A year of writing prompts: 17 October

How to use these prompts

What effect might this lightning strike have?
Bringing a Frankenstein style monster to life?
Destroying something?
Or simply scaring people?

Prompts

1. It's Big Yellow Hat Day. Write a story which features a big yellow hat.
2. It's also National Day of Prayer. Try writing a prayer, and/or a story about someone who prays - to any god or goddess you choose. Is the prayer answered?
3. "The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones." Robert Jordan
4. National Shut-In Visitation Day is around now. Your character volunteers to visit a housebound person - and gets more than they bargained for.
5. In 2011, Richard Branson opened the world's first commercial spaceport in New Mexico in anticipation of commercial flights into space. Your story is set in a spaceport. Your character arrives to check in for their flight. What happens next?

Character Names

Saini, Hedwig, Chastity, Nia, Warren, Antonia, Annette

Character Traits

• Have a sturdy physique and keen senses of sight and hearing.
• Tend to be emotional and sometimes over-sensitive.
• Always keenly aware of what is going on around them.
• Likely to be successful in business but they may opt to work for charities supporting unpopular causes, or in the arts.
• Patriotic, with the courage to stand up for their rights but are usually peaceful.
• Good leaders and excellent champions for unpopular causes.
• Friendly and sociable with a love of fun and social games. Enjoy mental intrigue.
• Enjoy fast cars and noisy crowds.
• They may be tempted to test fate at times but are usually lucky.
• In romance they easily become infatuated. However, their partner may struggle to keep up with their wide range of interests.
• May have a lot of children.
• Diplomatic and capable of seeing different points of view.
• Kind and generous.
• May experience financial losses.
• Possibility of extreme mental illness, such as schizophrenia.

Possible Themes

The changeableness of nature.

An artist's relationship with his/her muse.

Diplomacy.

Victory.

Objects

An eagle; a dove; a heron; a knight; a lion; a stick; a newly elected MP; a gypsy caravan; a campfire; a movie star; a grand staircase.