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101 Writing Prompts for Fantasy and
Science Fiction Writers
Volume 2
By L. K. Grant
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Text copyright © 2012 L. K. Grant
Cover art copyright © 2012 GeoffreyA. Pratt
Cover design copyright © 2012 L. K.
Grant
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for the sweet ladies and gents from
various writing groups
who were kind enough
to be my guinea pigs
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for Jo Carson
who showed me the dragon
and the way past it
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Using These Prompts
Thank You!
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Preface
Dear Writer,
You’re back! I hope that last round ofwriting prompts has served you well!
Seriously, I’d love to read them some
ime, so please email me:
As with the last one, I wanted this
book to be more than just a list of
writing prompts, though it certainly
delivers that.
hope to show you, a writer of
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speculative and outlandish fiction, a
way of generating your own prompts
or fantasy and sci-fi stories using
history, personal and anecdotal
experiences, and the fascinating
origins of common words and
phrases.
Many pages of this book offer not jus
a prompt but also the seed of the
prompt, showing you how I have usedreality to create reality-bending story
deas.
have tried to derive many of theseprompts from real science, real
experiences and real people. Truly
engaging fantasy, science and
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speculative fiction all contain one
hing: a grain of truth. When readers
sense verisimilitude, they will let you
ake them to fascinating new worlds.
They will believe everything you tell
hem.
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Using These Prompts
f you downloaded this book, chancesare you already know how writing
prompts work. But as a refresher, her
are a few tips.
Give each prompt at least five
minutes of solid writing. If you find
yourself writing for a couple of hours
as the result of one prompt, great!
Some of them may even lead you to
complete stories or novels, and if that
happens, awesome. But give yourbrain a chance to kick in to gear with
each one. Even if you sit in front of
he computer for four and a half
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minutes with nothing of worth comin
out, you are giving your brain a
workout. Your brain is like you
probably were in high school: it gets
bored in class and starts to daydream
While daydreams got you in trouble
when you were a teenager, they areexactly what your brain should be
doing.
With many prompts, I ask severalquestions. Feel free to answer some,
all or none of them.
Many writers use prompts to get the
creative juices flowing before sitting
down to the hard slog of writing.
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Others use prompts to give their brain
some relief, especially if they find
hemselves stuck within a longer piece
of fiction. With this in mind, I have
written a lot of these prompts with
“your character” as the main subject,
so that you can take your protagonistout of the novel/story you are
currently working on and plop
him/her down in another setting, just
o shake things up a bit and see what
happens. If you’re just writing to get
he aforementioned juices flowing,
his may be a great way for you tomeet’ new characters, characters tha
may decide that you are the one to
write their story.
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Some pages provide simply a strange
or underused word and its definition.
The dictionary is a great place to find
nspiration, and for these prompts I
suggest that you try one of several
methods: write the word into a scene
use the word as the title of a book orstory, or use the word as a name for a
new character and write about that
character, showing how that characte
does (or doesn’t) live up to the name
Good luck, and please feel free to
contact me at any time. I’d love to see
what comes of these prompts and
answer any questions you might have
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~Laura
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***1***
Amulet: an object worn to ward off
evil, illness or bad luck. Usually anatural object.
Your character has need of an amulet
What does he/she need protectionrom?
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***2***
Talisman: an object worn to attract
power, or to amplify power a personalready possesses. Often a man-made
object.
Your character has finally found aalisman that he/she has been seekin
or decades. What’s the next step?
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***3***
Your character thinks he/she has
ound an amulet to ward off an evilorce that has been chasing him/her,
but discovers instead that the object
s a talisman. What happens next?
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***4***
Your character has spent half of
his/her life searching for a talisman,only to discover that it is, in fact, an
amulet. What happens next?
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***5***
A tall, dark-skinned woman is running
or her life. Behind, the creaturesgiving chase are finally beginning to
catch up. The mist clears, and she
skids to a stop. A deep chasm yawns
before her.
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***6***
Your character finds a little girl hiding
n a closet. She clutches a small doll, adoll that looks an awful lot like your
character.
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***7***
A young student sits in the library,
ong after everyone else has left. Onhe table sits a book, dusty from year
or even decades of neglect. The
student turns to the first page and
reads the first line aloud.
Suddenly, the lights in the library go
dark.
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***8***
A man sits on a café patio, pretending
o read a newspaper. No one in thecafé knows that he’s an android, or
hat he’s been sent to kill the
waitress.
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***9***
Your character lands on a planet
where all of the aliens sing tocommunicate. The language is easy
enough to learn, but your character is
one deaf.
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***10***
Your character is a judge in a murder
rial. The defendant is giving his
estimony when suddenly he
disappears.
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***11***
Write Prompt #10 from the
prosecution’s POV.
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***12***
Write Prompt #10 from the jury’s POV
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***13***
Writing Prompt #10 from the
defendant’s POV.
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***14***
The birth of the son of the king was
highly anticipated.
No one expected the baby to be born
with a lion’s mane and tail.
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***15***
A couple are driving down the road,
arguing. They hit a traffic jam that isback up for miles around a bend in
he road. Unbeknownst to them, a
Tyrannosaurus Rex is blocking the
way, just around the corner.
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***16***
Write a radio broadcast for an
apocalyptic event.
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***17***
Your character wakes up to find that
he/she is a foot tall. Describe yourcharacter’s struggles to get out of bed
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***18***
Write from the POV of a magic sword.
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***20***
Your character is a witch or warlock
who must dance to seal a sacredcircle.
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***21***
Your character is a doctor at a secret
government facility. A geneticallyengineered creature has just escaped
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***22***
Write Prompt #21 from the POV of a
anitor.
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***23***
Write Prompt #21 from the POV of the
creature.
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***24***
An elf has lived his entire life in the
woods, and has never seen a humanbefore. He is walking a familiar path
when he comes across a human camp
What does he see?
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***25***
Your character finds dragon bones in
a cave. What happens when he/shepicks them up?
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***26***
Your character is a ghost who haunts
a train station. Who is he/she? Why iyour character trapped there? What
does your character see?
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***27***
“Oh God,” she thought, looking dow
at her hands. “It’s happening again.”
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***28***
A newlywed couple arrives at their
hotel on their wedding night. They dohe things newlyweds do on their
honeymoon. In the middle of the
night, the bride wakes up to a strange
clicking noise coming from the pillownext to hers.
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***29***
Your character wears a special suit to
work every day. It is painted on beforeach shift, and peeled off at the end
of the day. Why does your character
wear it? Does it protect? Enhance?
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***30***
shara is the goddess of oaths for
several ancient cultures.
magine a civilization where a goddess
s in charge of making sure people
keep their promises. How would shepunish those who broke their word?
Does she take a physical form, or doe
she work unseen?
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***31***
A woman moves into a house, and
begins to notice that certain thingsaround the house (the plants, the
andscaping, the stonework and the
ayout of the house) seem designed to
bring in power and protect the houserom supernatural forces.
Write about how she discovers this
power. Write about how she finds ou
what it’s being protected from.
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***32***
Your character has a violin that, when
played, lulls anyone listening intocomplacency. For years, your
character has used this instrument to
steal from people. But now the army
has asked your character to helphem. They fly your character to the
rontlines and give him/her a
microphone and an amplifier.
Describe the first day on the job.
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***33***
He ran inside and slammed the door.
Silence filled the room. Then, on theother side of the door, an ominous
sound.
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***34***
Your character wakes up to his/her
alarm, and when he/she hits thesnooze button, the alarm shatters.
Your character looks down at his/her
hand and realizes that although it
ooks normal, and doesn’t feel heavy,t’s as hard as stone.
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***35***
She filled a syringe with a black liquid
rom a small bottle. She finds a veinon the corpse’s arm and pushes the
plunger. The corpse opens his white
eyes and turns his gaze to her face.
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***36***
Write Prompt #36 from the corpse’s
POV.
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***38***
Grab a novel close to your desk, open
o the first chapter, and write downhe first five words. Use some or all of
hese words as the title for your next
novel, which is about one of the
ollowing: werewolves, elves, ghosts,aliens or centaurs. Write a blurb for
he back of your new novel. Let loose,
go crazy. SELL your book to the guy orgal standing in the bookstore who jus
picked it up.
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***39***
Cloning humans has been legal for 75
years. Your character hascommissioned a clone from a budget
ab, and is on the way to the main
office to pick it up. Why is your
character so unhappy after picking theclone up?
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***40***
Write Prompt #39 from the POV of the
clone.
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***41***
Your character walks into the mouth
of a cave, torch in hand. From deepwithin comes a low rumble,
reverberating along the dripping
walls.
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***42***
She wore a flashing emerald at her
hroat, and as he looked into hereyes, he realized she was not human.
Not one bit.
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***44***
Write Prompt #43, but replace the
army with a lone bounty hunter.
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***45***
“Sleep well, honey.”
“Goodnight, Mom.” As soon as her
mother closed the door, Elle threwback the covers and stood. She pulled
a bag out from under her bed and
ooked out the window. The moon
was almost as bright as daylight.
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***46***
Your character enters a room, which i
ull of people, carrying a box. Thecrowd, seeing the box, begins to back
away.
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***47***
A woman enters the bedchamber she
shares with her husband, only to findhe head of her lover pickled in a jar
and staring at her from the mantle.
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***48***
Your character has made a watch that
can stop time...
…and it has just been stolen.
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***49***
Your character has just stolen a watch
hat can stop time.
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***50***
A young girl walks around a tree three
imes. With each revolution, theorest around her fades and a new
world takes shape.
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***51***
The Magical Skull of Doom, made of
crystal and found in an archeologicaldig in Belize during the 1920s, is an
artifact shrouded in rumor and myth.
One rumor is that it has a particular
smell, and that anyone standing neart begins to hear chimes and bells.
Your character has just found a crysta
skull (not necessarily at a dig).
Describe this discovery, focusing on
he sounds and smells that come with
t.
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***52***
Surrounded by tall, majestic,
mysterious stones, your character isabout to begin the ritual. The only
hing left to do is to wait for the
moon to rise between the two tallest
stones and spill light across the altar.
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***54***
Using a different name from Prompt
#53, describe a guest of the innmeeting one of the ghosts.
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***55***
Using yet another name from Prompt
#53, tell the story of a woman whoalls in love with one of the ghosts.
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***56***
Using a new name from Prompt #53,
ell the story of a young boy whomoves into the inn when his parents
buy it. Describe his first encounter
with the ghost.
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***57***
The last ghost on your list has a secre
hat she took to her grave (whichhappens to be under the floorboards
n the best suite in the inn). She will
only be free to leave the inn if she can
share that secret with someone.
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***58***
One morning, a little girl and her
brother discover that they can walkhrough the mirror in the hallway.
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***59***
There are four knights in a field.
You’re only allowed to let one of hem live.
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***62***
Science fiction heroes have a lot of
exciting adventures, but they alsomust do normal things, like shop for
groceries, clean their teeth and… get
married.
Describe a wedding set 200 years in
he future.
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***63***
Dolphins sleep unihemispherically,
meaning one side of their brain sleepwhile the other stays awake (this is
how they don’t drown).
magine that your characterexperiences unihemispheric sleep.
He/she can stay up all the time as a
result, and perhaps his/her job or
ifestyle reflects this ability. Describe a
day in the life of your character.
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***64***
Animals were frequently prosecuted
as criminals in medieval courts, oftenor supernatural reasons, but also for
more ‘natural’ crimes, like theft and
murder. A majority of animal
defendants were pigs, most likelybecause they were allowed to roam
reely to forage by their owners. One
sow was convicted of killing an infant,and hanged from the gallows. Her
piglets were also charged as
accessories, but were acquitted
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because of their youth and the bad
nfluence of their mother.
Write from the sow’s point of view,irst or third person. Give her a name,
and feel free to add a supernatural
element. Was she sent by someone to
kill the infant? Was she a human in
pig form, and if so, why didn’t she
change back into a human? Be sure to
nclude her piglets.
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recently gotten into the fad of having
a chicken coops in their backyards,
and it has unfortunately attracted a
cockatrice. Write about a town
meeting where they discuss the
damage the cockatrice has done, and
how they’re going to get rid of it.
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Aelurophobia is a deathly fear of cats
Your character has aelurophobia in a
world where hyper-intelligent cats
have taken over.
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***67***
Your character is an executioner who
must execute the queen. Pick one (ormore): the executioner has been
bribed; the queen is not the real
queen; the executioner is not the rea
executioner.
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Geomancy (in Arabic, “science of the
sand”) is a method of divination usedor centuries, and perhaps most
amously by Napoleon.
Your character is using sand to divinehe future. Options for this prompt:
colored sand, sand inside glass,
standing in a desert, water or other
iquid poured on or pooling in the
sand, divination by the seaside.
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embroil, v: to throw into disorder or
confusion; to involve in conflict ordifficulties.
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chimera, n: an imaginary monster
compounded of incongruous parts.
Quickly, create a list of six animals.
Using a die, choose an animal for the
head, the body, and then the tail of your chimera.
Your character comes across the
chimera you’ve created in a forestnear his/her village while collecting
medicinal plants.
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***72***
Using the list you made for Prompt
#71, role the die again and create anew chimera.
Your character comes across the new
chimera you’ve created in a back alleyof a major metropolitan city while
walking to work.
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***73***
Using the list you made for Prompt
#71, role the die again and create anew chimera.
Set this story about 50-75 years in the
uture. Your character comes acrosshe chimera after breaking into a lab
hat sells genetic modifications to the
public.
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***74***
While entering a sacred, ancient city,
your character passes beneath acolossal statue of a man, which guard
he city, only to discover that the
statue is alive.
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***75***
Your character is a young Egyptian
slave whose task is to bring water andood to the other slaves building the
pyramids, as well as the engineers an
overseers. While bringing a basket of
ood to the engineers one evening,your character overhears them
speaking to the starmen, who came
rom the sky in a great ship, and whoare showing them how to build the
giant structures.
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***76***
She reached into the bowl of cherries
and picked up one ripe, cool, plumpspecimen. The first bite sent a flood o
sweet and slightly tangy juice into her
mouth. She pulled the pit from her
ips and held it between two longingers. The pit was glowing, with
potential, with purpose, with life…
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***77***
Your character is the captain of a
cargo ship. In addition to the goodsbeing shipped, the vessel has taken
on three passengers: two scientists se
on studying marine life, and a
mysterious widow who stays in hercabin and speaks to no one.
The ship is attacked by a large sea
monster on the third day at sea. Writ
rom the captain’s POV.
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***78***
Write Prompt #77 from a scientist’s
POV.
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***79***
Write Prompt #77 from the widow’s
POV.
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***80***
Your character is riding on the
shoulders of a steam-powered robot.Focus your writing on sights and
sounds.
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Write about a conflict between a devi
and an angel, but in your story, thedevil is the hero.
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***82***
Many fantasy novels feature games
nvented by the author for thecharacters to play. Write a scene in
which your characters are playing a
game. Don’t try to decide what the
rules are before you start writing;nvent the rules as you go.
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***83***
Write Prompt #82 in a science fiction
setting.
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***84***
Write about a warrior queen heading
nto battle. Give her a weapon and abattle animal.
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Write about a president who is so
crazy he doesn’t even know he’spresident. Surround him with
handlers who keep things running. Se
he story 150 years in the future.
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***86***
Ancient cultures used makeup for
more than just beauty. They wore eyeshadow to ward off blindness,
eyeliner to ward off evil, and lipstick
o protect against poison.
n a fantasy setting, describe your
character applying makeup that gives
him/her special abilities: protective,
strengthening, clairvoyant, etc.
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Take the history from Prompt #86 and
apply it to a science fiction setting.Describe your character applying
makeup that is scientifically designed
o serve a purpose: protective,
offensive, recreational, etc.
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ares and penates, n. pl. : household
gods.
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apwing, n : from Old English “leap”
and “wink,” a crested Old Worldplover noted for slow, irregular
lapping wings and a shrill, wailing cry
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“In the magical universe there are no
coincidences and there are noaccidents. Nothing happens unless
someone wills it to happen.”
~William S. Burrough
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n France, it was once against the law
o say “violet” out loud.
Create a world where saying “violet”
out loud has extreme consequences.
Then have your character say it.
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magine a world where the bird flu is
pervasive and destructive disease, anhumans have taken matters into their
own hands. Your character mans a
machine that pulls flocks of birds from
he sky. Be sure to describe themachines and how they work.
Things to think about: a world
without birds, the reactions of
environmentalists, ornithologists,
birdwatchers and hunters, the species
hat were prey to birds that no longer
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Some historians believe that the
centaur myth came about when tribewho did not have horses (and had
probably never seen horses) met up
with tribes that rode on horseback.
Your character is out hunting for his
village (on horseback) when he/she
spies what looks like a man on
horseback. As your character gets
closer, it slowly dawns on him/her
hat there is something unusual abou
he way the rider is sitting on the
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***95***
More than 700 people world-wide
have a hookworm in their bodies.
magine a world where these worms
are all in communication with one
another, and that they possesscurrently dormant) mind-control
abilities. They await only a critical
mass of infestation to begin
conquering the world, and one final
human is about to become infected…
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***96***
He grabbed a fistful of salt and turned
o face the beast behind him.
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Describe a world where human’s shed
heir skin like a snake. Do they do it inprivate, like other bathroom
unctions? Is it more public, like
coughing or sneezing? Are some
people ashamed? Are there contestsor the most-intact skin?
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***98***
“I find the medicine worse than the
malady.”
~John Fletche
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Scholars believe that throwing
pennies into a well for good luck goes
back to the Mayans, who used to
hrow maidens into wells and springso appease the spirits who lived there
Write from the POV of a spirit in a
spring. You can set the story in thepast or in modern times, or (because
spirits are timeless) describe
housands of years in the life of yourspirit. Are these gifts welcome? What
does the spirit think of them?
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***100***
They invited her in because it was
raining and she looked cold. Theyoffered her supper because it was late
and she looked hungry. They asked
her to say the blessing because they
were friendly and she wore a cross.But when she opened her mouth, no
one recognized the strange, terrible
words she said.
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***101***
Parthenogenesis is when an
unfertilized egg spontaneously splitsand develops into a pregnancy,
without the necessity of “male input.”
A German woman, who claimed to be
a virgin, experience parthenogenesisduring World War II. When doctors
ested her child, they found it to be
genetically a twin to the woman, andhey suggested that it was the shock
of the bombing that caused the egg to
split.
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magine a world where women can
experience parthenogenesis under a
much lighter amount of shock.
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