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Writing Prompts 2 |
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TEHUTI'S PER ON THE WEB 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." I just did a quick Google search and can no longer find anything related to the writing prompt link given; www.theblob.org is still around, but has nothing to do with this subject, I'm not sure what it even is. (Something about "rotating words," though it replaces the letters with different ones.) After unsuccessfully searching for "Raina" and "Dawn" and prompts, it occurred to me, duh, to try the Internet Archive! HERE is the last successful archive of the site.
Taken from my old online journal. Some information edited/removed. 2004. 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... |