Fifteen days down, hundreds to go. Another photo prompt for you today, let’s see what you can do!
Prompt Type: Image
Prompt:
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Almost halfway through the first month of the year! Today’s prompt is another using Kim Freimoeller’s Inspiration Dice.
Prompt type: Genre, setting, character, and plot seed
Prompt: A fantasy romance where an adult female hero willingly recovers from an ambush to prove herself.
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I’ll admit it, there’s been a lot of Imagine Dragons on my playlists lately, but there’s just something about their music…
Prompt Type: Music prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Demons” by Imagine Dragons; video courtesy of YouTube.
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Happy Sunday, folks! A new type of prompt today.
Prompt type: Rewrite a scene from a historical document
Prompt: Reimagine the scene below however you’d like.
He walked for five miles away from Dorchester
And came to a hilltop very high and beautiful,
Where he fell on his knees in prayer calling continually upon God
For Him to avenge him on the accursed people
Who had dishonored him with their harmful actions.
Our Lord heard his voice reaching into heaven
And set down his vengeance on the wretched people
Who had hung sting-ray tails on to the clerics:
Those tails were stuck on to them, and for this they can be derided;
All that tribe were disgraced: they all had little muggles,
And in every household people called them ‘mugglings,’
And every gentleman says foul things about them…
Selection is from Lawman’s Brut, translated by Rosamund Allen. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
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Another weekend underway! Here’s your prompt for your Saturday, which I hope you will be spending doing something other than preparing for a major snowstorm (if you live in the Midwest, you’ll know what I’m referring to regarding last Saturday!).
Prompt type: Music prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Iron” by Woodkid; video courtesy of YouTube.
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Happy Friday! Here’s a prompt to help you celebrate the coming weekend.
Prompt type: Opening line
Prompt:
“You will embrace your destiny,” he said firmly, “or you will simply die trying.”
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If you’ve been with me for all nine days, thank you! If you’ve just discovered the prompts, feel free to scroll back through the earlier prompts and see what if anything wonderful sparks.
Today is another prompt using Kim Freimoeller’s Inspiration Dice.
Prompt type: Genre, setting, character, and plot seed
Prompt: An adventure story where a trickster is redeemed by loss.
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