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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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Another photo prompt today — maybe if you ask nicely, I’ll tell you where and when I took it.
Prompt type: Image
Prompt:
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Seven days down, 358 to go!
Prompt Type: Music Prompt
Prompt:
Music is “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons; video courtesy of YouTube.
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Hope you’ve been finding inspiration lately. On to the next prompt.
Prompt Type: Dialogue Only
Prompt: Craft the scene surrounding the dialogue below and see where it takes you!
“Why would your parents do something like that to you?”
“I don’t know. Maybe because they hate me. Why does it matter?”
“I don’t know. I guess it doesn’t, but–”
“Then why are we having this conversation?”
“I–”
“Right. Moving on.”
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Another day, another prompt! If you’ve missed any, feel free to scroll back and check them out, or hit this link to look at all of them at once.
Prompt type: Build a Scene
Prompt: Write a short piece about the events leading up to or occurring subsequent to passage below. Feel free to modify any gender or terminology (centurion, prefect, overseas, etc) as needed.
I implore your majesty not to allow me, an innocent man, to have been beaten with rods and, my lord, inasmuch as I was unable to complain to the prefect because he was detained by ill-health I have complained in in vain to the beneficiarius and the rest of the centurions of his unit. I accordingly implore your mercifulness not to allow me, a man from overseas and an innocent one, about whose good faith you may inquire, to have been bloodied by rods as if I had committed some crime.
Passage from Alan K. Bowman, Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier, New York: Routledge, 1994, p. 139.
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I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s prompt! Feel free to scroll back through the posts if you’ve missed one.
Prompt Type: Music prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Landing in London” by 3 Doors Down; video courtesy of YouTube.
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