A year of Writing prompts: 27 August

How to use these prompts

Describe an encounter on the steps of this building.
It can take place in modern times or at any period in history.

Prompts

1. According to a survey, today is the most likely day for couples to argue. Write about a couple having an argument.
2. In the French Revolutionary Calendar, today is the Day of the Ladder. Write a story featuring a ladder.
3. "The house is a machine for living in." Le Corbusier
4. It's Be Kind to Humankind Week. Write about an act of kindness.
5. On this date in 1965, the Beatles met Elvis Presley. Both parties were awed by each other. Your characters are two mega-famous people, real or imaginary, who meet for the first time.

Character Names

Caspar, Sylvia, Wade, Joseph, Monica, Rolf, Rudolph

Character Traits

• It's important to them to do things right from start to finish.
• Strict observers of daily routines.
• Apt to experience forebodings about things.
• Always ready to leap into action when duty calls.
• Intelligent and hard workers although not especially ambitious. Work especially hard in connection with the welfare of others. When they see a need, they fill it.
• Possible career choices are medicine, functional architecture, construction and repair or surveying.
• May have a gift as a spiritual healer or medium.
• May be poor in later life.
• Lovers of quaint and picturesque art, and old world lore.
• Droll and mischievous outlook.
• Impatient and dislike disorder. Like things to be functional.
• Fond of the outdoors and natural sciences.
• Gentle and sensitive.
• May suffer from asthma.
• Possibility of delusions or schizophrenia.
• May lack perspective.

Possible Themes

Adventure and exploration.

Curiosity.

Danger.

Fairy tales.

Nature spirits.

Objects

A rescue worker checking his equipment; an eagle; a long straight road vanishing into the distance; a tapestry; a skull on a pole; a dark wood; a leprechaun.