thirty days of fiction meme

[meridian_rose]

kc_obrien has been filling this 30 days of fiction meme and I thought it looked like fun. So I'm snagging it. Like kc_obrien though, I'll probably not complete the fills in order. It will be a minor miracle if I complete it at all.

"Basic rules: Try to keep it to around 250 words per entry. Go wild with genres (ex; prompt 25 is "noir" but it's meant as more a mood/flavour). No poems; rhyming verse/prose is okay. Have fun."

Your month of prompts are:

1) Write a scene saying “hello”
2) Write a scene with a drunken mythological creature
3) Write a query letter for a fantasy (any kind) novel
4) Prompt: a hostage situation
5) Write a scene entirely in dialogue
6) Write a scene with people talking, but without any actual dialog
7) Write something dirty (take that how you will)
8) Write a scene as a cat
9) Write a scene working from the title “Roses are Red, Violets are Dead”
10) Write a scene focused around a musical instrument
11) Prompt: a dragon and a princess
12) Write a scene at a sushi bar
13) Prompt: underwater
14) Write the final scene of a romance novel “Never Been Caught”
15) Prompt: shots fired
16) Write a scene on horseback
17) Write a scene with a character in a foreign land, unable to speak the local language
18) Prompt: the name “Thomas Daniel”
19) Prompt: in the marketplace
20) Write a scene with the opening line “I hate you; I just want you to know that”
21) Write a scene with a drink(ing) of some sort
22) Write a scene with children
23) Prompt: falling
24) Write a scene on a movie set
25) Prompt: noir style
26) Write a personalized rejection letter for the YA novel “Sparkle Lust”
27) Prompt: trapped
28) Prompt: overhearing a conversation
29) Write a scene about a [person] and their [animal]
30) Write a scene saying “good bye” "

Comments

[hrhrionastar.livejournal.com]

I think it's great that you're doing this :D

The prompts all look really interesting, and I can't wait to see the results!

[meridian_rose]

Thank you :D All the fills I've seen are original fic, so I'm going try to do some original fic, even though some prompts scream 'fanfic' at me, lol. I really need to get into the habit of original fic again.

I've been working on 9, but is there any particular prompt you like the look of, to give me a push? :D

[hrhrionastar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like 9 ;)

Let's see: 2 makes me smile just reading it...11 makes me think of Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons (which is brilliant, and definitely recommended ;D) - maybe the princess and the dragon unite against the knight?

I'm not sure I get 1 and 30 - I wouldn't know how to approach them, I think.

[meridian_rose]

Thank you; I think 3 is going to be the hardest. Goodbye should be easy; hello could perhaps by any first meeting...yes, two is a good one :D And I'll add Wrede to my list of recommended authors :D