A year of writing prompts: 6 November

How to use these prompts

What is happening here?

Prompts

1. Love Your Lawyer Day is celebrated around now. Write a story featuring a lawyer.
2. It's Guinness World Record Day. Your character is attempting to get themselves into the record books. Do they achieve it? If not, why not? Aside from the pride and sense of achievement, does their attempt change their life in any way?
3. "There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad." James Jones
4. Other things celebrated on this date are saxophones, nachos, and basketball. Write a story featuring one or more of these things.
5. In 1967 the Beatles mixed their song, Magical Mystery Tour, at Abbey Road Studio. Send your characters on a magical mystery tour.

Character Names

Adolf, Leonard, Leon, Leo, Brian, Brianna, Bryant, Felix, Renata, Gustav

Character Traits

• Energetic and ambitious.
• Good organisers.
• Punctual, honest and accurate at work.
• Will be inclined towards creative arts, in particular music and entertainment, colour and vibration.
• May be a patron or philanthropist of the arts.
• Whatever field they choose to work in, they will give it their all.
• Will dedicate much energy to alleviating the suffering of others.
• Very attractive to the opposite sex and often relentlessly pursued by them. Being carried away by their passions is not unusual.
• Not courageous and will withdraw from any situation requiring courage in as dignified a manner as they can.
• Dislike mean, harsh people.
• Creative thinkers who are idealistic and progressive.
• Could have problems with gambling.
• Voyages can result in disaster.

Possible Themes

Colour.

Catastrophic events. 

Explosions and bombings.

Combining masculine and feminine energy.

Romance.

Music.

Objects

A jester; a beggar; a wolf; a field; a deer; a naked woman; a dagger with a jewelled hilt; a hermit; the dragon's cave; a miniature city under a glass dome.