A Year of Writing Prompts: March 15

How to use these prompts

Write about the occupant of this cell.
What was their crime? Or are they innocent?
How are they coping with being inside?
Do they get on with the prison officers/other inmates?

Prompts

1. In 1971, the first internet chat rooms appeared. Write a story featuring a chat room, and what happens when two or more of the participants decide to met up in real life.
2. In 1969, Third division Swindon Town beat Arsenal 3-1 in the League Cup Final. Write a story in which a person, a team, an army, an animal, or whatever you like, beats the odds and wins.
3. It's the Ides of March. Write a story about someone who is, literally or figuratively, stabbed in the back.
4. It's also International Boss's Day Off, based on the idea that leaders should stay well out of the way on the Ides of March. Write about a boss who takes a rare day off. What does he or she do? What do his or her employees do?
5. "People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." Rebecca West

Character Names

Ida, Kristof, Ulrika, Rufus, Thelma, Louise, Svetlana, Christopher, Christel

Character Traits

• May suffer sudden calamities but these ordeals serve to increase their self confidence, faith and resilience and spur them on to greater achievements.
• Sincere, free and easy with other people.
• Inclined to gossip - love a good scandal.
• Can be an agitator or revolutionist.
• Good organising abilities; enterprising; do well in business and academic pursuits.
• Make many friends but also many enemies.
• Likely to be psychic, with unseen playmates as children.
• May find it hard to establish their identity and place in the world.
• Passionate and possibly promiscuous.
• Capable of hard work and long hours.
• A clear, objective intelligence with a strong sense of justice.
• May be attracted to psychology as a career.
• Health issues might include kidney or bladder problems. Bed wetting as a child is possible.
• May consider suicide at some point in their life.
• Danger of spirit possession.
• Need to beware of taking good fortune for granted.
• May become obsessed with something.

Possible Themes

Spiritual quest.

Exposing hidden truths.

Nature's bounty; Earth magic.

Objects

A door; a red flag; an earthquake; a sand painting; a melon patch.