Dragon Writing Prompts

October 30, 2009

Punny Costumes

I should have guessed there would be lists of costumes based on puns on the internet! Once I started gathering, I couldn’t stop. :-) If you’d like to guess what they are, you can reveal the answer by highlighting the line.

Gathered from around the internet, particularly Pun Intended: Costumes with a Punch Line.

  • Get a bunch of watches and tie them around your waist, like a belt. Waste of Time
  • Pin a bunch of sponges to your clothes. Self-Absorbed
  • Wear pale blue and pin cotton batting to it in random places. Carry a small spray bottle filled with water. Partly Cloudy With A Chance of Showers
  • Wear all black and attach to your clothes things like chewed up gum, candy wrappers, popcorn, empty paper cups, etc. Floor of a Movie Theatre
  • Go as a purple pumpkin. The Grape Pumpkin
  • Attach stuffed dogs and cats to an umbrella. Raining Cats and Dogs
  • Attach a P to your shirt and paint your eye black. Black-eyed Pea
  • Attach 7 Cs to your shirt. (Or do it with 7 friends each wearing a C.) The Seven Seas.
  • Don a pig mask, wrap yourself in a blanket. Pig in a Blanket
  • Attach arms to a coat. Coat of Arms
  • Attach fake hair to your arms, chest and neck, carry a flower pot filled with dirt and a little shovel. Hairy Potter
  • Attach a bunch of (small) cereal boxes to your shirt with plastic knives stuck in them. Cereal Killer
  • Wear a BIG band-aid on your butt. Pain in the Ass
  • Attach a yellow circle to your stomach. Add some devil horns and a pitch fork. Deviled Egg
  • Wear a gold outfit, gold accessories, gold hair, carry a shovel. Gold Digger
  • Attach a dollar to each ear. Buck-an-Ear
  • Strap a doll to your rear-end and sit on it. Babysitter
  • Wear a brimmed cap with a leaf (or snowflake) dangling down in front of your face. When someone asks what you are, blow on the leaf (or snowflake). Leaf Blower or Snow Blower
  • Carry a quarter and a hammer. If someone asks what your costume is, put the quarter down and pound it with the hammer. Quarter Pounder
  • Attach a throw rug to your head. Carry a broom. Swept Under the Rug
  • Drench yourself in water and carry around two sticks, a scarf and a carrot. Melted Snowman
  • Cut out a large “1″. Cut a hole in the middle of the 1. Attach it to your chest. Hole in One
  • Put “Hello my name is…” tags with random names all over your body. Multiple Personalities
  • Attach a pack of Tic Tacs to the tip of your shoe. Tic Tac Toe
  • Pin men’s underwear to your shirt front. Chest of Drawers
  • Dress as a girl. Form a large arrow pointing up with safety pins. Pin Up Girl
  • Wear all black, and attach a postage stamp to your chest. Black Mail
  • Dress up as a present. Attach a tag that says “From: God, To: Women.” God’s Gift to Women
  • Attach large labels that say “Shirt: $30…Jeans: $50…Shoes: $70……Halloween costume that took minimal effort: Priceless. Mastercard Ad
  • Glue a poker chip to your shoulder. Chip on Your Shoulder
  • Carry a toy aircraft in a basket. Aircraft Carrier
  • Write “Go Ceilings!” on the front of your shirt. Add other gear (pom poms, big foam finger, etc.) Cheer! Ceiling Fan
  • Tie a computer CD around your neck and carry a lighter. When someone asks what you are, hold the lighter up to the CD. CD burner
  • Attach dollars to stars on your shirt (or make dollars into origami stars). Starbucks
  • Attach a guitar pick to your pocket. Pick Pocket
  • Attach pictures of Robert De Niro all over yourself. Mucho Dinero
  • Dress as a man. Tape an “E” on your chest. “E”-male
  • Carry fake eye balls. When someone asks you what Halloween costume you’re wearing, drop them on the floor. Eye Drops
  • Wear buttons and carry signs that say “Devil is #1″ and “Vote for Satan,” etc.. Devil’s Advocate
  • Write the number 3.1415926 on an orange pumpkin shape. Attach it to your shirt. Pumpkin Pie
  • Attach some quarters to hairclips, and place in your hair. Headquarters
  • Attach an empty M&M candy wrapper to your chest. Eminem the Rapper!
  • Attach white trash to yourself. White Trash
  • Carry several bags filled with construction paper “B”s. Bee Keeper
  • Wear all black clothes. Cut out big, bright numbers and attach them to your clothes. Someone You Can Count On
  • Tape a quarter to your back. Quarterback
  • Attach a quarter to your back and a dollar to each ear. Quarter back for the Buckaneers
  • Wear a nice suit. Attach legal documents all over yourself. Lawsuit
  • Carry a stuffed dog. When someone asks about your costume, throw the dog up and catch it. Dog Catcher
  • Wear a name tag that says “Susan.” Paint your eyes black. Black-eyed Susan
  • Wear a bra on the outside of your shirt and attach the letter “Z” to it. Zebra
  • Wear a name tag that says “Johnny”. Cut a circle out of cardboard or plastic, big enough to stand on. When someone asks you what you are, throw the circle on the floor and stand on it. Johnny on the Spot
  • Attach a large brown “E” to your chest. Brown-E (Brownie)
  • Take two round circles of brown fake fur and attach them to the back of your pants.. “Bear” Bum!
  • Attach an empty bag of Wise potato chips to the back of your pants. Wise Ass
  • Tape a disposable razor to your back. Razorback
  • Wear pink clothes. Add a name tag that says “Floyd.” Pink Floyd
  • Dress in normal clothes and carry a sign that says “Strike.” Nudist on Strike
  • Attach a nickel to your back. Nickelback
  • Wear a large garbage bag over your body. Attach a large letter “T” to the front. Tea Bag
  • Make the letter “I” out of cardboard, write “Beauty” on it, and attach it to your shirt. Carry a beer. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beerholder
  • Wear a pot on your head. Pot Head
  • Put a picture frame around your neck and sign your shirt. Self Portrait
  • Carry a small dumbbell. Stare at it intently when asked what you are. Weight Watcher
  • Attach a large picture of yourself to the front of your shirt. “Stuck on Myself”
  • Wear an extra-large bra over your clothes. Stuff it with jars of spices. Spice Rack
  • Attach Smarties candies all over your pants. Smarty Pants
  • Dress up as a bug and a lady. Lady Bug
  • Attach stuffed animals (and horseshoe magnets) to yourself. Animal Magnetism
  • Attach chicks to yourself. Chick Magnet
  • Wear a slip with Freud written across the front. Freudian Slip
  • Dress as a basketball player. Wear 2 large donuts around your middle. (Even better with 2 people, each wearing a donut.) Dunkin’ Donuts
  • Put peas or peapods all over you. “I Come in Peace.”
  • Color your neck red. Redneck
  • Dress as a bunny and carry a feather duster. Dust Bunny
  • Dress as monk and carry chips. Chipmunk
  • Attach a bunch of green Ns and Vs all over you. Green with Envy
  • Wear scrubs with pepper packets attached. Dr. Pepper
  • Dress as a cat. Attach trash you’d find on the street. Kitty Litter
  • Dress in black. Attach a strip of yellow tape from right shoulder to right ankle and left shoulder to left ankle. (And a dotted line down the middle if you wish.) Attach a fork to your chest. Fork in the Road
  • Dress as a star made out of “rock”. Rock Star
  • Dress in a somber suit, attach women’s panties, tucked into pockets. “Undy Taker.”
  • Dress as a bat or Batman. Carry a customer service bell. Ding Bat
  • Write “Bless You” on your shirt. Wear nose glasses. Blessing in Disguise
  • Attach fake thumbs to all your fingers. All Thumbs
  • Attach a picture of an anchor to your chest. Anchorman or Anchorwoman
  • Drag a picture of the Queen of England or a Queen CD. Drag Queen
  • Paint your face white and draw a musical staff and notes on it. Face the Music
  • Attach a chick (or picture of a chick) to your hip. Hip Chick
  • Dress in shades of green. Attach a bottle of dressing to your side. Mixed Greens with Dressing on the Side
  • Attach a pink I to your chest. Pink Eye
  • Carry knives, splash yourself with fake blood. Attach a B to your chest. Killer Bee
  • Drip fake blood on yourself. Wear a “Mary” name tag. Bloody Mary
  • Wear hospital scrubs, under a brown hooded cloak, carry a light saber and a speculum. OB-GYN Kenobi
  • Wear an orange toga with a laurel crown. Orange Julius
  • Wear bat wings with a baseball uniform. Baseball Bat
  • One half of the couple wears an army shirt, and the other half wears army pants. Digestive Tract (upper and lower GI)
  • Wear nerdy glasses, a toga, and a pocket protector. Geek Goddess
  • Pin socks all over your normal clothes and SMILE. When people ask, flash a manic grin. Ecstatic Cling
  • Cut out many pictures of porpoises. Fan them out around your face with a headscarf. All Porpoise Flower
  • Get a Scott Baio mask or print out a picture of his face. Dress as a wolf. Beowolf
  • Guy dressed in a maid’s costume. Trans-janitor
  • Dress as a bee. Attach words to you. When people ask, spell the words. Spelling Bee
  • Wear a trench coat. Inside attach lots of flowers. When people ask, look around as though being secretive then flash open the coat. The Secret Garden
  • Dress as Gene Simmons of Kiss with a French beret. French Kiss
  • Dress as a skeleton. Carry a bell. Dead Ringer
  • Hang a Welcome sign around your neck. Wearing Out Your Welcome
  • Carry Zs around in a fish or butterfly net. Catching Some Zs
  • Dress as a poop with angel wings. Holy Shit
  • Dress up as a cow (horns, bell, udder) and angel wings and halo. Holy Cow!
  • Wear normal clothing and tell everyone, “I’m a homicidal maniac. We look just like everyone else.”

October 29, 2009

Death of the party

Come up with a zombie party plan — for real zombies. Invitations (date, time, place). Special instructions for guests (as in bring your own brains, dress). Food. Games.

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October 27, 2009

Gaggle of giggling ghoul girls

For each letter of the alphabet write a sentence that’s ghoulishly alliterative.



A bit overkill for this ;-) but as I searched for a link for the picture, I found Wikipedia’s List of monsters by culture.

Like Star Wars? Like zombies? Click the picture. :-)

October 1, 2009

Good eats!

Pick your favorite recipe. Your character has been planning to create this dish for quite some time as a special event or celebration. The dish can be grand but needn’t be — like the last ballpark hotdog with relish eaten with Dad, the “special” last maggoty meal the evil overlord served his prisoners — but it’s emotionally tied into the character or someone the character feels strongly toward and holds some special importance. Each ingredient has been carefully chosen or overseen from its beginning.

As you go through each ingredient, have your character talk about where it came from, why and what its importance is. Maybe they’re far from home — a ship? another planet? an alternate universe? — and the ingredients aren’t easy to come by.

Then describe what it’s for. It could be something sweet :-) It could be twisted Wherever it leads you.

February 3, 2009

Frosty fennel frappes

For each letter of the alphabet create a frozen drink name (alliterative if it helps your imagination).

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January 22, 2009

Horse blizzard

Use all of the words on each line in a sentence. Use any order and feel free to changes tenses and word forms.

Make the sentences evocative of winter.

  • stripes — terrific — distant — emperor — barely — horse — blizzard
  • valley — slimy — boulder — vanish — ignorance — sly — rust
  • modified — laugh — salty — drooled — crusty — attitude — flammable
  • wander — slimy — past — crafty — bumpy — dictator — dependable
  • luxury — sliding — jerk — stuffy — rainy — visitor — tattered

January 6, 2009

Road work ahead



New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

— Mark Twain




Okay, it’s now a week after the New Year’s resolutions and they lay discarded like the streamers and empty champagne bottles.

We all supply our own material that paves our way to hell, whether that be “good intentions” or evil works. But we don’t do the paving. There’s a devil who’s job it is to do the actual work. (Or is it a different devil each year?)

He or she has had the yearly week of rest while everyone tries to maintain their resolutions but now the bricks of our foibles and weaknesses are being delivered and he or she places them as paving bricks on the Road to Hell.

So, who is the devil? How and why did he or she get the job? What would happen if we all became good?

December 25, 2008

Bloggering

Take a bizarre happening (that later turned out to be extraordinary) and write about it with an eye for the absurd. Some suggestions: Visitor to some baby born in a stable. Neighbor watching Noah build a friggin’ boat in his back yard. A couple of nerds named Steve thinking they can build a computer in their garage.



More contemporary world than usual, but the card still has me chuckling. You can see more of Dave Malki’s cards. (Click on each one to open.) He also uploads a comic each Tuesday and Friday. You can also see just his Holiday Comics from Years Past.

And here’s something from the Churches Advertising Network’s 2007 Christmas campaign while you wait for people to get moving so you can open presents. Funny and irreverent but not offensive. (Well it was Church advertisement!)


December 24, 2008

Christmas songs for shrinks

Schizophrenia: Do You Hear What I Hear

Multiple Personality: We Three Queens Disoriented Are!

Narcissism: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing About Me!

Dementia: I Think I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Paranoia: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town To Get Me

Mania: Deck The Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town

Depression: Silent Anhedonia, Holy Anhedonia, All is Flat, All is Lonely

Personality Disorder: You Better Watch Out, I’m Going to Cry, I’m Going to Pout, then maybe I’ll tell you why!

Obsessive Compulsive: Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell Swing Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock

Suicidal: Thoughts of Roasting On an Open Fire

Passive Aggressive: On the First Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me (then took away)

- Unknown

If you’d like to play around with some Christmas song titles while you wait for relatives, or to play in your head as you listen to Aunt Bethelda’s sixth retelling of her colonoscopy, Wikipedia has a list of Christmas Carols , non-religious Christmas songs , secular songs associated with Christmas . Here are the most common ones (or ones I recognize anyway):

“Angels We Have Heard on High”
“Away in a Manger”
“Deck the Halls”
“Do You Hear What I Hear?”
“The First Nowell”Go Tell It on the Mountain”
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
“Good King Wenceslas”
“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
“Here We Come A-Wassailing”
“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
“I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)”
“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”
“Joy to the World”
“The Little Drummer Boy” (”Carol of the Drum”)
“O Holy Night”
“O Little Town of Bethlehem”
“O Tannenbaum” (”O Christmas Tree”)
“Silent Night” (”Stille Nacht! heilige Nacht!”)
“The Twelve Days of Christmas”
“We Wish You A Merry Christmas”
“We Three Kings Of Orient Are” (”Three Kings of Orient”)
“What Child Is This?”

“A Holly Jolly Christmas”
“All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”
“The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
“Feliz Navidad”
“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
“It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas”
“It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
“Silver and Gold”
“Silver Bells”
“(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays”
“Toyland”
“Up On the House Top”
“White Christmas”

“Frosty the Snowman”
“Jingle Bell Rock”
“Jingle Bells”
“Let It Snow”
“Winter Wonderland”

I will not suggest you try the games listed at Poop Wars where you replace one of the words with poop or add “in bed” or “under the sheets” after the title. That would be just too irreverent, regardless of the fact that a preacher’s daughter told me she did the “under the sheets” one with hymns to entertain herself during services.

Happy Holidays!

December 23, 2008

On Comet!

The idea of Santa has spread with humanity into space onto alien worlds. Santa was already taxed to the max trying to deliver all the presents to the earthlings. Now he finds the task impossible. In fact he frightens some of the children on other planets with his naked pink skin and the fuzzy white growth on his face. What’s the solution? Pick one planet, or come up with a master plan.

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December 21, 2008

“The most essential gift …”

December 18, 2008

Winter crime watch

Write a winter crime report about a snowman.
Paste it in at The Newspaper Clipping Generator or Create Fake Newspaper Clippings. (The second generated two different styles at one time, but only one works at the moment.)

Come up with a name for your newspaper, a title, then click Generate! and create a fake newspaper clipping.

Wing it or if you need some words to get started, try these:

chill
glittering
stab
mire

(There are several more generators at the fodey site. I especially like the clapboard. He also has The Generator Blog (over 1000, listed down the left side). Featured at the time of this post, the Self Cutting generator.)

November 27, 2008

Thankful for minor disasters

If your character experienced just the worst parts of Thanksgiving day, he or she would need a week to recover from the holiday. But all ended happily.

What was the surprising good that came from each incident, or the really big good that came out of the whole series?

If you find a more inspiring order as you’re writing, go for it, but make it easier on yourself by using the order given or choosing randomly rather than seeking some “best” order. Your character didn’t get to choose! ;-)

  • lost keys
  • burnt dinner
  • missing relative
  • flooded basement
  • hail storm
  • broken finger
  • lost power
Happy Thanksgiving!

February 14, 2008

What we love

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

So many possibilities! An object? A person? An idea? A moral tale? An immoral tale?

January 6, 2008

Writer’s New Year’s resolution quote

Q-readalot

January 1, 2008

You must remember this …

reflection.jpgRather than project forward, have a favorite character (yours or someone else’s, good guy or bad guy) reflect back on what they did right last year.

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December 25, 2007

M.E.R.R.Y. C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S.

our-saviors_birthday_you-en.jpgMerry Christmas! Here’s something to do while you wait for everyone else to get up so you can open your presents :-)

What if the following were acronyms? What would they stand for? They can deal with Christmas or not, you decide.

NOEL
SANTA
SNOW
STAR
ANTICIPATION

And here’s a present for you Star Trek fans: New Star Trek episodes.

Considering everyone’s doing this for free just for love of Star Trek, they aren’t bad. (Try one of the newer ones to begin.) The special effects are quite good and George Takei gets to show off his sword skills in World Enough and Time :-)

Hope your day is a joyous one!

December 20, 2007

A stork, onion rings, and some building blocks

stork_blocks_onion_rings.jpgWrite a holiday or seasonal story using one of the following sets of objects:

  • A stork, onion rings, and some building blocks.
  • A gumdrop, a pair of snowshoes, and a bucket of sand.
  • A can of soda, a romance novel, and a rubber animal nose.
  • A new puppy, a silver bell, and a disguise.
  • A cardboard box, an old car, and some peppermint candy.
Words generated at Random Writing Prompt Generators where there are several writing prompt generators.

December 18, 2007

A not so wintry tale

wind.jpgUse as many of the following words as you can in a piece (story, song, poem or whatever you come up with!) that isn’t about winter or the holidays.

blustery
drifts
blizzard
dormant
mitten
frost
crystals
gifts
snowflake
pine
frozen
solstice
wind
wool
candle
spirit

November 22, 2007

Be thankful

thanksgivingtree.jpgYou know those trees with the handprint leaves you write something to be thankful for on? Your favorite Evil Dude (E.D.) has been inspired to create one. Of course he’ll use severed hands instead of construction paper and carve his message with a fresh craft knife rather than use crayon.

So, what’s he thankful for? Make a list.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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May 1, 2007

Death becomes her

skullwithbraids.jpg Enough poetry for a bit!

Write a eulogy that the bad guy has written for the good guy. Death can be the bad guy’s doing or old age or an accident or caused by a different bad guy or … Bad guy can be pleased or saddened or conflicted or irritated or …

It can be your favorite pair of antagonists. Or make them up as you write. Just let the ideas flow and you may discover two characters you’d like to know more about.

A typical eulogy might include how they met, humorous memories, a quote or favorite saying, what the eulogy giver most admired, will miss the most and will remember most about the deceased.

March 29, 2007

Google to Advertise on the Moon

googlemoon.jpgCome up with a list of news releases or reports for April Fool’s Day that sound believable enough to be true. Some examples:

Personalized Dunlop Tires
Computer Virus Spreads to Human
Virgin Atlantic Buys Butterfly Advertising Space
There are more examples at April Fools R Us.

February 20, 2007

The year of the pig

pig.jpgAccording to the Chinese zodiac, Sunday began the Year of the Pig. Down below are the Chinese words for the 12 animals of the zodiac. Write a 12 line poem that tells what each animal is doing right this moment. You can begin each line with “At this moment …” which can give it a chanting rhythm or just the first line. (Or, of course, whatever inspires you.)

Unless you know Chinese you won’t know which animals are which, of course! It’s an opportunity to let the sounds (or your best guess at the sounds) inspire you. You can tie them to real world animals or make up your own.

gou
hou
hu
ji
long
ma
niu
she
shu
tu
yang
zhu

More:

New Year’s for the Chinese is a time, similar to American Thanksgiving, when scattered families gather together. Traditionally the celebration is 15 days long but officially people only get a week off.

Families traditionally decorate their entryways with New Year’s poems written on red paper called duilian (spring couplets). A traditional duilian “expresses a person’s spiritual aspirations, feelings and thoughts of hope, faith, and respect towards the divine.”

The requirements for a duilian are two lines, containing the same number of characters, usually ranging between five to ten characters in length. The rhythm and the meaning of the two lines must match up.”
There’s a very interesting article Writing Chinese New Year Poetry: Recalling childhood memories of an ancient tradition by Jason Liu:

Here’s an excerpt:

Below is an example of a duilian , loosely translated into English:

May the shining stars bless our generations.
May our great virtue always bring success.

When I was little, during the Cultural Revolution, my father, who was a professor, was labeled as an “intellectual,” and as punishment we were sent to live in the countryside in the northeast of China.

We lived in a small village by the name of Taihe, meaning “very quiet and peaceful village.” The place was indeed very isolated, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and a long distance from Changchun, the state capital of Jilin Province. Winters were very cold with temperatures dropping down to an average of minus 20 degrees Celsius.

The villagers did not have much education, so it was hard for everyone to get help creating their New Year duilian . After entering the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, people would flock to our house, bringing their red paper, to request my father to write their duilian for them. There were over a hundred families in the village, and every family’s duilian had to be different.

From the time I was seven years old, I would assist my father in creating duilian . I remember gradually learning from him how to write a poem and practice my calligraphy. Sometimes my father would say the first line, and I would create the second.

Duilian are said to have originated about three thousand years ago. When working on our calligraphy together, my father would tell me the ancient myth that was recorded almost 2,000 years ago during the Eastern Han Dynasty.


If you want to know which Chinese word goes with which animal, click on the Comments.

February 13, 2007

Surreal compliments

monstrousvalentines.jpgWrite a love letter containing one or more of the following. Is the sender serious and think his compliments will be well received? Does the recipient appreciate them?

  • Your eyes glow like naked livers burning in the sun.
  • Seven donkeys and a concubine cannot compare with the tarnished sheen left in your path of combustion.
  • Your timeless negligence has a way of arousing my palliative inuendo.
  • Your legs are like threads of cotton, though much thicker, and filled with weevils.
  • The microfine network of eyes traversing your shoulders causes me to shudder in anticipation of the coming of the wondrous season of jaundiced eskimos and impotent Anglican priests.
  • My eyelids belch with effluvial afterthoughts when you tease me with gelatin and congealed chicken rinds.
  • Madame, ist thou donning space underwear? For thine ass doth lie beyond the physical boundaries of this world!

From The Surrealist Compliment Generator.

December 28, 2006

I will cut back on my killing …

resolutions.jpgYour favorite villain has made New Year’s Resolutions. Will he put more effort into his evil plans? Will he turn around and try to start anew?

Make a list. :-)

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December 21, 2006

Deck the halls with boughs of garlic

Write a sentence about vampires for each of the following words. Feel free to change the tenses or word forms. To make it even more challenging, give the sense that it’s cold or even Christmas.

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  • bristly
  • castle
  • diddle
  • empire
  • ferret
  • grovel
  • hollow
  • immortal
  • jaded
  • knock
  • low tech
  • master
  • notorious
  • owl
  • patience
  • quirky
  • rakish
  • secret garden
  • torment
  • ugly
  • violinist
  • whimper
  • explorer
  • yanked
  • zest

December 19, 2006

A winter’s tale

penguinscarf.jpgCome up with titles for the following genre’s using the words winter or Christmas. (Or let the season otherwise inspire you :-)

  • Adventure/Action
  • Animal
  • Autobiography
  • Biography
  • Children’s
  • Detective fiction
  • Fantasy
  • General
  • Historical
  • Horror
  • Humor
  • Mystery
  • Non-fiction
  • Poetry
  • Reference
  • Romance
  • Science fiction
  • Suspense
  • Western

November 23, 2006

Food, glorious food

grapes.jpgOne great technique for upping the all important word count for NaNoWriMo is writing about food.

In NaNo, there are no lattés. But there are no whip, one pump, double shot, 120 degree, pumpkin spice venti lattés with organic soy milk. (16 words!)

In NaNo, there isn’t even roast goat, but there is organic Canadian maple roasted goat’s meat topped with cloves, festive green maraschino cherries, and organic Canadian pineapple rings all drenched in a delightful cane sugar and organic Canadian clover honey sauce. (31 words!)

(Remember, anything can be organic and everything can be from Canada. And dash mark’s come later in revising. honey-roasted=1 word. honey roasted=2 words.)

So, write about a feast or just a piece of (nine grain organic spelt sourdough) toast but be as florid as you can possibly be.

Happy Thanksgiving!

September 7, 2006

Harvest Moon

harvestmoon.jpgIt’s the harvest moon and she’s agreed to pose for a portrait. Who is she?

(Click the image to open a larger one in a new window from Amy Brown’s website. Or here if she’s moved her pictures again and the link doesn’t work.)

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August 1, 2006

Cooling off period

japansnowmonkeys.jpgTo chill down from Thursday’s writing prompt, create cool breezy phrases or sentences for each letter of the alphabet.

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July 27, 2006

Heated exchange

balrog.jpgCreate hot and humid phrases or sentences for each letter of the alphabet.

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