Roll Your Own Story: Holiday Edition
Amber asked me if I’d like to do a prompt every other week and I said sure. That means you’ll still be seeing my name up here now and then. I hope you’re not too disappointed
In trying to decide what to do I thought back to some of the prompts I enjoyed the most in the past and which received the biggest responses. One of those things was the ‘Roll Your Own Story’ type prompt. Looking at the calendar provided the perfect subject for this one.
The idea is simple. Get a six-sided die and then roll it four times, once for each category below. Each category has six options so each die roll will correspond to one of the options. Voila. Once you’re done rolling you’ll have a random writing prompt that is sure to help get your creative juices flowing.
Genre:
1- Speculative
2- Literary
3- Humor
4- Mystery
5- Writer’s Choice
6- Childrens
Character:
1- Dog
2- Teacher
3- Cookie/Candy Cane
4- Parent
5- Child
6- Writer’s Choice
Verb:
1- Lost
2- Found
3- Wished
4- Died
5- Transformed
6- Writer’s Choice
Holiday:*
1- Christmas
2- Hanukkah
3- Kwanzaa
4- Writer’s Choice
5- New Years (any culture)
6- Solstice
I left things quite open and that was intentional. I didn’t want to box anyone in, in fact, that’s the opposite of what I was aiming for.
Please feel free to share your rolls and/or stories with us
If you need a random number generator there is one here. It’s the one I always use. It’s not better or worse than any others, but clicking that link would save you a google search
*If I missed your favourite holiday I apologise, I only had room for 6
~ Rhonda
Originally published at Poise and Pen. You can comment here or there.
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