Wednesday 4 December 2019

A year of writing prompts: 4 December

How to use these prompts

Your characters are on a road trip when they encounter this.
Where were they going?
What do they do next?



Prompts

  1. It's Santa's List Day. Santa reviews his "Naughty or Nice" list. He decides to give one naughty child a final chance to redeem him or herself before Christmas.
  2. It's National Dice Day. Write s story featuring dice. Perhaps your character has decided to spice up their life by making every decision that day based on a roll of dice. Or perhaps just one major life-changing decision. Alternatively, your characters are playing a game using dice.
  3. "I can't stop while there are lives to be saved." Edith Cavell
  4. A widow's past is brought to light.
  5. Today is sacred to the Greek Hero Hercules. Have a go at writing a new legend about a strong, courageous hero.


Character Names
Barbara, Barbra, Rodney, Bernard, Aira


Character Traits
  • Generous and helpful to others; champions of the poor.
  • Make good emotional connections with others.
  • Dislike boring respectability. Much prefer variety, sensation and change.
  • Talkative and inclined to gossip.
  • Intuitive, possibly to the extent of getting premonitions of the future.
  • More likely to cover the wealth of others than make it for themselves. In fact, they are unlikely to succeed in any career. Their plans and projects often fail in spite of their ambitions and lofty plans.
  • Attractive to the opposite sex, but lasting love eludes them.
  • Interested in spiritual philosophy.
  • Greatly influenced by impulses.
  • May have a fiery temper.
  • May gain fame or notoriety.
  • May get ripped off.
  • Danger from air pollution, including smoking, and drowning.



Possible Themes
Breathing.
Power and authority.
Opportunism.
Resilience.


Objects

A ship; seagulls; an empty chariot; broken toys; a dark tunnel; two angels, one light one dark.




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