AUTHOR'S NOTE: More writing prompts of mine! (You can see that I tried to use my first prompt, "a silver car," in the unfinished story "From The Silver Car.") Enjoy!
Taken from my old online journal. Some information edited/removed.
Sink Your Teeth Into These
06/04/04
3:17 am EDT
Looking for writing or journaling prompts, I came across this site-- http://www.theblob.org/raina/prompts/ --which takes an interesting approach in offering just these odd little phrases or objects or situations for inspiration. They're intended mainly for fantasy writers (*droolage*). There are seventy of them there. I've been collecting a lot of prompts lately but when it comes to just sitting down and WRITING something from them...for some reason I keep freezing up. o_o I blame this stupid dream transcription thingie. I never start any big undertakings (including writing journal entries, on- or offline) for fear of not having enough time. Even now I'm writing in here later than I should be. *grr*
But anyway, I sat down last night and wondered if *I* could think up any interesting prompts. Well, that question still hasn't been answered. But I did try to come up with a few. I thought I would try to do at least a hundred. So far I have just over fifty. So I'll share the first fifty with you people reading my journal. Don't you feel privileged?
Unlike Dawn, the creator of the site above, my prompts are all objects of a sort, rather than situations and things like that, since I'm better at visualizing concrete things, apparently.
Here you go. Sorry if they get repetitive or boring, but remember, I usually write, not write prompts.
1. a silver car
2. a box full of keys, of all shapes and sizes
3. a hidden courtyard
4. a fuzzy purple blanket
5. a cracked piece of amber
6. chipped stone angels
7. a fan made of leaves
8. tiny windows
9. a flooded cave
10. a cheetah with a diamond collar
11. a book missing all its pages
12. a hair from a lion's mane
13. blue buttons
14. a dusty oil lamp
15. a pearl-handled brush
16. fireflies skimming the water
17. a telephone that rings at the same hour every night
18. a coat with many pockets
19. a silver hair tie
20. dead leaves scattered across the floor
21. violet-tinted spectacles
22. a teddy bear with mismatched eyes
23. a pincushion full of needles
24. little yellow apples
25. a jewel-studded tooth
26. a broken birdcage
27. an empty picture frame
28. a pen with green ink
29. a sandbox with a hole in it
30. birds that don't sing
31. half-empty bottles on a dusty shelf
32. three dolls which are identical, but for one thing
33. papers burning in a fireplace
34. clouds shaped like horses
35. a pink tint at evening
36. a lightning-scarred tree
37. pebbles in a rain puddle
38. a broken seesaw
39. grains of sugar lining a spoon
40. a dollhouse without furniture
41. a hole under a fence
42. an echoing hallway full of chairs
43. a bedframe decorated with ribbons
44. a humid, hazy night, August 27th
45. a bicycle basket full of wilted flowers
46. a ruby ring with a broken setting
47. a light flickering in a tent
48. a ladder missing a step
49. indigo walls
50. cream-colored thread
That's it for now. I do have a few more but I like nice even numbers so until I come up with fifty more, that's all there is.
I don't know if they're any good but if you think you could use any for a story or something go right ahead, because that's what they're for.
Tar...
More To Sink Your Teeth Into
06/05/04
11:13 am EDT
Okies, I managed to come up with another fifty of those creative writing prompts I started in the last entry...so now you have a hundred of them. Enjoy, or not, whichever.
51. a flock of ruffled ducks
52. a handprint in the dust
53. a crooked sundial
54. the smell of wet earth
55. an unfinished spiderweb
56. a covered mirror
57. wet shoes
58. the first star visible at night
59. a tattered quill pen
60. a collection of snowglobes
61. toenails painted gold
62. photographs tacked to the wall
63. a bowl of ribbon candy
64. illegible writing
65. fur-lined pillows
66. frosty breath
67. a goldfish with a torn fin
68. a smudged kitchen window
69. a small table in the corner
70. a yellow hat
71. tiny glass deer
72. chips of bark
73. a crushed box with something inside
74. a dented whistle
75. a jar full of marbles
76. dry grass
77. a door hanging off its hinges
78. graffiti under a bridge
79. an arrangement of white feathers
80. flakes of colored foil
81. wind stirring some bamboo chimes
82. red and gold carpeting
83. two tea-stained cups
84. a low tide
85. a door that won't stay shut
86. rustling noises in the eaves
87. a half-toppled cairn
88. a vanilla-scented candle, half melted
89. a lifelike stuffed pheasant
90. several jigsaw puzzles mixed together
91. water streaming down a culvert
92. a gilded violin bow
93. the back corner of a banquet hall
94. a salamander and a frog in an aquarium
95. a pale pink stain on a white rug
96. a smile half hidden behind a hand
97. shiny new tires on a bicycle
98. shadows cast by flowers
99. a dead moth
100. an old kaleidoscope in the attic
In addition I'd like to present ten fantasy animal prompts I came up with this morning. I was aiming for twenty-five, but these turned out to be PRETTY HARD. There are only so many interesting things an animal can do, I guess. I would use these ideas myself if I could find a way to fit them into Manitou Island. o_o
1. turtles whose shells act as scrying devices
2. chinchillas with fur of real silver
3. spiders who spin threads of metal
4. caterpillars who emerge from their cocoons as gemstones
5. porcupines whose quills can be removed and used as pens
6. snails whose shells carry hidden messages
7. peacocks whose tail feathers ring like chimes
8. giraffes whose spots form maps
9. deer whose shed antlers turn into trees
10. dragonflies which, when strung together, form invisible cloaks
Maybe sometime when I'm more inspired I can continue that list. It seems to have lots of bugs on it, doesn't it? Oh well. Somebody enjoy.
Tar...
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