Prompt me!

[meganbmoore]

Those of you who have known me long enough may remember that around 2000-2001(maybe as late as 2002) I tried my hand at writing.  Not fanfic-I gave that up at around 17 or so-but original fic.  But then the perils of being an English major with philosophy and psychology as double minors (full minors, not a split minor) took over my life, and I was, at any point in time, working on 2-3 papers for school with no time to write anything for myself, and when I finally graduated two years ago, the thought of writing when I didn't have to gave me hives.  (For that matter, I had no time to read.  A Regency or category romance could take me a week and a half, if not longer.  I remember that it took me a month to read an Elizabeth Peters book at one point.  Probably why I started reading so much manga.  I could squeeze in time for manga and comics.  I also remember that it took me a week to watch the first disc of Wolf's Rain.)

But back to the point!

The last few weeks, I've been kind of wanting to write again, but having trouble thinking of anything where I thought I'd actually be happy with a result.

So, anyone want to give me prompts to see if anything can get me motivated?  If fanfic instead of original fic, I doubt I could write anything but canon based gen or crackfic.

Somebody could also try to get me to write that Saiyuki crackfic I keep not being able to start where Kougaiji and Sanzo learn that Gojyo taught Goku and Lirin strip poker.

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Cool Bits Story Generator to the rescue!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

...Or maybe not.

This narrative is about transformation. It starts in the space behind the tapestry with someone with command presence. The antagonist is a commanding officer and the plot involves elements like fingers sliding under clothing and pizza.

It begins with a caring mentor in Ruritania. This person meets a tall man in a dark Armani suit and together they encounter a complicated caper plot and military ethics. The story winds up in the Barbary Coast and features violets. The overall narrative is a supernatural mystery.

It starts in Meiji Japan, with a tainted soul. The antagonist is a person who lives on the edge of society and the plot involves elements like reincarnation and unexpected darkness.

The story begins in a souk, when a nice guy who doesn't finish last and a lady who is not what she seems meet because of assumptions. It contains metanarrative. The antagonist is motivated out of personal loyalty.


This story begins as a boy in a shirt with a collar loose enough to show his collarbones investigates a mystery about resentful attraction. Clues include secrets within secrets and a mirror that reflects truth and lies. The villain is revealed to be a stolen child, and is motivated because they desperately want a family.

Your story begins with an educated courtesan in Ruritania. The villain is a snarky girl who has a complicated necklace. Plot elements include dying and sensously described food.

This story begins as a Roman legionnary investigates a mystery about a fan used to communicate messages. Clues include breaking down and screaming and ambiguity. The villain is revealed to be a person without a home.

It begins with an awkward femme fatale in a library. This person meets a shapechanger and together they encounter inheritance and the undoing of many buttons. The story winds up in Meiji Japan and features interruptions. The overall narrative contains metafiction and tricks of style.

The story begins in a bazaar, when a damaged warrior and a scapegoat who brings others down with them meet because of military ethics. It contains the non-human as genuinely strange and incomprehensible. The antagonist is not motivated because they just love to blow shit up.

Your story is a romance between a technical whiz and an intelligent person. The lovers experience characters who get where they're going by hard work, persistence, and intelligence, not by having Cool Talents handed to them on a golden platter and repeatedly misused or mispronounced words while in a ballroom full of swishing skirts and duplicity. One of them is motivated because of an addiction to drama.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde, and/or Jean Grey | "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one." - Chinese proverb

here's a random prompt found in my text file of random prompts!

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

return my heart when I am dead

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

What drives a man to madness?

Omg strip poker. Yes of course.

[artillie.livejournal.com]

- two teenage girls sitting around and talking about something that doesn't involve guys. And make it exciting.

And I checked this book out from the library called The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood (books on writing are my sinful guilty pleasure), so here's some of the prompts from it.

- Create a set of circumstances in which an otherwise reasonable person would indeed cry over spilled milk.

- A man and a woman, unrelated, are trying to get a child down from a tree.

- Write about an appliance, a weapon, or a vehicle being put to a use for which it was not designed.

- Write about a long, fraught ride in a car.

- A character arrives at work to find that her chair is missing. What happened to it?

I don't know how helpful those are. And I've always sort of wanted to see you write Kyo/Yuya fic, crack or otherwise, if only because you have them so well thought out. I think you could do it. Write, for example, what happens just after Yuya flies into Kyo's arms in the last chapter. Don't make it involve molestation (or, you know, if you want to, go ahead).