New prompts

Some prompts for you. I encourage you to respond to these in the comments, your own journal (please link back!), or the privacy of your own imagination.

1. "She's not a vampire, or a wolfperson, she's a _____"
2. Print out one of your stories that didn't work. Cut it up into strips. Rearrange until it's something you can work with.
3. See this proverb. Write something in which the events build upon one another and one small slip can/does cause the whole thing to tumble.
4. At your next party of writers, play Exquisite Corpse. For stories, each player can write a line or paragraph; for novels, each player can write a chapter. 
5. "Children rule the world these days."
6. All that stands between us and total devastation is an old man and three paperclips.
7. "Is that a bleedin' rainbow comin' out of your shoe?"
8. "Scarlett O'Hara never had to deal with this."

Photo credit: Old typewriter by Petr Kratochvil

a few new prompts

I finally got the fire going, so I can write up some Prompts For You All.*

*I come by this term through marriage, as it were - my SIL is from Texas. Words are lovely and useful things and it's perfectly serviceable to adopt words from wherever one finds them. Voice, after all, is an acquired skill.

I encourage you to respond one or more of these prompts in the comments, on your own journal (but please leave a link in the comments!), or the privacy of your imagination.

1. "Your baking is always so . . . interesting."

2. The things you overhear in a mad scientist's lab.

3. An old woman dies and leaves a generous fortune to her cat. Everyone wants a piece, except one person.

4. You never noticed a particular detail in a family heirloom before.

5. What does the apprentice (or familiar) do when the witch or wizard says "oops"?

Photo credit: Old typewriter by Petr Kratochvil