official website of Erin M. Klitzke, historian and author of Awakenings and Epsilon: Broken Stars
Yay! We made it to Friday!
Today’s prompt is another using Kim Freimoeller’s Inspiration Dice.
Prompt type: Genre, setting, character, and plot seed
Prompt: A fiction piece (any genre) where an anti-hero learns with the help of an unexpected gift.
Got a suggestion for a prompt? Contact me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Thursday! One more day before the work week’s done.
Here’s your prompt for today to keep you busy while I fight to finish the main body of The Measure of Dreams.
Prompt Type: Music Prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Let it Go” from Disney’s Frozen. Yes, I am obsessed with this song like everyone else. Video courtesy of YouTube.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Happy Wednesday! Halfway through the work week for a lot of us.
Bringing back a prompt today that we haven’t seen since January. Hopefully, you’ll find it inspiring.
Prompt Type: Character Development
Prompt: Think about your antagonist/villain 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 villain be different if hope motivated them? Write a character sketch or scene detailing how hope motivates the actions of your antagonist/villain.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Back to the daily grind today. It almost doesn’t feel like reality except for the fact that sometimes it feels too much like reality.
Like I do every year around this time of year, I’ve begun thinking about going back to school for an MFA or maybe my Ph.D. This feeling will likely fade and then resurface again in September.
Here’s an opening line prompt to start your week with.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: It was all so incredibly vast and unfamiliar–the crowds rushing around him, the buildings looming. It was as if the entire world was in a hurry, trying not to be late for fear that the very foundations of their existence would crumble and the city would topple if they ran just an instant behind.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Last day of Desert Nights, Rising Stars 2014. Kind of makes me sad!
Music prompt today–one that reminds me a lot of Tim McConaway from the UNSETIC Files. I listened to it while walking back from Old Main at ASU to my hotel yesterday evening.
Prompt Type: Music Prompt
Prompt:
Music is “The Fighter” by The Fray. Video courtesy of YouTube.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Day two of Desert Nights, Rising Stars 2014 for me, and it’s an early day. Here’s a prompt to keep you busy!
Prompt type: Image
Prompt:
Got a suggestion for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Off to Arizona with me! Here’s a prompt to keep you busy.
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.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
–Lao Tzu
Got a suggestion for a prompt? Contact me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.