A year of writing prompts: 25 May

How to use these prompts

Who is this?
What is he doing and why?
Tell his story.

Prompts

1. Write a story which begins with "It was a dark and stormy night..."
2. "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. It's National Missing Children's Day in the US. Write a story about a missing child.
4. Towel Day is a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams. Pen a tale featuring a towel.
5. In 1840 the first drama school opened in Britain. Write a story set in a drama school.

Character Names

Viola, Morgan, Urban, Gregory, Duncan, Madeline, Ursula

Character Traits

• Perceptive and intelligent.
• Dignified and of noble bearing - command the respect of others.
• Friendly and hospitable.
• Likely to be successful both in their careers and their marriages.
• Spiritually minded, sensitive to their environment. Dislike greed and materialism.
• May prefer to make their living through crafty and underhand means than through hard work.
• Devoted to their families.
• Help from high places will serve their interests.
• May attain a political appointment which involves confidentiality.
• Possible careers are detective, surgeon, photographer, artist, optician, music, gunsmith or finance. They do especially well at jobs requiring precision such as science, painting miniatures or engraving.
• May suffer from anxiety.
• Lung problems are possible.
• May find themselves deprived of liberty.
• Danger of becoming lonely and obsessed.
• Practical and conscientious.

Possible Themes

Dexterity.

Orderliness.

Protection; tapping into old protective resources.

Honouring the divine in everyday things.

The spirit of special occasions.

Objects

Holly and mistletoe; an island just visible off the coast; a Roman feast.