Dragon Writing Prompts

Here’s the set up:

Two Chinese lovers are traveling to Europe
in a damp meadow.
The smell of saffron fills the air;
someone with horns approaches

Take it from there.

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The idea was generated by “Writer’s Idea Bank“, which is a widget for a Google Homepage. I don’t see anything at the website that allows you to generate more. You just need to install the widget on a Google homepage and refresh.

One of the following was overheard at a coffee shop. Use it to inspire the real story behind the statement or what the effect was on the one who overheard.

“I was raised by two lesbians in drag.”
“Come on, come on, listen to the mommy dogs.”
“Silence like a casserole.”
“I was Barney Rubble.”
“I will be your creature feature, anything you have in mind.”

From “He’s Got the Whole World in his Pants and More Misheard Lyrics” by Gavin Edwards. Click on the comments for the actual lyrics.

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Though you can see it from everywhere in the city, people won’t speak of it and it’s airbrushed from official photos. Set a story there.

(When you’re done, if you want to see the tale of the real building, click the picture.)

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Two childhood best friends: KaiKai is outgoing, Eilian reserved. They decide to form a group and bring in two others to round out their talents: Gan and Rio. (It can be any group you want: fighters for hire, monster slayers, fortune tellers, musicians, dancers, samurai, exterminators, party hosts …) KaiKai and Eilian have eyes for talent and the two new members’ talents overshadow the two founding members’.

Gan and KaiKai discover their talents mesh exceptionally well and form a tight partnership when they work together. Eilian prefers to hang back and work in the background, but is there jealousy rumbling beneath? After the group has been together for a while, it gets out that the other new member, Rio, is of a reviled faction (religion, race, planet, philosophy, culture, heritage …) but he or she has such charisma those who hire them don’t mind. (But will it last?)

They haven’t had a job for a bit and are getting hungry for work (and for a substantial meal.) Tempers are short.

Write from the point of view of one of the members. Or from each in turn.

Though the Weekly World News is no more, here’s the headlines from the archives of City Newstand in Chicago, for writing prompts or just for fun :-)

Top 10 Tabloid Headlines from MAY 1998

1. DOG SWALLOWS SHEEP — SUN
2. Porcupine falls head over heels in love — with a broom! — WWN
3. One-armed man fights off monkey with fake limb! — WWN
4. WERERABBITS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN WEREWOLVES! — WWN
5. IRAQI TEENS GETTING HIGH ON ANTHRAX GERMS! — WWN
6. Elvis fan has the King’s JOCK STRAP! — WWN
7. Used-car salesman is buried in fireproof suit — so he won’t burn in HELL! — WWN
8. Police find dead woman in giant ball of string! — WWN
9. BIZARRE DISEASE TURNS PEOPLE INTO HUMAN SNAKES! — WWN
10. Wonder drug makes people bulletproof! — WWN

Probably not the quote he wanted remembered for, but it has obviously been speaking to people for over a millennium and a half. ;-)

Use the quote as the first line, last line, somewhere in the middle or just for inspiration. (Did I cover all the possibilities? ;-)

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
– Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)