Writing Prompt: The Thing in the Library
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January 2008
Okay, this is kewl. See my sidebar there, the little dealie showing random books from my library… yeah, that. It’s a little deal from LibraryThing that lets me show you what books I have in my library here. You can even click on the covers to buy one of them you might like from Amazon – pretty spiffy!
Anyway, LibraryThing is a really kewl website that I discovered this morning and have been playing with. It lets you create a virtual bookshelf of all your books (200 for free and more with yearly or lifetime subscriptions). You can see how many members have the same books as you and get recommendations for books you might enjoy based on the ones you have uploaded.
Get pictures of the covers of your books, or upload your own images if there are none on the site. I did that for one of my books today.
Okay, so…
The Writing Prompt?
A thing in a library. This opens up a lot of fascinating ideas for me as a fantasy writer. Oh what kinds of things might lurk in the libraries of fantasy worlds? But there could be a lot of fun in other genera’s as well. Horror comes to mind as a fun one hehehe. Sci-Fi could have interesting things in the libraries. Of course, the thing does not have to be a living thing. It could be some weird piece of artwork that the hero can only describe as “the thing in the library”.
