My prompts:
1) You have held your favorite book close to your heart all your life, but suddenly realize you are the only one who has ever read or heard of the book or its mysterious author. Describe what happens next.
2) You find a newspaper on side of the road, emblazoned with the headline "NUCLEAR WAR IN AMERICA", and the date September 25, 2017. Every other part of the newspaper is mysteriously burned off. What was the cause of the war? Would you act to stop it?
3) What everyone expected to be the "Zombie Apocalypse" is upon us- humans are now virtually unkillable. It is discovered not to be a disease, as was initially thought, but simply the next stage in human evolution. What do you do?
(These are all prompts which I think warrant more time to be written upon than I have right now, so instead of answering the question the prompts ask, I'll just respond the why I like each one/find it worth writing about)
1) I took inspiration for this prompt from one of my favorite books, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (an EXCELLENT read, in my unbiased-ish opinion). One of the most overlooked parts of any piece of writing is the author, and I believe that giving that some real thought gives you some very valuable insight into any kind of writing. I think this prompt provides lots of room for interpretation and creativity, because it gives you a profile just vague enough to be expanded upon, but specific enough to have direction and purpose.
2) I've thought about this a lot, just in my daily daydreaming- what if a time traveler simply forgot some sort of life-altering artifact like that? It also calls into question the ability of one person to change the world, and for the future to be changed at all. The author has the ablility to choose what path they go on the answer this prompt let it be sci fi, political, action/thriller, or investigative.
3) This was an idea that I had the other day while watching the Walking Dead. I mean, what makes the zombies any worse than any other animal, including the "living"? Their purpose is to survive, period. And they are surviving (and thriving) better than any other species on earth during the period of this show. So, what if it's just humanity evolving? Would you give in to the evolution, since it's inevitable for everyone? I think it's a fascinating concept.
Other prompts that I have come across that are intriguing (and pretty funny) but are not my own:
When humanity has to leave Earth to live on the moon, you panic. Nobody knows that you're a werewolf.
The hero bursts into the villain's lair, ready to fight, but the villain is having family troubles - so they have to reschedule their showdown...
Everyone in the world sees themselves in first person. You, however, just woke up in third person. Explain your day.
#3 is coming up later in october
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