A year of Writing Prompts: 17 June

How to use these prompts

A first date?
Or is one half of  the couple about to propose?
Or end the relationship?

Prompts

1. "Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling?" MC Escher
2. It's Accident Day. Write a story which features an accident.
3. Alfred Hitchcock's film Blackmail premièred in 1929. Write a story in which one character blackmails another.
4. The oldest identical twin sisters celebrated their 104th birthday in 1984. Write a story about a pair of identical twins who have reached a grand old age.
5. Peter Didsbury's poem, the 17th of June, begins "The day recounts itself backwards". Write about a day which is in some way back to front.

Character Names

Adolf, Laura, Arthur, Junior, Dixie, Innocent, Harvey, Manuel, Dawn, Alba

Character Traits

• Quarrelsome, stubborn and jealous. This can lead to alienation of people around them, and sometimes their downfall.
• Quick thinkers who enjoy fine arts.
• Creative with a vivid inner mental life.
• Responsible and trustworthy.
• Conventional in outlook, possibly because they dislike being alone.
• Hold traditional beliefs and defend them strongly without necessarily thinking them through.
• Often convinced they are right without understanding the issues.
• Suckers for a sob story and can fall prey to schemers.
• May enjoy dancing as a hobby and possibly as a career.
• Melancholy and set in their ways.
• Could end up working within a large organisation and doing fairly well.
• May be affected by infertility or stunted growth.
• Danger of suicide.
• Coldness or barrenness could feature in their lives in some way.
• Speculation tends to be unlucky for them.

Possible Themes

Coldness.

Age.

One's place in the cosmos.

Hibernation.

Innovation; national and political ventures.

Beauty, cleansing, protection.

Objects

Winter frost; a marketplace; two dogs fighting; an ancient temple in a cave.