Prompts?

[spacemutineer]

Well, it's a new month, and time for a new game cooked up by resident genius/lunatic methylviolet10b. She's taking prompts for the month of September and has invited others to join in the fun too.

Sounded like a fine idea to me. I need to get my butt into gear and get some pieces finished and posted for a change, so let's do this thing. If you have an idea for a prompt, I'd love to hear it. I will definitely write and post at least one piece this month based on a prompt here. Got any good ideas drifting around? I'd be most appreciative for them. Prompt away, if you please!

Oh, and of course, please join us if you like! methylviolet10b's rules are simple: Make a post titled "Prompts?" and commit to one prompt-inspired fic for the month. And if you can throw a few spare prompts the way of the other players, that would be much appreciated too. So what do you say? Let's have some fun!

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[methylviolet10b]

Well, you know I wasn't going to resist, right? ;-)

Prompt #1: Poem 479, by Emily Dickinson, either stanza 1 or 3:
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -
How glittering they shone -
And every One unbarred a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone -

...To Ache is human - not polite -
The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom -
Just locking up - to Die.

Any which way this inspires you, if at all.

Prompt #2: A four-hour rail delay.

I hope one of these tickles your fancy!

Edited to add: "resident genius/lunatic"? *blushes furiously* Aw, you say the nicest things! :-D

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, Emily Dickinson. Her poetry is always so elegantly painful, and these two stanzas are no exception. Angsty possibilities abound. And prompt 2 is wide open! There's a lot that can happen in four stranded hours...

(And of course you're the resident genius/lunatic! :) You're always either playing an elaborate writing game or initiating one. You are a busy bee, as ever!)

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Well, I have the first part for prompt #2 up! Thank you for your patience. It's called Zoetrope. That rail delay isn't in this part, I'm sorry, but it is coming, I swear. I hope that's okay!

[methylviolet10b]

*cheers wildly* Oh wow, what a great start! Can't wait to see how you work in the delay!

[monkeybard]

Yay! Another player in the game! I offer the following prompt:

Holmes and Watson go to a production of either the latest Gilbert & Sullivan operetta or a Shakespeare play. Why? That's something I would love to learn!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Ha! Gilbert and Sullivan! Very tempting indeed! Thank you very much for the prompt -- I've got some fun things to consider here...