A year of writing prompts: 3 December

How to use these prompts

Does this nervous superhero learn to fly?
Who else is at the Superhero Academy?
What other lessons might they do?

Prompts

1. It's Telescope Day. Your character has a telescope. Whether they use it to look at the stars, and make a surprising or significant discovery, or if they use it to spy on their neighbours is up to you.
2. It's Disability Day, a UN day to promote understanding of disability. Your character has a disability - what it is is up to you - describe their day. How does their disability affect what they can and can't do? Perhaps they make a protest about how businesses treat people with their particular disability. It may be their disability even gives them some advantage over others, for example, a blind person wouldn't be affected by a power cut and all the lights going out.
3. "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Sir Rowland Hill, who invented the postage stamp, was born in 1795. Write a story featuring a postage stamp, or stamps. Your character may be a stamp collector, a post office worker or a person who needs a stamp to post an important letter.
5. Bartender appreciation day is celebrated around now. Your character is a bartender. Write about their day. Do they have a conversation with a customer which changes one or both of their lives? Do they have to deal with customers' bad behaviour? Or even a natural disaster like a storm, which means everyone is stranded in the bar overnight?

Character Names

Olivia, Daile, Raita, Luther, Graham, Ora, Lydia, Carola, Oldrich

Character Traits

• Intelligent and highly imaginative. Grasp concepts quickly. Good with numbers.
• Danger of being so involved in study they get cut off from the world.
• Have excellent memories.
• Interested in science, especially astronomy; not so much in commerce.
• May be intuitive with a clear insight - possibly even have clairvoyant gifts.
• Indecisive when it comes to large decisions like career choice or who to marry.
• Tend to be successful early in life, but the success doesn't always last. This may be because, even though they work hard to get to the top, they slack off when they get there.
• Optimists who take life as it comes.
• Lovers of nature and beauty.
• Can be foolhardy and irresponsible.
• Ambivalent about change.
• Danger from blizzards and cold.
• Gambling or laziness could also be their downfall.
  

Possible Themes

Dumbness.

Shadows.

Hidden assumptions.

Predictions.

Objects

A groundhog; piles of documents and books; a large telescope; an easel; an arrow in flight.