Prompt Call: Have a Prompty New Year

[jeriendhal]

I've been fighting my annual SAD with some difficulty, and frankly slacking on my writing. To get over this, I'm opening a call for drabble prompts. One hundred words set in any of my worlds, Tez and Maria, For Your Safety, The Red Vixen Adventures, the Dragon's Companion, or the Triumvirate universe. Any subject, so long as it's around PG-13 at worst.

In return, I'm going to post one a day. Every Day. For the year. 365 days. 36,500 words. Less than full novel honestly.

If I can't at least do that, I don't deserve to be called a writer.

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

Here are three you can use anywhere to get you started. Go for it!

An unexpected visit.

A surprise package.

Lost and found.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Ponders. I can make use of all three in one drabble, but I am trying to keep this PG-13. ;p

[rix_scaedu]

And here I thought I was giving completely unloaded prompts! :)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

What can I say, my mind is in the gutter. At least when it isn't coming up to feed.

[rix_scaedu]

As long as it's entertainingly so. :)

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

That fellow with the beard

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

I forget, do you have anything Tez & Maria shortly after the birth of their first child?

I'd like to see more bits about Andrea, and/or Arthur

Triumvirate Magic is chaotic, so how about something with it backfiring on its user? Or something featuring the dragons from that setting.

The Dragon's Companion, a bit more of Watcher?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I forget, do you have anything Tez & Maria shortly after the birth of their first child?

Not yet. Daddy Tez Would be fun to see, yes. :)

[avanti-90.livejournal.com]

Historical RPF AU in which dinosaurs survived. :-)

[avanti-90.livejournal.com]

An alternate Earth in which penguins are intelligent.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

You hate me, don't you? ;p

[avanti-90.livejournal.com]

Just helping you have an interesting new year. :-)

[sraun]

A Tez story from his youth - before he realized that he was immortal, how he came to realize he was immortal, how he came to be immortal.

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

* For Your Safety: The AI Group Mind was determined to go to any length to protect humanity... So were they really willing to risk all of humanity in one Earth-Ring basket?

* The enemy's unexpected, and insistent, surrender.

* Homesick for space.

* Summer camp for teenage protagonists.

* Uhoh, you've been struck by the current outbreak of Random Omnipotent Beings snagging people and putting them into stories. Where'd you get sent and what does the ROB want you to do?

* A convenient random plot device affects Tez and Maria making them both children. How do they react? Will whoever caused it to happen survive?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I think you may have stumped me on #5 there...

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

Heh, #5 probably comes from reading Spacebattles.com's Creative Writing forum. A recent trope/trend has been for self-insert fanfic in which a Random Omnipotent Being (EG: We don't know for sure who did it, but whoever it was certainly has well-nigh Q or godlike powers) removes someone from our world and drops them into a fictional world. Sometimes with no explanation, sometimes with a note saying, "You know what's wrong with world X? Problem Y is what's wrong with it, use your Out Of Context knowledge and fix it if you ever want to go home."

Not a new trope, but I *think* popularized recently by the fanfic Sleeping With the Girls, in which the author/character is shifting along a loop of six fictional worlds whenever he loses consciousness for any reason. (And he's now desperately trying to fix things after realizing he transported part of a used-by-the-heroes-for-victory McGuffin from one world and left it with a villain in another world)

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

What happened to the other intelligent, tool-using species of Earth in For Your Safety? i.e. Captive chimps?

[avanti-90.livejournal.com]

Mad mathematicians plot to take over the world.

A fairy godmother waves her wand, and a pumpkin turns into a spaceship.

For Your Safety: The groupmind develops a psychological disorder of your choice.

OK, some more general ones

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Visiting a grave

Ghost deer

A situation in which knowing many fairy tales is useful.

A character dealing with an impostor pretending to be them.

Haggling

A love potion working too well.

Big Badaboom!

Language barrier

Sailing the high seas

"That's my grandpa's teeth you got there"

Finding bones while gardening (or construction work or whatever)

[rix_scaedu]

Am I allowed to leave a second lot of prompts?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Go right ahead!

[rix_scaedu]

Here are four more for you then. Enjoy!:

Tiptoeing along the edge of disaster.

And, behind the second door!

Extremes of natural temperature.

Commencement speech.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

The latest equivalent of Pompeii, in Tez's world. Of course, he had something to do with it.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

Frost Flowers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_flower_%28sea_ice%29

[seawasp]

"Everything's Better with Daleks!"

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Growing pains

My cat is the one in charge of our relationship

Out of the mouths of babes

First among equals

You don't pay me enough for this

Cleaning house

Does what it says on the box

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

parasitic butterflies

whales and necromancy

Project Thunderwell (the nuclear test that launched a manhole cover at Solar escape velocity)

[shadur.livejournal.com]

Because Sir Isaac Newton is the DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE.

[shadur.livejournal.com]

One of your characters, victorious, and wishing they weren't.

[shadur.livejournal.com]

* Waking up next to someone they didn't expect.


* "I swear, I'm NEVER going to do that again..."