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Your Monday Morning MuseMuggers Prompt
Muse Mugger's idea #89
Option 1 -- pick one or more, mix and match
This is a comedy. The story is about a garbageman. It takes place in a space launch facility. Cultures colliding plays a major role in this story.
The story is about a fearful policeman who is constantly annoyed by an electrician. It starts in a town. The story begins with someone changing clothes.
The story is about a priest, a CIO, and a technician. It starts in a synagogue. The critical element of the story is an advice.
The story is about a space cargo hauler haunted by dark memories. It starts in a tourist town on an ancient planet. The critical element of the story is someone buying a dwelling. A spatial anomoly plays a major role in the story.
The story is about a misguided rabble-rouser with unexpected depths. It takes place in a world-spanning nation on a prairie planet. The difficulty of cross-species communications is a major issue of the story.
The story is about a soldier, a wise beastmaster, a fearsome blacksmith, and a prophet who is obsessed with a combative paladin. It takes place on our world after a disaster brought about the return of magic. The crux of the story involves someone doing laundry. A magical artifact plays an important role.
The story is about an unbalanced shaman. It takes place in a small town. The effect of magic on technology is a major part of the story.
The story is about a princess who was once married to a striking peasant. It starts in a guildhouse. The crux of the story involves a massacre.
Option 2, just follow the prompt
Find a photograph that sparks a memory. We suggest you use one of those photographs you've placed in a drawer--one of the ones you've been intending to paste in a photo album some day.
Study the photograph like you've never studied it before. Find an object in the photograph that a camera could zoom in on...it can be a thing or a part of a person--like a ring or someone's eyes or hands. Write a beginning sentence that describes just the object you've zoomed in on.
Pretend your writer's camera has now zoomed out just a little, giving you a bigger piece of the photograph, but not the entire photograph yet. Add a second sentence to your description that describes an even bigger piece of your photograph.
Finish the story, using the whole photo, with the object as the central theme.
Option 3, returning, mix and match
write to pi.
The first number in the number pi is 3, so the first word in your story has to have three letters in it. The second number in pi is 1, so the second word in your story has to have one letter in it. etc
Option 4, photo prompts, pick one, pick them all, mix and match
photo 1
photo 2
photo 3
photo 4
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