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writerfangirl) wrote2010-01-12 11:52 pm
writerfangirl) wrote2010-01-12 11:52 pm
Writing Prompts (originally from toextraordinary on Insanejournal)
I've been thinking about prompts and I decided to hit the prompt community that I had made. There are some ninety prompts there. Lots of variety. Some are quotes, but most are phrases or are titles of books that I absolutely fell in love with. I gathered all of them in 2008, when I was a bookseller who was responsible for shelving books. So I got to see A LOT of books.
Please feel free to use these prompts for whatever you want to do with them. If you do use them, write to them, I'd love to see the result!
1. What does it mean to you to be different? If you could go back to being what you were, would you?
2. One moment changes everything
3. "Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie
4. Who or what would you risk everything for?
5. Tell a story in six words
6. Where do you see yourself in ten years from now? Too long? How about in five years? Two years? A year and a day from now?
7. Fear ends where faith begins
8. Red or blue. Truth or ignorance of truth. If you could go back and take all the knowledge away, to return to your old life complete, would you? Why or why not?
9. Do you believe in a god? What is your relationship with religion and your higher power? Describe how your spirituality and/or religion affects your life.
10. "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I walk alone
I walk a...
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...
Is it better to walk a path alone, risking loneliness, or to walk one with others, but possibly endanger their lives? Why or why not?
12. Beginnings and Endings
13. You possess the ability to have one person killed without any consequences. Who is this person? Why? If you don't choose to kill him or her, why not?
14. You can bring one person back to life. It doesn't matter how long ago or how recently this person died. Who is it? Why? Would you take this opportunity? If you choose to pass on the opportunity, why?
15. For one day, you don't exist. People cannot see you and do not think about you. How do you spend this day?
16. Would you like to have children? Why or why not? If you already have kids, how would you like them to see you if they don't see you this way already?
17. Faith manages. True? Not true? Why?
18. Do you have a life's purpose? What is it? Have you always known your purpose to be as it is now? If it has changed, how has it changed?
19. Do you believe in second chances? Why or why not?
20. What is your greatest accomplishment up until now?
21. Can you have a life with happiness and with meaning? Why or why not?
22. If you could be well-known or insignificant, which would you be? Why?
23. Up to this point in your life, who has made the biggest impact (good or bad) on you? How?
24. What is the meaning of your name (first, last, or both)? Does it fit your personality? How?
25. What is/was your current/last profession? Are you happy with it? Why or why not? If you don't do it anymore, do you want to go back? Why or why not?
26. Write about one of the happiest days of your life
27. What, if anything, do you have faith in? Why?
28. Everyone has a plan they are following, a direction they are going. What is the next course of action on your list?
29. You remind me of me
30. The bright side of disaster
31. The space between us
32. Life is never as it seems
33. Family pictures
34. "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds" - William Shakespeare
35. "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
36. Broken paradise
37. Small wonder
38. For the time being
39. A page out of your life
40. What do you dream about? Do you have nice dreams? Nightmares? What could these dreams mean?
41. Dancing through life
42. The paths we choose
43. Frozen silence
44. The opposite of Fate
45. A bend in the road
46. All I intended to be
47. Hardships and heartaches
48. Another thing to fall
49. Space between before and after
50. The places in between
51. Unquiet dreams
52. Smoke and mirrors
53. Transcendent
54. Five things I can't live withoug
55. Fragile things
56. Resistance
57. Redemption
58. Love is never painless
59. Path of honor
60. I didn't mean it
61. Monsters
62. Aftermath
63. Trial by fire
64. Stolen time
65. Control
66. Turning point
67. Fathers & daughters
68. Super-heroics
69. Path of the Righteous
70. String theory
71. Walls
72. Heroism is found in the heart
73. Flying blind
74. The crossroads
75. The last Shangri-la
76. Special
77. Normal lives
78. Past experience
79. Blindsided
80. Pieces of me
81. Different and the same
82. History of a secret
83. On the lam
84. Career choices
85. Trust issues
86. Faces
87. Morally Grey
88. Fate versus free-will
89. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it (Hebrews 13:2, NIV)
Please feel free to use these prompts for whatever you want to do with them. If you do use them, write to them, I'd love to see the result!
1. What does it mean to you to be different? If you could go back to being what you were, would you?
2. One moment changes everything
3. "Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie
4. Who or what would you risk everything for?
5. Tell a story in six words
6. Where do you see yourself in ten years from now? Too long? How about in five years? Two years? A year and a day from now?
7. Fear ends where faith begins
8. Red or blue. Truth or ignorance of truth. If you could go back and take all the knowledge away, to return to your old life complete, would you? Why or why not?
9. Do you believe in a god? What is your relationship with religion and your higher power? Describe how your spirituality and/or religion affects your life.
10. "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I walk alone
I walk a...
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...
Is it better to walk a path alone, risking loneliness, or to walk one with others, but possibly endanger their lives? Why or why not?
12. Beginnings and Endings
13. You possess the ability to have one person killed without any consequences. Who is this person? Why? If you don't choose to kill him or her, why not?
14. You can bring one person back to life. It doesn't matter how long ago or how recently this person died. Who is it? Why? Would you take this opportunity? If you choose to pass on the opportunity, why?
15. For one day, you don't exist. People cannot see you and do not think about you. How do you spend this day?
16. Would you like to have children? Why or why not? If you already have kids, how would you like them to see you if they don't see you this way already?
17. Faith manages. True? Not true? Why?
18. Do you have a life's purpose? What is it? Have you always known your purpose to be as it is now? If it has changed, how has it changed?
19. Do you believe in second chances? Why or why not?
20. What is your greatest accomplishment up until now?
21. Can you have a life with happiness and with meaning? Why or why not?
22. If you could be well-known or insignificant, which would you be? Why?
23. Up to this point in your life, who has made the biggest impact (good or bad) on you? How?
24. What is the meaning of your name (first, last, or both)? Does it fit your personality? How?
25. What is/was your current/last profession? Are you happy with it? Why or why not? If you don't do it anymore, do you want to go back? Why or why not?
26. Write about one of the happiest days of your life
27. What, if anything, do you have faith in? Why?
28. Everyone has a plan they are following, a direction they are going. What is the next course of action on your list?
29. You remind me of me
30. The bright side of disaster
31. The space between us
32. Life is never as it seems
33. Family pictures
34. "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds" - William Shakespeare
35. "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
36. Broken paradise
37. Small wonder
38. For the time being
39. A page out of your life
40. What do you dream about? Do you have nice dreams? Nightmares? What could these dreams mean?
41. Dancing through life
42. The paths we choose
43. Frozen silence
44. The opposite of Fate
45. A bend in the road
46. All I intended to be
47. Hardships and heartaches
48. Another thing to fall
49. Space between before and after
50. The places in between
51. Unquiet dreams
52. Smoke and mirrors
53. Transcendent
54. Five things I can't live withoug
55. Fragile things
56. Resistance
57. Redemption
58. Love is never painless
59. Path of honor
60. I didn't mean it
61. Monsters
62. Aftermath
63. Trial by fire
64. Stolen time
65. Control
66. Turning point
67. Fathers & daughters
68. Super-heroics
69. Path of the Righteous
70. String theory
71. Walls
72. Heroism is found in the heart
73. Flying blind
74. The crossroads
75. The last Shangri-la
76. Special
77. Normal lives
78. Past experience
79. Blindsided
80. Pieces of me
81. Different and the same
82. History of a secret
83. On the lam
84. Career choices
85. Trust issues
86. Faces
87. Morally Grey
88. Fate versus free-will
89. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it (Hebrews 13:2, NIV)