A Year of Writing Prompts: 17 May

How to use these prompts

Who or what is the creature apparently praying?
Who is creeping up behind them and why?
What are the symbols around the arches?
Where are they?

Prompts

1. "We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up." Sugar Ray Leonard
2. In 1938, the first panel quiz show, Information Please, was broadcast on radio. Write about a person, or a team, taking part in a quiz show.
3. The 10cc song "I'm not in Love" was released on this date in 1975. Give the song a listen if you have a chance. If not, basically, it's about a guy who is trying to convince himself he doesn't still love the woman who dumped him. Write about a character who is going through a similar process.
4. According to tradition, the great flood took place on this date in 2344BC. Write a piece about life on board Noah's Ark, from the point of view of any of its passengers, human or animal.
5. In 1991, a woman was evicted from a hotel room in California. She left 85 cats behind her in the room. Tell her story.

Character Names

Annetta, Malia, Herbert, Gail, Basil, Brent, Eloise, Veronica, Pascale, Gisele, Nora, Rebecca

Character Traits

• May start life in a poor or low status family, but make a major discovery or invent something and be richly rewarded.
• Thrifty by nature, so rich or poor, their lifestyle isn't likely to be significantly different.
• May have an interest in magic or the occult. This could include black magic and there may be a hunger for occult power.
• Efficient and hard working.
• Possibly eccentric.
• Talented, but easily sidetracked by earthly passions or low company.
• Will have variable luck in love, but will make a good choice in the end as to who they marry.
• Eloquent.
• May end up in a position where they lead or educate others, but there are dangers in sharing their insights with people who don't understand them.
• They may go into an unusual profession, and/or one dealing with metal.
• Could lose their head (literally)
• May be affected by mob violence.
  

Possible Themes

Dignity in displaced circumstances.

Industry, handicrafts, markets and stalls.

Fighting for social justice.

Objects

Beads and trinkets; a wheat field; a dark cloud; hedges sculpted into animal forms.