writing prompts

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A Room of One’s Own

Relax, breathe and think… about a room of your own. It could be a one room house, cut off from everyone else or it could be one room in a house with only one door keeping the masses out. It could be just a bathroom, just a reading room. just a home office or a whole house of your own in a one room shack. (Some of those shacks are pretty deluxe).

Think about your one room, a place of your own, for just your things, your hobbies, your passions and your luxuries. You can choose to open the door and let in family and friends or you can hide away and just be a hermit from the world for awhile. Design your one room, think about the furniture, flooring, windows, or maybe it’s just a bare room with nothing at all in it to clutter up the bare floor and walls.

Keep your room design with you for those times when you really need that place of your own, a secret, quiet, get-away.

Grey Hair, Whiskers and Spots

It’s actually, finally happened… you’ve become your Mother. You hear yourself saying the things she usually says, your body is making the same little creaks you remember her making and you look in the mirror and even see your Mother looking back at you.

This isn’t all bad. Your Mother wasn’t all bad, of course. But, those grey hairs, whiskers and age spots are just plain mean to make you feel so much older before your time.

Would you really give up all your years of experience, the drama, passion, good times and tears to get rid of all the grey hair, whiskers and spots? Are they a terrible trade off after all?

Sanity in an Elevator

You’re having a really long day at work. Nothing you want to do more than get home and relax, flake right out. Maybe order some pizza to eat in front of the TV. You hop into the elevator along with the masses heading for the subway and you prepare yourself to be packed along until you reach the freedom of home.

But the elevator chooses that day to have a problem. You’re not going anywhere soon. Twenty seven people crammed into an elevator built for a maximum of 30. So at least you have a little time and space.

How do you keep from going crazy in the hour it takes for them to service the elevator and get everyone off?

Your Lake House

I’m watching The Lake House with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. If you were trapped two years in the past from someone you fell in love with (like a fluke situation in The Lake House) how would you communicate and what would you do that would show up in the future.

Keanu’s character planted a tree at the building site where Sandra’s future apartment was to be built. What a great romantic gesture. What could you come up with?

Tail Twitching

A tiger has escaped from the city zoo. You know this because you live not far outside the city in a nice house at the end of a residential street and there is a tiger staring at you through glass door of your walk out to the deck in your backyard. He looks kind of peaceful, just sitting there, hardly moving at all but for the twitch at the tip of his tail. But you’re afraid to move in case that makes him decide to move. It’s much nicer just having a quiet, slow staring contest with the tiger. You just know things are not going to go all that well for you once he starts moving. How long can you keep up just staring and what finally happens to break the stand off?

The Addicting Black Box

The Black Box. It’s an unassuming widget on a blog… then you decide to click it.

coffee or tea

slow or fast

Champagne or beer

trick or treat

You decide which you prefer and each click carries you to the next choice, until the end, where you type in your own decision for someone else. You can also follow the link to the mystery blog which your choices have led you to.

Please, do not leave it saying choiceA or choiceB, don’t be that unimaginative and bland. Come up with something interesting and yet something anyone is likely to know and understand. Not everyone knows American movie actors and not everyone drinks alcohol.

Majesty Rules

Majesty is a video game where you rule the kingdom and can only have your people (heros) do as you want by offering rewards. There are builders who will build all your marketplaces, blacksmiths and other essential structures. There is an embassy which is one of my favourite things to build as it keeps shipping in replacement heros as they are killed off, a bit of auto pilot.

Anyway, if you were a hero or heroine inside the game of Majesty what kind of spells, armour and swords would you pack and how much would the reward have to be before you faced trolls, dragons and those sneaky elves?

Spend In 48 Hours

Get On With It has a post in her blog about winning a million dollars/ pounds if you can spend it all in 48 hours.

How would you really spend it? Keeping in mind that it all has to be gone.

I wrote:

I’c buy a real home for everyone in my family. Not something huge and flashy but real, comfort, a place you can really feel you belong.

Yes, that is my typo, left it as it was.

Soap Opera Babies

On a soap opera the characters who are men can have children pop up from out of the woodwork, it makes it easy for the writers to introduce new, young characters into the storyline and have them already connected to the existing characters. Good strategy.

Women don’t have it that easy. We know when we have had a child, kind of hard to forget being pregnant all those months and then going through labour.

If you were a writer on a soap opera what kind of strategies could you come up with to bring in a new character and claim the Mother is a female character who knows nothing about having a baby who could be that age at this time. How would a writer get around that?