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Almost halfway through the first month of the year! Today’s prompt is another using Kim Freimoeller’s Inspiration Dice.
Prompt type: Genre, setting, character, and plot seed
Prompt: A fantasy romance where an adult female hero willingly recovers from an ambush to prove herself.
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I’ll admit it, there’s been a lot of Imagine Dragons on my playlists lately, but there’s just something about their music…
Prompt Type: Music prompt
Prompt:
Music is “Demons” by Imagine Dragons; video courtesy of YouTube.
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Happy Sunday, folks! A new type of prompt today.
Prompt type: Rewrite a scene from a historical document
Prompt: Reimagine the scene below however you’d like.
He walked for five miles away from Dorchester
And came to a hilltop very high and beautiful,
Where he fell on his knees in prayer calling continually upon God
For Him to avenge him on the accursed people
Who had dishonored him with their harmful actions.
Our Lord heard his voice reaching into heaven
And set down his vengeance on the wretched people
Who had hung sting-ray tails on to the clerics:
Those tails were stuck on to them, and for this they can be derided;
All that tribe were disgraced: they all had little muggles,
And in every household people called them ‘mugglings,’
And every gentleman says foul things about them…
Selection is from Lawman’s Brut, translated by Rosamund Allen. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
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If you’ve been with me for all nine days, thank you! If you’ve just discovered the prompts, feel free to scroll back through the earlier prompts and see what if anything wonderful sparks.
Today is another prompt using Kim Freimoeller’s Inspiration Dice.
Prompt type: Genre, setting, character, and plot seed
Prompt: An adventure story where a trickster is redeemed by loss.
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Another photo prompt today — maybe if you ask nicely, I’ll tell you where and when I took it.
Prompt type: Image
Prompt:
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Seven days down, 358 to go!
Prompt Type: Music Prompt
Prompt:
Music is “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons; video courtesy of YouTube.
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Hope you’ve been finding inspiration lately. On to the next prompt.
Prompt Type: Dialogue Only
Prompt: Craft the scene surrounding the dialogue below and see where it takes you!
“Why would your parents do something like that to you?”
“I don’t know. Maybe because they hate me. Why does it matter?”
“I don’t know. I guess it doesn’t, but–”
“Then why are we having this conversation?”
“I–”
“Right. Moving on.”
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