A year of writing prompts: 25 August

How to use these prompts

Who is staying in this hotel room?
What conversations might they have as they eat breakfast on the balcony?

Prompts

1. It's National Second Hand Wardrobe Day. Your character buys an old wardrobe from a charity shop. When they get it home and open it, they get a big surprise.
2. "One must have chaos within oneself if one is to give birth to a dancing star." Friedrich Nietsche
3. In 1999 a coven of witches held a ceremony to protest against the positioning of a 53ft telephone mast. Write about witches and or wizards getting involved with issues in the modern world.
4. Around now is National Neighbourhood Day, a day for holding a block party with your neighbours. Write a story which takes place at a block or street party.
5. The Wedding of the Giants.

Character Names

Louisa, Patricia, Ludwig, Pearl, Perry, Louis, Louise

Character Traits

• Particular fondness for justice and indignant at breaches of it. Will defend and help the weak.
• Value truth and beauty and dislike negativity.
• Appreciate fine workmanship and high quality.
• Have an insight into natural laws.
• May have talents as a medium.
• Kind and gifted with a sunny nature yet also have a cold, logical mind.
• Hard workers with endurance and cool courage.
• Generous, and want to use their resources in the best possible way.
• Independent and self-sufficient.
• Modern, possibly peculiar, outlook. Value youth and dislike stodgy social rules and restrictions.
• Faithful to their partners, but can be a sexual misfit.
• Sensible and prudent.
• Careers they may be drawn to are scientific research, particularly in the field of agriculture or anything to do with the soil; writer (most likely about science or the mystical, perhaps poetry or drama); philosophy, chemistry and food science. They may also be drawn to counselling or social work.
• Tendency towards a victim mentality.

Possible Themes

Insight.

Forethought.

Parallel worlds and the passages between them.

Being saved or finding a solution in the nick of time.

Objects

Two guardian angels; a laboratory; wheat; a ledger; an elephant with a castle on his back; a spinning wheel.