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Muse Muggers* weekly idea
Your Monday Morning MuseMuggers Prompt
Muse Mugger's idea #74
Option 1
"Quirky Tales of Global Bus Travel."
Don't just tell us how you got from here to there, tell us what happened. It can be funny, serious or offbeat, but make it true to the experience we've all shared from our seats on the bus.
Write a funny, off-beat, inspirational, tragic, and universal bus travel stories of 750 to 4,000 words.
Option 2
-Andrew has never spontaneously burst into flames and ran screaming into a duck pond.
-Andrew's favourite animals are primates. He's a big fan of opposable thumbs.
-Andrew still remember most of the theme songs to the cartoons he watched in the 80’s. This includes the songs to shows I shouldn’t have been watching to begin with, like Jem and the Holograms. (She’s truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.)
-Andrew's favourite colour is green, unless he's lying and it’s really blue. Which it’s not.
-Andrew used to collect plastic spoons. Looking back, he don’t really understand why.
-While Andrew does eat clams, he has never used their discarded shells to make a suit of stinking clam armour and wandered around the park claiming to be Sir Clamulous the Bivalve Knight.
-Andrew can, if paid well enough, put both legs behind his head and fold into a convenient, travel sized Andrew.
-When Andrew was a kid, he thought water made him run faster, that Tic-Tacs were the human equivalent to Pac-Man’s power pellets, and that a “jackass” was an arctic bird.
-The celebrity Andrew most resembles is Luigi from the Super Mario Bros. games.
-Andrew's favourite onomatopoeic word is “textiles.” It’s the sound a clothing store makes when it explodes.
Write a sonnet about Andrew
Option 3
Write a science-fiction/fantasy, supernatural or horror tale.
The story can be scary, funny or simply thought provoking.
1000 - 5000 words
Option 4
Non-fiction.
Write about a geographic locality within the UK. You may choose to write about your home town, or county, you may be more specific and wax lyrical about a park, or historic monument; even your favourite pubs, places of worship, national trust site, English heritage site, restaurants, art gallery, libraries, museums.
100 - 600 words
Option 5
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Shameful deeds bring on revenge.
Norwegian Proverb.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
Option 6
Your Main Character is a(n): child
Your MC's main character trait is their: agitation.
The Main Symbol in the story is a(n): Imp.
Theme point is: Revenge.
Your story will start at/on/in: a Clearing.
Your Main Character is a(n): female
Your MC's main character trait is their: temper.
The Main Symbol in the story is a(n): chicken.
Theme point is: Loss.
Your story will start at/on/in: a Lake.
Your Main Character is a(n): alien
Your MC's main character trait is their: self doubt.
The Main Symbol in the story is a(n): vixen.
Theme point is: Sloth.
Your story will start at/on/in: a Flower stall.
Your Main Character is a(n): child
Your MC's main character trait is their: wisdom.
The Main Symbol in the story is a(n): silver ring.
Theme point is: Darkness.
Your story will start at/on/in: a Roof Top.
Option 7
Picture One
Picture Two
Picture Three
Picture Four
Mix and match, drop bits, add bits, whatever story is sparked.
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Options 5,6 and 7 were purely for my pleasure of reading!
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