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The Prompt Thread

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The Prompt Thread

Postby marianas on Sat May 17, 2008 5:47 am

If you don't know where to start or just want a new idea, here there will (hopefully) be what you are looking for.

Please add to it. We're looking for titles, vague ideas, or brief prompts

[title] The Druid of Lonesome Isle
[title] Still Life with Chainsaw

[character] an assassin who kills with CDs
[character] a failing college student
[character] a god of the underworld
[character] a band of intergalactic space traders

[setting/premise] halfway through a cup of coffee
[setting/premise] after saying "I don't" at the altar
[setting/premise] during a summer lightning storm
[setting/premise] in a haunted space station orbiting Pluto
[setting/premise] after crash-landing in the desert
[setting/premise] at a sci-fi convention
[setting/premise] awakened from a 1000 year sleep
[setting/premise] after receiving bionic implants
[setting/premise] with only one week left to live
[setting/premise] deep in the sewers of Paris
[setting/premise] in a post-atomic city
[setting/premise] after escaping from prison
[setting/premise] fleeing from an angry mob
[setting/premise] under cover of darkness

[prompt] someone can only be seen by toddlers
[prompt] someone joins a group of undercover magicians
[prompt] someone must smuggle druids accross the border
[prompt] someone hotwires an abandoned hot air balloon
[prompt] someone switches suitcases with a mafia hitman
[prompt] someone buys an unreliable time machine
[prompt] someone befriends a young runaway with a secret

(so I'm not plagarizing: most of these came from the plot machine at www.scriptfrenzy.org )
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Postby Figment on Sat May 17, 2008 6:15 am

This thread is a wonderful idea!

This one was a typo on Trin's part in msn, she meant Wonderland... But it got me to thinking...

[title] Alice in Water
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Postby DarkWaltz on Sat May 17, 2008 2:19 pm

Ooo, these are fun! I especially like "After saying 'I don't'" :)
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