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Prompt for March 14, 2014 – Day 73

Happy Friday, folks!

Time for another prompt.

Prompt Type: Character History

Prompt: Take the main character from your current project (if you have multiple projects or multiple mains, pick the one you feel like you know the least about right now) and imagine what they were doing twenty years ago. Write a scene set in that time period and see where it takes you.

With any luck, you may be able to incorporate what you’ve just learned about your character in your current project.

Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for March 12, 2014 – Day 71

So they’ve predicted something like 10 inches of snow to fall where I’m at and I still somehow have to make it to the office.  Hopefully, you’re safe and snug someplace and don’t have to go anywhere–all cozy with a prompt to keep you busy!

Prompt Type: Opening line

Prompt:  The ice wastes are the most inhospitable habitat in the world, but somehow the tribes living there had done more than just cling to life there–they had thrived and now they had returned to the southlands to reclaim what had once been theirs.

Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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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?

Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for March 9, 2014 – Day 68

Hopefully, everyone remembered to spring ahead today (the folks who needed to, anyway).

On to your prompt!

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.

The flower that blooms in adversity is often the most rare and beautiful.

— Emperor, Mulan

Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for March 7, 2014 – Day 66

Happy Friday!

Prompt Type: Character Development

Prompt:  Think about your main character 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 main character be different if envy  motivated them?  Write a character sketch or scene detailing how hope motivates the actions of your main character.

Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for March 3, 2014 – Day 62

First Monday of March — and it doesn’t look like winter’s loosening its grip on any of us yet.

Here’s a prompt to keep you busy if you’re stuck at home due to the weather today.

Prompt Type: Toolbox

Prompt:  Come up with a character who might have the following array of items in a purse, backpack, their trunk, etc–then write a scene in which they use some (or all) of these items to save the day.

  1. Fishing line
  2. Two spools of fabric ribbon
  3. Bottle of soda
  4. A bag of carrots
  5. Three pairs of blue jeans
  6. A flare gun

Got an idea for a prompt?  Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Prompt for March 2, 2014 – Day 61

Another weekend coming to a close.  Happy Sunday, folks.

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.

We are not a family, we are a firm.

— George VI of England, quoted by A. B. Baxter in Destiny Called to Them (Oxford University Press, 1939)

Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.