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realiotrulio ([personal profile] realiotrulio) wrote2007-12-23 09:17 am
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In the Beginning, There Were Prompts

I have always wanted to be a writer.  Ever since I can remember.  My mother has, in her basement, what I thought of as "books" that I wrote when I was five and six years old.  When I was eleven or twelve, I decided to write a book (which turned out to be embarrassingly reminiscent of The Outsiders, my main literary influence at the time).  

But, now that I have time on my hands and I could write as much (or as little) as I wanted, I find myself shamefully devoid of ideas.  My creative-self, which used to be inspired by the small part of the world in which I found myself, seems to be starving.  

I need to kick-start my writerbrain.

So, I started to think about my most prolific and creative periods.  When did I write the most?  When did I write my best?  When I was in school.  When I had assignments.  When I had creative writing classes.

This is where you come in.  

I need assignments.  Writing prompts.  Something to inspire, to stimulate, to rouse my seemingly-dormant writerbrain and make it work.  I need your help.  Desperately.  I'm begging. 

So, THE RULES:

1.  Writing will officially begin on January 1, 2008.
2.  Prompts can be offered at any time starting right now.
3.  Prompts must be left as a comment on this journal.  
4.  Prompts can be a single word, a phrase, but must be no longer than one sentence (you've got to leave me room to be creative with my response).
5.  Beginning, January 1, 2008, I must post a response to a prompt of my choosing on a daily basis.
6.  If I run out of prompts, I still have to post something daily (in other words, I need to find my own prompts....and, just like anyone else, I will leave the prompts as a comment in this journal).

So, LET THE PROMPTING BEGIN!!!!

off_coloratura: (Cookie Monster pencil)

Prompts

[personal profile] off_coloratura 2007-12-23 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
A room you've never noticed before

The aquarium

Stepping through the wall

Prompt

[identity profile] lucy-continued.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Your car breaking down

[identity profile] thunderslug.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Blonde roots on a redhead.

Prompts

[identity profile] gentleeleos.livejournal.com 2007-12-26 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
1. Birthdays
2. Smiling to keep from crying
3. Ways of making love
4. One thing wrapped around another
5. A sea monster
6. Not knowing with whom to sympathize
7. Flying
Edited 2008-01-04 02:20 (UTC)

[identity profile] wyrrlen.livejournal.com 2007-12-26 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Conflict with friends

Season change

Favorite pet

[identity profile] lysettedwinter.livejournal.com 2007-12-26 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
A friend brings you an ancient book in an unknown language. You open it and the first sentence you read is "If you wish to live, tell no one you can understand this."

[identity profile] spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com 2007-12-27 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
roses in winter

Prompts (taken from shadesong's LJ)

[identity profile] gentleeleos.livejournal.com 2007-12-30 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
1. Breakfast cereal
2. Comfort food
3. Imaginary friends
4. Waiting sucks
5. I can tell by the set of your jaw you’re trying hard to care.
6. She had her mother’s hands
7. Skinned knee
8. Staring at the cold, iron bars that separated him and me…
9. You really need to stop picking at that
10. Parent’s nighttime vigil over her child
11. Cello
12. Sunburn
13. The last time I was here, I was someone else.
14. Pie
15. I know better than to wish for love
16. Because to him, you are food.
Edited 2008-01-04 02:19 (UTC)

Prompt from your Other Mother

(Anonymous) 2007-12-31 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
One day I woke up and the whole world was yellow.

Explain it.

[identity profile] peterchayward.livejournal.com 2007-12-31 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would he do that? Why the number 11, why the red hat? Why? The whole fucking thing doesn't make sense to me.

[identity profile] realiotrulio.livejournal.com 2008-01-01 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the prompt! I used it today. *smiles*

Your Mom

(Anonymous) 2008-01-02 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
She was only 4 but she knew something was wrong and she wanted her mother...

(Anonymous) 2008-01-02 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
A young lade who realizes she is a terrific flirt but disastrous at the next step. Actuality. And who and what is the person that changes that pattern for that poor unfortunate girl.

Can't wait to see what you come up with. "It's the least I could do."

(Anonymous) 2008-01-02 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
You know of course that was supposed to be "lady" and not "lade".

I didn't want you thinking I was an idiot and bypassing my prompt because of it.

I'm paranoid. What can I say.

[identity profile] lysettedwinter.livejournal.com 2008-01-02 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
A wedge of cheese and a piece of chocolate.

A glass of red wine.

Waking up before sunrise.

Blue silk and silver bells.

A hawk.

Re: Prompts

[identity profile] realiotrulio.livejournal.com 2008-01-03 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the prompts! I used one of them today. :)
Edited 2008-01-03 03:14 (UTC)

[identity profile] realiotrulio.livejournal.com 2008-01-03 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the prompts! I used one of them today. :)
off_coloratura: (Cookie Monster pencil)

Re: Prompts

[personal profile] off_coloratura 2008-01-03 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
woo hoo!
off_coloratura: (reading)

Re: Prompts

[personal profile] off_coloratura 2008-01-03 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's a really nice one...

Ever since I read House of Leaves I've had a fascination with appearing rooms. I also used to have lots of dreams about discovering a room I'd never noticed before.

PROMPT

(Anonymous) 2008-01-03 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"What the Hell is this tree doing here?"

[identity profile] raicee.livejournal.com 2008-01-03 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
PROMPTS

An abandoned victorian mansion.

a torrid affair with a much younger man.

a medieval forest.

fairies at Stonehenge.

Frum Miloh

(Anonymous) 2008-01-03 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Treats and walks

Oh, just another

[identity profile] thunderslug.livejournal.com 2008-01-03 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Free fall.

[identity profile] thunderslug.livejournal.com 2008-01-03 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and feel free to return the favor...I'm not going to cherry-pick off of the *great* ideas your friends have, because this isn't mine (I have an odd sense of propriety--sorry), mostly because I don't want to compete with the same idea.

Of course, I *could* just ask my flist for prompts...

[identity profile] zianuray.livejournal.com 2008-01-03 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaleidoscope colors reflecting on a white wall

A card reading for Mme LaVeau

The shop that wasn't there



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