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Prompt for January 17, 2014 – Day 17

It’s a Friday and another new prompt type for folks! This one is a new twist on using Kim Freimoeller’s Inspiration Dice.

Prompt type: Change it up

Prompt: Take a project you’ve already started but maybe gotten blocked on.  Make some changes and see where they take you.

  1. Add a flashback that helps your character understand something either about themselves or about the situation they’ve found themselves in.
  2. Have your characters hit a dead end — and then end up on the run

Got a suggestion for a prompt? Contact Erin at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for January 16, 2014 – Day 16

Happy Thursday–only two work days left in the week if you’re like me and have a MTWThF day job.

Today’s prompt is a new one, partially inspired by my dearly beloved sister-in-law Natalie, who we joke about wanting to be shipwrecked or otherwise trapped with simply due to what can be found in her purse.

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.

  1. Insulin
  2. Two pence, five pennies, a nickel, a pound sterling, and one gold dollar
  3. Dental floss
  4. Sugar-free mint gum
  5. A Swiss Army knife
  6. A cellular phone with 2% battery life left
  7. A D-cell battery

Got a suggestion for a prompt? Contact Erin at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for January 14, 2014 – Day 14

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.

Got a suggestion for a prompt? Contact Erin at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for January 13, 2014 – Day 13

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.

Got a suggestion for a prompt? Contact Erin at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for January 12, 2014 – Day 12

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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Prompt for January 11, 2014 – Day 11

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.

Got a suggestion for a prompt? Contact Erin at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.