Writing Prompt # 91

Marie woke up in a strange place,again. Well, at least it seemed strange to her. She was not sure that it was really a strange place, it could have been a quite normal place for all she knew, but to her is was quite strange. She had been told that the occasional case of amnesia would come from the years in stasis, but every time she woke up in a strange place it disturbed her. What had she been doing? Where had she been? Was any of this real? Certainly The technology here seemed like magic, so maybe it really was in some way, or maybe she was just really behind the times.

Daily writing Prompts #79

Today on Google + a man that I count as a friend, Ayoub Khote, posted a question about first impressions and when they were wrong. In my experience they normally are. I had two thoughts here I could write about a character who's first impression is always wrong, or I could let you make one up.

Here's the prompt.

Your Pov character has some physical characteristic that gives people completely the wrong first impression about them.

Daily writing Prompts #78

Today's prompt is a setting with a few people, but mostly a setting.

The crew stood on the barren rock and looked around. There was nothing there but rock as far as they eye could see. No green, no blue, no nothing, but gray rock, and even grayer sand. The only thing that broke up the landscape, other than them, was the hulk of ship that used to be theirs.

Galley Table 48 - Pirate Takeover - Fiction Tuesday

Last week, the Pirate's took over the Galley Table to give four authors a chance to play with a couple of the writing prompts. I am hoping we will get some stories from them out of this. In the mean time if you would like to hear what got flushed out during the discussion...

Pirate take over

This episode The Pirate Captain (AKA Jeff Hite) (AKA Capt. Jack Smiley) hires some mercenaries and they take over the galley table.

Galley Table 48

We are joined by:
Veronica Giguere
Doc Coleman
James Keeling
and
Zach Ricks

We talk prompt based story writing, like you can find here on Fiction Tuesday
You can find all of our writing prompts here

Daily writing Prompts #76

Today's prompt is kind of a tried a true Sci Trope with a bit of a twist.

You are alone on an alien planet. Tell us the story of how you got there.

Daily writing Prompts #75

Today's prompt is from a misread tweet.

"A new Tazer from the Angels."

Since I misread someone's tweet in only seems fair that I link to their site since they were trying to promote either hard work. http://lindapoitevin.wordpress.com/

Daily writing Prompts #74

Today's prompt is just some random objects that you should try to squeeze into your story.

A gremlin with the starter in the back seat.

wishful thinking
obscured vision
witches

Daily writing Prompts #73

"Which way do we go?"
"We go down."

Daily writing Prompts #72

I have been rather busy lately so the daily writing prompts have kind of turned into the 4 or 4 times a week writing prompts. I will try to do better, but life does sometimes get in the way.

Today's writing prompt is:
You can't go back. There is no going back, that is just the way it is. No one ever goes back.

Daily writing Prompts #71

Today's prompt is another setup, so here is the idea.

The planet is at war. The technology being used in the war is going to wipe out both sides, life, technology, everything. In other words, if there are any survivors it will basically be a civilization reboot. In order to preserve the race as a whole, one or both sides have created "Time capsules" with hibernating people, and technology. This / these time capsule(s) get(s) lost for a very long time, much longer than was necessary to wait for the effects of whatever weapons used did to the planet to wear off. When they do awaken, things are very different, but they have not changed.

Daily writing Prompts #70

This is a prompt I suggested for part of a Galley Table topic. If you use this topic, keep your eyes on twitter / facebook /google + and come join us as we talk about this topic.

Humans have colonized 20 or so other planets. Faster than light travel has not been accomplished, and the planets are far enough apart that it take 20/30 years to get from on to the next. The last planet colonized sends a ship back to the other planets as a kind of cultural exchange. The plan is for the ship to make a loop, and come back to the last planet. The ship carries, unknown to the people on board, a disease that is killing the colonies it visits.

Daily writing Prompts #69

"System failure."
"Where?"
"Engines, life support, power systems, safety systems, automatic life pods, fire suppression systems, thruster control, waste management, environmental, shielding, hull integrity verification systems, navigation, communications, guidance and control,"
"Computer, give me a list of things that have not failed."
"This list might be lengthy do you wish to continue?"
"Yes."
"Hydraulics."
"Yup, that was a long list computer."
"Please repeat request."

Daily writing Prompts #66

Bob looked at the wind swept ground. It looked like it had been scrubbed with a scouring pad. There was nothing left but the bare earth. He laughed to himself at that thought. They were about as far from anything that could be called earth as any man had ever been, but they still called it that.

Daily writing Prompts #64

The Trick with this prompt, really with any story, is to take something mundane and turn it into something interesting.


"Next."
"Yes I need a new license."
"This is the wrong form."
"This is the form they gave me in line 6."
"That is your problem, you should have never been in line 6. If you want a new license you need to start in line 1."
"I started in line 1, they took my name and told me to go to line 6."
"Who did you speak with in line 1?"
"I don't remember her name."
"See you need to talk to Nancy in line 1, she will send you to the right line, if you talked to Trudy, she usually gets it wrong."
"So what line do I need to go to?"
"I don't know you need to talk to Nancy, but you better hurry she goes to lunch in 15 minutes."
"You mean you can't tell me what line I need to go to."
"Nope that is Nancy's job. If I do her job then what will Nancy do. Next!"

Daily writing Prompts #62

So a little commentary here before today's prompt. I really like immortal stories. They fascinate me, obviously there is a lot to think about, about living forever. The best immortal stories, in my mind, are the ones where they are not really immortals but where the "people" are just incredibly long lived. With all that in mind, instead of a snippet of dialogue today I give you an idea, a story setup.

Imagine a species of human-like creatures that lives until they reproduce a same sex child. So if a pairing occurs and there is a male child, the male of the couple passes their "Immortality" to the child and will die within the next 30-40 years, like a normal human. They can mate with humans, but if the immortal has a same sex offspring, then the child would still be "immortal." Needless to say they don't reproduce often. I am thinking something along the lines of a mother who saw the pyramids being built, a daughter who was a witness to Christ's birth and granddaughter who watched Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon.

So that is your setup. Have fun with it.