game of cricket; an ox with three horns; a windmill; a mirror; a pair of winged shoes; a sports coach.