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[bironic]

It's been exactly a month since I've written anything, and I have four fics due in the next six weeks that currently consist of blank Word documents. I am thinking trying something short today/tomorrow might be successful. Anyone have prompts to offer?

Disclaimer: I don't know what kind of prompts might work, and there are no guarantees that anything will be written. But I'd appreciate any help!

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[roga.livejournal.com]

I just signed up for Remix! What the hell am I doing?

Ahem, so, what kind of prompts do you want? Emotions, characters, songs, images?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I dunno! What've you got?

And, yay overextending ourselves with Remix!

[roga.livejournal.com]

A couple random ones, then:

-one
-two
-three
-four
-five
-or one of the following Pratchett quotes:
*Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
*The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
*He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hee! Two makes me laugh. One and five are cool too. I can't see three or four, but that's still a lot to go on. Thanks!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Question prompts, which I always think are fun and thought-provoking:

1. “Why should I? You’ll just disappear again.”

2. “Don’t shoot the messenger.”

“That’s what Galileo told the pope. See how well it worked out for him?”

3. “Exactly how much alcohol is this going to take?”

“More than you’ve got here.”

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. 2 & 3 would make for some nice, lighthearted, bantery stuff. Thanks!

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

One (http://pics.livejournal.com/hannahrorlove/pic/0030e2x3)
Two (http://pics.livejournal.com/hannahrorlove/pic/0031a5hd)
Three (http://pics.livejournal.com/hannahrorlove/pic/0031b7t5)
Four (http://pics.livejournal.com/hannahrorlove/pic/0031ctt9)
Five (http://pics.livejournal.com/hannahrorlove/pic/005697kk)

1. "That's not what you said yesterday."
2. From XKCD: "It turns out you can't take responsibility for someone else's happiness."

1. In The Meantime by Brian Perry (http://www.sendspace.com/file/mr1lbx)
2. Oh Yeah by The Divine Comedy (http://www.sendspace.com/file/obqlku)
3. Maybe Sparrow by Neko Case (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ic0ye1)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Mm, moody photos. We'll see if I can do something with one of those. And will give those songs a listen when I get home later. Thank you!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Try this: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/hawaiian-volcanoes-beauty-terror.html

And check out musecrack.

[jdr1184.livejournal.com]

*Points to icon
Beautiful Boys
http://quest.sasktelwebhosting.com/slideshow.html

The artist is Steve Walker. I love his painting not just for the pretty boys but the somber mood.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is a lot of art.

"A Matter Of Taste" just smacks of House feeding Wilson, don't you think? And a few of them look like John Sheppard. Hmmm.

[jdr1184.livejournal.com]

I love that one. I think "Parallel Dreams" is my favorite. *Points to icon* Under my porn shell, is a complete an utter sap. :)

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. You like sestinas, so maybe a specific form - like trying to write something with a set number of words (like 100) or in which you have to use certain words - would help you get going. You could try writing an all-dialogue fic where the first line is one word long, the response is two words, the third line is three words, and so on - working up to ten words, and then working back down to one word.

Some random assortments of words (taken from looking at my bookshelf - don't ask):

1. cook, global, investigate, potpourri, cat
2. revolution, necropolis, guide, campus, constant
3. strength, coup, Greece, journey, ancient
4. control, Cairo, seven, dark, insult

And a few quotes:

"I did not realise for a long time that I was dead. And that reminds me of a story." - Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy

"That I relish dryness is not strange." - Allen Massie, Tiberius

"All men dream, but not equally." - T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[bironic.livejournal.com]

You know me too well.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

prompts from D., to keep everything in one place:


Room service

copper

If you don't get off my lap, I can't be held responsible.

Held Responsible

seagreen (one word or two)

Ancient Egypt


Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowler

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"