A year of writing prompts: 8 May

How to use these prompts

Write a story about this troupe of acrobats.
Is this a world record attempt?
What would happen if something went wrong?
How well do the performers get along with each other?

Prompts

1. As it's World Red Cross Day and Student Nurses Day, write a story with a medical theme.
2. It's VE Day, the day the second world war ended in Europe. Write about how someone celebrates the end of the war.
3. "Ninety percent of everything is crud." Theodore Sturgeon
4. It's David Attenborough's birthday. Write a story which features nature, in whatever form you wish.
5. National Third Shift Worker's Day is celebrated around this time. Write a story featuring a character working a night shift.

Character Names

Stanislaus, Stephania, Levi, Lewis, Kiana, Victor, Ingrid

Character Traits

• Quarrelsome, touchy, quick to anger and take offence.
• Creative and imaginative.
• May be tall.
• Tends to be a bit of a show off, likes to be heard.
• Charitable and sympathetic.
• May be interested in occult or medical literature.
• Enjoy nature, good food and drink.
• Likes to spend money on nice things, especially collectibles.
• Concerned about the future.
• Can be scattered and restless. Can be childish and easily influenced.
• Their relationships are often complex.
• Stubborn people who don't give up easily.
• Any career connected with sound or vibration may attract them. Singer or musician, for example.
• Could also seek a career in other arts like poetry or painting.
• May act as a spokesperson for a popular cause.
• May suffer from dissatisfaction or depression.
• Danger of severe injury or even death if they get involved in duels or brawls.
• Tend to hang on to outmoded things.

Possible Themes

Madness and impulses.

Power.

Memories; past life regression.

Domestic chores.

Renewal.

Objects

A bag; two bulls; two goats; a black knight and a white knight; a trumpet; a political banner.