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Today’s writing prompt is “clasp”, this could be a clasp that holds something or the clasp of a hand on an arm.  Maybe it is the clasp of a purse or a broken clasp on a dog’s leash?  The clasp on a trunk or some kind of book?

I know it is not much to start writing from, and I apologize for that, but I”m fighting a bad headache right now.

Okay, so maybe it is not that inspiring of a writing prompt, but it is what was in my SPAM filter so why not?  Is your heroine a tomboy that never wears a dress?  What might get her into one?  Did your hero accidentally damage someone’s fancy dress and is trying to repair the damages? Maybe your space faring crew has arrived at a planet or space station and one of them is thinking to buy a dress in the local style for themselves or a friend/girlfriend/mother?  What might the dress be like?

You don’t have to get into fashion designing, maybe see if you can describe a dress in a manner that people know what you are describing without actually saying that the person is wearing a dress?

I woke this morning to having to do taxes, so how about we work that into the writing today?  Is it the old man complaining about the taxes at the checkout line in the store?  Maybe he is grousing about how they were never so high when he was younger?  Is there a tax that your space ship captain has to pay to be allowed to fly through a certain part of space?  Maybe it is a tax used to help find ways to combat the effect that the propulsion system on the ship has on the fabric of space?

In a fantasy setting, is there a tax on buying certain things? Maybe a tax on transporting things into the capitol city?  Do all who use magic have to pay a tax on the components they need for their spells?

Before you race off to your keyboard to write about a car doing a burnout, think for a moment on the other possibilities for this seemingly simple word when it is applied to the realm of writing.

A person can suffer from burnout, maybe because they have too much work piled onto their shoulders, or maybe they are having a hard time getting their life balanced out for work and other commitments?  Caregivers have their very own definition of burnout that many family caregivers suffer at one time or another.  It is brought on by having too much responsibility and not enough resources to help with that responsibility.

Do a small change to make it two words and you have a fire that ran out of fuel.  Did the engines on the space ship burn out?  Did the sacred fire that must burn forever suddenly burn out?  Has the sun began to burn out?

The coat of arms can be represented in your novel by anything from an actual coat of arms for a knight or king, to someone researching their family history and discovering what their ancient coat of arms was.

What kind of coats of arms would there be in a magical world?  Would they have a coat of arms in your far off future world?  Maybe a planet where there is a lot of stock placed in the coat of arms and what particular line the people of the planet are descended from?