Write a scene inspired by the lines above.
365 Days of Prompts – January 18
365 Days of Prompts – January 9
Write a scene using the line “The snow blasted the breath from my lungs.”
Prompt for March 17, 2014 – Day 76
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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 as needed.
So I am first of all a simple country person, a refugee, and unlearned. I do not know how to provide for the future. But this I know for certain, that before I was brought low, I was like a stone lying deep in the mud. Then he who is powerful came and in his mercy pulled me out, and lifted me up and placed me on the very top of the wall. That is why I must shout aloud in return to the Lord for such great good deeds of his, here and now and forever, which the human mind cannot measure.
Passage from Saint Patrick’s Confessio, extracted from http://www.confessio.ie/etexts/confessio_english#01
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Prompt for March 10, 2014 – Day 69
Tomorrow’s my niece’s two month birthday! (That’s better than happy Monday, don’t you think?)
Slightly new prompt type today. I found this little bit of something floating around my desktop on Saturday and decided to share it. See what you can do!
Prompt Type: Craft a Scene
Prompt: Using the scenario below, craft a scene–or a whole story, novel, or whatnot.
You’re awoken from your midnight sleep in your favorite chair to your dog barking wildly in the living room. Pulling her aside, you look out the window, only to see a face staring right back at you. Whose is it? Why are they there?
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Prompt for January 23, 2014 – Day 23
I don’t know about all of you, but I spent a lot of time in high school and college being exposed to historical documents, both in their original languages and in translation. One of the documents that I spent a lot of time with during both of those periods of my life is where today’s prompt comes from.
Prompt Type: Craft a scene
Prompt: Recreate the passage below in a new context–or in the same context, with characters imagined into the scene. Feel free to modify any gender, terminology, or name as needed.
The next day, early in the morning, he sent both foot-soldiers and horse in three divisions on an expedition to pursue those who had fled. These having advanced a little way, when already the rear [of the enemy] was in sight, some horse came to Caesar from Quintus Atrius, to report that the preceding night, a very great storm having arisen, almost all the ships were dashed to pieces and cast upon the shore, because neither the anchors and cables could resist, nor could the sailors and pilots sustain the violence of the storm; and thus great damage was received by that collision of the ships.
Text is from Caesar’s Gallic Wars, translation provided by The Internet Classics Archive, http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
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Prompt for January 5, 2014 – Day 5
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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