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Two more days until the Opening Ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics. Totally excited.
Today’s prompt recalls the last Olympic Games – Summer in London 2012. Folks who watched the games and the ceremonies may recognize it.
Prompt Type: Music Prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Rule the World” by Take That. Video courtesy of YouTube. Footage is from the Closing Ceremonies of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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Happy Tuesday! We’ve had pretty wordy prompts for the past few days, so it’s time to change it up a little.
Prompt Type: Image
Prompt:
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And on to February. Congratulations, you’ve made it through the first month of prompts and emerged into the second.
Another character development prompt for today–hopefully you learned something new about your character back on Day 21 that you were able to use.
Prompt Type: Character development
Prompt: Pick one of your secondary characters that’s important to your main character. Just like you did for your main character, imagine what this character was doing ten years ago. Write a scene set in that time period and see where it takes you.
When I did this with General Jackson Hunter from the Epsilon universe, I realized that he was a lot more important to Aaron Taylor than Aaron realized. You may end up realizing the same thing.
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Last day of January, last prompt of the first month and it’s a new prompt type. Make it count!
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.
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
— Winston Churchill
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Happy Birthday to my awesome father, who’s been supportive of my goals as a writer but making sure that I’ve still got my feet planted firmly in reality while I’ve been doing it.
One day left in the work week, guys, you can do it!
Prompt Type: Music Prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Iridescent” by Linkin Park. Video courtesy of YouTube.
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Almost at the end of January now, and in a few more days it’ll be one month down, 11 to go.
Another image prompt today, another picture I took on a lovely trip east to a place I’d go back to again if I had a chance to explore more of the city and take more pictures.
Prompt Type: Image prompt
Prompt:
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Oh Mondays. I’m not a fan, are you?
Another day, another prompt! More music today.
Prompt type: Music prompt
Prompt:
Music is “How to Save a Life” by The Fray. Video courtesy of YouTube.
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