Yay, it’s the weekend!
Prompt Type: Music Prompt
Prompt:
Music is “As I Lay Me Down” by Sophie B. Hawkins. Video courtesy of YouTube.
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Prompt for March 7, 2014 – Day 66
Happy Friday!
Prompt Type: Character Development
Prompt: Think about your main character and what motivates them. Boil it down to one vice or virtue–love, greed, envy, fear, hope, etc.–that drives what they do.
Now change it up. How would your main character be different if envy motivated them? Write a character sketch or scene detailing how hope motivates the actions of your main character.
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Prompt for March 6, 2014 – Day 65
One more day after this and the work week’s over! We can all make it, right?
Prompt type: Opening line
Prompt: The ice wind rose and she shuddered, swallowing hard. “We’ll never make it. It’s too far.”
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Prompt for March 5, 2014 – Day 64
Wednesday! Halfway through the work week.
Forecast is snow today here. Heard a report that there’ll be ice in the Great Lakes until June. I think I’m strangely okay with this.
Prompt type: Music prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance. Video courtesy of YouTube.
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Prompt for March 4, 2014 – Day 63
I’m still trying to figure out where February went…
Prompt Type: Image prompt
Prompt:
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Prompt for March 3, 2014 – Day 62
First Monday of March — and it doesn’t look like winter’s loosening its grip on any of us yet.
Here’s a prompt to keep you busy if you’re stuck at home due to the weather today.
Prompt Type: Toolbox
Prompt: Come up with a character who might have the following array of items in a purse, backpack, their trunk, etc–then write a scene in which they use some (or all) of these items to save the day.
- Fishing line
- Two spools of fabric ribbon
- Bottle of soda
- A bag of carrots
- Three pairs of blue jeans
- A flare gun
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Prompt for March 2, 2014 – Day 61
Another weekend coming to a close. Happy Sunday, folks.
Prompt Type: Quotation
Prompt: Write a scene inspired by the following quote. It could be set in the time period when the quote was spoken, could involve the quote itself, or could simply be inspired by the theme of the quote.
We are not a family, we are a firm.
— George VI of England, quoted by A. B. Baxter in Destiny Called to Them (Oxford University Press, 1939)
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