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Writing Prompt: End of Times

21
February 2010

Exhausted and asleep as I type this, so I am going to point you all to someone else today.  Fanstring Theory has a good one up tonight on what would happen if the end of days got here and someone was to make a last ditch effort to save some of mankind by sending them to another world somewhere.

Writing Prompt: Nautical Notes

20
February 2010

Picture by Kriss Szkurlatowski

This little box just speaks to the muses in all kinds of ways.

Hidden diary pages that tell where some pirate hid his treasure? The lost ledger pages of a shipwreck? Diary pages from some stranded sailor’s journal?

Writing Prompt: Landscape

19
February 2010

Once again SXC helps us out with this picture by Streuli Silvan.

This is a picture of Horseshoe Bend, about 5 miles south of Page AZ on highway 89.

It looks a bit more like some kind of crater on Mars or something.

What if the first men on Mars discovered something like this? A crater that had gone unnoticed, but had a deep ring of water around a central pillar of some kind?

What might it be? Some ancient Martian missile silo, the silo filled with water and the cone of the intergalactic missile still sticking up out of the deep hole?

Writing Prompt: Lazy Bear

18
February 2010

This lazy fellow is from the New York zoo.

Is he plotting his escape? Dejected because that polar bear they used to have up in Alaska got a show and t-shirt and he has yet to tag his first tourist?

Maybe he is depressed because he was just told he is gong to be released into the wild and will soon have to fend for himself and not get fed daily?

Is some hapless traveler abut to walk up on this fellow out in the wild?

Writing Prompt: Thorn

17
February 2010

This is another SXC picture, this one by Billy W. who describes it as “Female Tree hopper in the front yard!”

It looks more to me like the forward guard of the alien insect invasion.

Possible writing ideas would be to explain what kind of alien this is, or to create a story about someone finding one of these guys.

If you want to go for non-fiction you could research what these guys are and write an article on them.


Disclaimer:I would like to say that the muses work for free around here, but unfortunately there are some things that the Equal Rights for Muses Society (ERMS) has informed me of. They issued a rather lengthy document on fancy parchment written out by the muse scribes of their lawyers, but it basically said that the muses can not afford my prolificness. They say if I am going to write so much and make them work so hard, then they want me to provide support for their poor children. (Do you have any idea how many kids a wild jackalope muse has? ::faints::) I can't afford to support all of those little Jackalopes, so, I have chosen to place advertising on my sites. I try to keep it unobtrusive and I try to make sure it is about things that you want to find out about when I post the things into the journal/blog/newsletter entries, but, bottom line is, the muses have my hands tied. They won't let me write if they are not paid. I don't know who's idea it was to tell them about unions, but the suckers got good lawyers now. And that is why I have advertising on my websites and blogs.

Okay, so in reality, it is a simple mathematical equation of me needing to live and being unable to get work outside the home. You see, while the Daily Writing Prompt is a labor of love by a writer that can never get enough of writing, it is also by a writer that is a full-time family caregiver. Being a family caregiver is the highest stress unpaid job in the world, and for that reason there are advertisements on this site. There may even be advertisements in some of the postings, it is a necessary step to allow me to continue bringing you the daily prompts and the other writer related things I have for free and lets me buy food and clothing and pay bills and pay for my webhosting and other necessary things. Thank you for your understanding.

Sandra
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