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Competition begins in Sochi today, though the opening ceremonies are tomorrow. I’m rather excited–are you?
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: Less than a day ago, he’d been in the village, experiencing the crush of people and the thrill of all of it–all of that was a far cry from the pain of the here and now.
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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 Imbolc / Groundhog’s Day / Super Bowl Sunday for folks who care. I plan on getting some work done while I hang out with the family and watch the game (and the attendant commercials).
Hopefully, you’re planning on doing some writing before gridiron (if you’re the type who cares about American football). Here’s your prompt for the day.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: I’d walked through hell and then back again to get here and I’d be even more damned than I already was if I was going to let someone stand in my way.
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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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Hey look, halfway through that pesky work week for the MTWThF crowd! Two more days and we’ll be at the end of January.
Prompt Type: Opening Line
Prompt: I saw him standing there at the counter by the pastry case, waiting for the barista to give him his cup of coffee.
Let’s see what you can do with that. Feel free to change the gender of who your protagonist is seeing as needed.
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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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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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