Sunday 12 May 2019

A Year of writing prompts: 13 May

How to use these prompts

Which of these people is the hero and which is the villain?
Or is it a tiff between two people on the same side?
Who are the people hiding behind the trees?



Prompts

  1. It's Frog Jumping Day. Write a tale featuring a frog.
  2. "Just because one cannot see, doesn't mean he has no vision." Stevie Wonder.
  3. According to folklore, a farmer who sheers his sheep before today cares more about selling wool than caring for the sheep. Write about a business owner who is damaging his assets in the name of profit.
  4. "I just called to say I love you."
  5. It's Leprechaun day. Write a magical tale involving leprechauns and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Character Names
Flora, Irene, Irena, Ira, Fatima, Robert, Nina


Character Traits
  • Optimistic people who have great faith in themselves.
  • Have big, generous hearts, but lack the intellectual capacity to avoid being taken in by fraudsters.
  • Enthusiastic and energetic. Reformers who will try to inspire others, but may not always succeed.
  • Seek to understand life.
  • There may be something unique about them - a quality, a disability or abnormal trait.
  • Suffer from constraints or inhibitions which can even be unbearable at times.
  • Can be sarcastic.
  • Medicine, projecting and the arts are careers they may be attracted to.
  • May suffer from rheumatism.
  • May drink too much.
  • Career tends to be luckier for them than romance.
  • Danger from falls, either physical falls or falls from grace.
  • Spiritually intuitive.
  • Tendency to scatter pearls of wisdom and insight indiscriminately, hoping some will reach appreciative ears.

Possible Themes
Distinguishing real from false.
Treasure; crystals, jewels.
Enchanting beauty.
Practical values of everyday living.


Objects

A jeweller's shop; a furnace; a dragon; black rain; an orange salamander.




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