Master Prompt List 2013
I've finally updated the 2012 list, and here's the Master Prompt List for 2013
12 Jan
#1 Deadly serious
#2 Task: Write a short story/flashfic from the POV of a particular character in first, second or third person. Then write the same incident/story still from the POV of the same character, but in another person (first, second or third).
#3 Life and soul of the party
#4 A Picture
#5 Setting: In a crowded public transport (either from a passengers POV, or the transport POV ;) ).
#6 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
19 Jan
#1 Scenario: invigilating an exam.
#2 Challenge: choose a prompt from this master list, and one from this master list, and use them both to write a story.
#3 Scenario: embarking on a long journey.
#4 Challenge: pick three characters before reading the rest of the prompt. Now think of a film. The characters you've chosen end up at a drive-in cinema/movie theatre together. The film you thought of is playing. What happens?
#5 Scenario: getting detailed
#6 Challenge: choose a character, and write a pivotal moment in their early life.
26 Jan
#1 Hole Punch or Fallstreak Clouds (info and great pics on the link)
#2 Betrayal
#3 Setting: An abandoned public place
#4 Master List 2011 Prompt
#5 Scenario: One character has a deep crazy burning crush on another. The other doesn't have a clue.
#6 Virus
02 February
#1 Mass Effect (not the game. ;) It's another name for this.)
#2 Scenario: Any cybertronian meets a a non-human organic alien race
#3 Fighting for your life
#4 Winning a small war
#5 Setting: A very cold place
#6 Setting: A very windy place
09 February
1.Take something you have written before - a fic, drabble, anything - and write a sequel. This need not be anything you have previously posted, but if it is, please provide a link.
2.“So close ….”
3.Scenario: Characters stuck somewhere - maybe trapped in a sticky substance or wedged into a narrow space. (Or whatever!)
4.Slap in the face.
5.“I can’t get this darned thing out of my memory.…”
6.Scenario: A character represents Cybertron in some capacity, maybe as an ambassador, or in a sporting event or competition.
16 February, Theme Day: Heroism
1. Noble self-sacrifice
2. A heroic last stand, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the universe
3. A good death
4. Fighting against the odds
5. An unwilling hero
6. An accidental hero
23 February
#1bearing witness
#2 setting: a courtroom
#3 "Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars." Violet Parra
#4 a precious thing lost
#5 trying to sleep
#6 A Picture
02 March
#1 Awkward romance
#2 Disconnected
#3 Scenario - Watching an explosion
#4 Confession
#5 Setting: A world (any city, nation, planet) at war
#6 Scenario: losing something but not remembering what
09 March
#1 Keeping bad company
#2 Stargazing.
#3 'Small is beautiful'
#4 Well earned trophy/trophies
#5 'Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.'
#6 Think of a favourite non-TF movie or book and write a story based on it. That could be a crossover, or a scene re-enacted with TFs instead of the original characters. It could be a story with the same theme, or maybe even simply the same title. Anything goes!
16 March
1. Choose a Transformers Kreon. Their bio is your prompt.
2. Spigot
3. Citation
4. Limited attention span
5. Mushroom cloud
6. Over-thinking
23 March
1. Setting: a waiting room
2. digital divide
3. Task: tell a story from the perspective of a non-sentient object (a datapad, a gun, etc)
4. phoning it in
5. corrupted
6. Pick one line from this song and use it to inspire a story. Lyrics here
30 March
#1 Allergy
#2 Choose a prompt of the Master List 2011 and write for it. (Please state the prompt in the header of the fic.)
#3 Scenario: Someone being scared of something others don’t mind
#4 Inappropriate sympathy
#5 Unappreciated physical contact
#6 “I’m not insane. Nine of the ten voices in my head tell me so, the last one is humming.”
06 April
Awkward Situations theme day!
1. A character is ordered to work closely with somebody they had a previous falling out with.
2. A character is put in a situation with another character that they are highly attracted to (and the situation leads to awkward consequences)
3. "Well I didn't know that was stuck on there, did I?"
4. "We happen to have somebody on our team who's very good at that!" The problem is, the character isn't. But for some reason this belief has been formed.
13 April
1. Unwelcome guest
2. Flock
3. this image (underwater cave)
4. Choose a character, and write their first experience of a human sport (any sport).
5. Scenario: a space bridge malfunctions and sends your chosen character(s) back in time. What happens?
6. "You want to know who your real friends are? Screw up and see who's still there."
20 April
1. Task: Take a short fic you wrote and have one of the characters in that story having to tell that story to someone else. Who do they tell? How does that story go over? (For example, I wrote a little Whirl and Skids for last week--how would Skids report this little adventure to, say, Ultra Magnus? How might Whirl tell it to Swerve or Rung, etc).
2. Visiting hours
3. Task: Write a steampunk AU involving two of your favorite characters.
4. This image (If you're curious, here's a little blurb about the pic)
5. Downrange
6. Pick a line of lyrics from this song to inspire your fic! (Here's the song if you're curious)
27 April
#1 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
#2 Fluff
#3 Rendered speechless
#4 “Was that… a dragon?”
#5 This Picture
#6 “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
04 May
1. "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." (Quote of Sun-Tzu, Chinese general & military strategist ~400 BC)
2. Relocating
3. In deep water (can be literal or metaphorical).
4. A character demonstrates a previously unrevealed creative ability.
5. Gamble
6. Choose a prompt from this master prompt list. Please indicate the date and prompt no/title.
11 May
1. sunny afternoon
2. rockslide
3. Scenario: a double-cross gone wrong
4. unrequited hate
5. Challenge: using this random word generator spin until you hit on the first TF-suitable name. This is your new OC. Without spending more than a minute or so planning, write a ficlet focusing on the defining moment of their early life.
6. Setting: inside the Matrix of Leadership
18 May
1. slang
2. Task: Remember that scene in The Empire Strikes Back, when Luke encountered that vision of his worst fears in the Dark Side Cave? Your character encounters his or her worst fear.
3. Flyting
4. Unforgivable Sin
5. Pick one from this master list of prompts. Please indicate the date in your header.
6. this video
25 May
1 - The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
2 - Scenario: a character develops a superpower
3 - Challenge: pick two characters and a movie. Your characters were watching that movie, but something went wrong and now they're stuck inside the movie. What happens?
4 - Setting: An uncomfortable place at dawn
5 - Death
6 - High-Grade
01 June
1. Home improvements.
2. “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”― Dr. Seuss.
3. Setting - in a junk yard.
4. A character works up a fantasy about another character. This may be of friendship, love, lust, capture, revenge, hurt, torture - or anything. Lo and behold, an opportunity presents itself for the fantasy to come true. What happens?
5. "Don't say I didn't warn you ..."
6. Lazy.
08 June
#1 Scenario: a character receives a mystery gift.
#2 'I know I keep my heart protected far away from my sleeve', My Kind of Love, Emeli Sande.
#3 Setting: underneath a bed (any kind of bed)
#4 'Glitter and gold won’t keep you warm on those lonely nights', Glitter and Gold, Rebecca Ferguson
#5 Good-luck charm
#6 Assets
15 June
#1 Scenario: Reading another's private messages
#2 Setting: a public protest
#3 A Picture
#4 Stormchasing
#5 "It's bad manners to say 'I love you' with a mouth full of lies" (Random quote on Pinterest)
#6 Task: Pick a character you've never written before and write a scenario where they have to get up and make a speech in front of others.
22 June
1 - First in time, first in line.
2 - Censorship
3 - Choose a prompt from this Master List.
4 - Setting: a shooting range
5 - Dessert heat
6 - Dominance
29 June
#1 - Disappointment
#2 Scenario: A missed appointment
#3 - This picture
#4 - This song
#5 - Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?
- From the movie "what a girl wants"
#6 - convivencia
06 July
#1 Write about a very early experience or recollection of a character's history.
#2 A nice hot bath.
#3 "Nobody believes me, but I know what I saw."
#4 Scenario - crater.
#5 Unprepared
#6 "Make love not war."
13 July
#1 Sophie's Choice
#2 Lenticular clouds (scroll down to see some inspiring pictures!)
#3 Prophecy
#4 Reneging on a deal
#5 lifestyles of the rich and famous
#6 Stealth
20 July
#1 - “I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.” -Tom Waits
#2 - Scenario - no sound, over a large space of time
#3 - "Break a leg" as a literal statement
#4 - Asexuality
#5 - "The easiest decision I ever made"
#6 - Setting: A rundown bar on Cybertron
02 August
#1 Are we there yet?
#2 Homeworld
#3 Forced silence
#4 Scenario: left alone in somebody else's office or quarters.
#5 "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
― Abraham Lincoln
#6 Choose any short story or ficlet you've written previously and write a short seque
03 August
1. 'I'd rather be anywhere else but here.'
2. Scenario: your character is under siege
3. loose cannon
4. trailing vine
5. Choose any prompt from this Master Prompt List.
6. unnecessary complication(s)
10 August
#1 Scenario: getting caught breaking into something
#2 "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
#3 Scenario: the consequences of a missed message
#4 Click this random story prompt generator and go go go! Of course, let us know the prompt you got for your fic! :D
#5 echoes
#6 A Picture
17 August
#1 Scenario: the effects of the Cybertronian equivalent of caffeine.
#2 Greetings from beyond the stars
#3 And the morale of the story…
#4 A Picture
#5 Scenario: Just on time for an important event
#6 To-Do-List
30 August
#1 When least expected, a character demonstrates a hitherto unknown and unanticipated talent.
#2 Setting: a flight of steps or a staircase
#3 "Mind your own business!"
#4 “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” (Helen Keller)
#5 Obnoxious
#6 A Picture
07 September
#1 Unexpected light in Cybertron’s eternal night
#2 Bulletin board
#3 Misused tools
#4 Program failure
#5 In the sign of...
#6 Setting: a stowaway caught
13 September
1. Crash Landing
2. Confession
3. This image (abandoned library outside Moscow )
4. Setting: In a detention center/jail
5. Task: Hit this Story Generator On your honor, only click once! And use at least two of the elements to create your story (Each click of the generator gives you seven things!) I am not responsible if you get lost in tv tropes. ^_^
6. This song (Once in a Lifetime by Wolfsheim)
14 September
#1 Smells like trouble
#2 Scenario: a character is forced to confront their biggest fear
#3 Crank it up to eleven
#4 Setting: a rural settlement somewhere on Earth
#5 Petty annoyances
#6 Taste
21 September
#1 Admiration
#2 Write a story that ends: "....and that was just the beginning."
#3 A character returns a lost item to its owner
#4 Scenario - a darkened room
#5 The wrong decision
#6 A Picture
28 September
1. Scenario: taking part in a fly-on-the-wall style documentary.
2. Scenario: a bank robbery
3. public exhibition
4. Challenge: choose a short scene, drabble or flashfic you've already written, and re-write it from the perspective of a different character
5. Setting: a detailing shop or car wash
6. unexpected popularity
05 October
#1 Scenario: two characters are talking about a third behind his/her back, when the third character suddenly appears.
#2 Sacred Space
#3 Scenario: first day of freedom from captivity
#4 A Poem
#5 Inauspicious
#6 A Picture
19 October
#1 Maximum Security
#2 A character mistakenly receives either a reward or a punishment
#3 Scenario: under a street light
#4 Reassurance
#5 "Where there's smoke there's fire."
#6 A Picture
spookly Speedwriting Spam Weekend
#1 Waking up to a nightmare
#2 Unnatural thirst
#3 Reflection with this inspiration
#4 Ritual
#5 A scary place in space
#6 Skeletons
#7 Lay my ghosts to rest
#8 A Picture
#9 Task: A haunted ________. Fill in the blank with something unique (so, not haunted house, but haunted...spoons, maybe? What can you 'haunt'? How creative can you get? :D )
#10 Song: Twilight Zone by Golden Earring
#11 Mask
#12 Momento Mori
#13 rage breaking point
#14 Scenario: possession by a malignant force or personality.
#15 Alone at last
02 November
#1 Challenge: choose a prompt from the 2010 Master List and one from the 2011 Master List and write a fic responding to them both.
#2 Scenario: a natural disaster
#3 Challenge: write an epistolary fic using only news reports/journalistic media.
#4 Click on the Action Movie Title Generator. The title it gives you is the title of your fic.
#5 Scenario: a character comes face to face with their idol/hero.
#6 Scenario: a robotic character is transformed into a non-human alien.
09 November
#1 Dodging a bullet
#2 Irredeemable (a coupon? a person?)
#3 Click on This first line of this poetry generator to generate a line you can use as the first line, or the theme, of your story.
#4 Setting: A casino in the early morning
#5 Scenario: A character loses one of his or her five senses at the worst possible time: how does he or she cope?
#6 Task: Write an AU where Transformers take over the main leads in a movie, tv show, or book, etc, and go from there. (So...what if Optimus Prime is suddenly a Jaeger pilot in Pacific Rim? What if he's Rick Grimes from Walking Dead?
16 November
#1 Time travel
#2 Challenge: The NaNoWriMo challenge: Write a oneshot with exactly 1666 words - in 120 minutes!
#3 Task: Write a drabble (100 words) or double drabble (200 words) that in any way focuses on the colour blue
#4 Setting: A cold starry night
#5 Scenario: Someone steals the wrong thing
#6 Moving out
23 November
#1 "The best lies are those that contain an element of truth."
#2 Indecision
#3 Setting: Hanging gardens
#4 Scenario: discovery of an ancient code, key or artefact
#5 "Reward for a job well done."
#6 Choose a favourite episode/chapter from any continuity and write a short story based on it.
30 November
#1 First crush/first kiss
#2 First blood
#3 First contact
#4 Task: Take a minor character from canon and write a spinoff (first episode) story starring them in the manner of a television show formula. Would the G1 femmes be a Charlie's Angels kind of thing? What about Predaking's later adventures after the end of TFPrime? Would the Seekers be college roommates?
06 December
1. A job well done or an award well won
2. Holidays
3. A difficult time now past
4. A coming together
14 December
#1 the last chance to speak up before a pivotal event
#2 the last few moments in this universe
#3 the last time a character had to perform a certain duty
#4 the last text-based communication (email, letter, text message etc.) your chosen character wrote
21 December
#1 Scenario: preparing to entertain a large number of people.
#2 Decorations
#3 Challenge: invent a festival to take place in an alien culture - your chosen character observes and perhaps takes part.
#4 Scenario: the morning after an epic party.
Advent Calendar 2013
Day 1, this picture.
Day 2, Scenario: peace has been declared. How does your chosen character react?
Day 3 (two prompts used), Fire and Ice, and Baby, it's cold outside.
Day 4, this picture
Day 5, Happy Times
Day 6 (three prompts used), A shadow over the snowy idyll, Scenario: a meeting during acid snow on Cybertron, and This Picture
Day 7, White Wilderness
Day 8 (three prompts used), winter sports, a winter midnight sky, and midnight
Day 9, aches and pains
Day 10, this picture
Day 11, "Snow? What is snow?"
Day 13, "Staying up to watch the sun rise."
Day 14, Challenge: a character gets something they've wanted for a very long time. What happens?
Day 15, Scenario: preparing for a really big celebration
Day 16, Traveling in rough weather
Day 17, a character drinks the wrong energon
Day 18, scenario: trying to stay awake after hard work.
Day 19, Playing Hooky
Day 20, Ice
Day 22, remorse
Day 23, Task: write fluffy stuff between the two most unlikely characters you can think of.
Day 24, Scenario: a selfish character gives someone a present. Why?
12 Jan
#1 Deadly serious
#2 Task: Write a short story/flashfic from the POV of a particular character in first, second or third person. Then write the same incident/story still from the POV of the same character, but in another person (first, second or third).
#3 Life and soul of the party
#4 A Picture
#5 Setting: In a crowded public transport (either from a passengers POV, or the transport POV ;) ).
#6 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
19 Jan
#1 Scenario: invigilating an exam.
#2 Challenge: choose a prompt from this master list, and one from this master list, and use them both to write a story.
#3 Scenario: embarking on a long journey.
#4 Challenge: pick three characters before reading the rest of the prompt. Now think of a film. The characters you've chosen end up at a drive-in cinema/movie theatre together. The film you thought of is playing. What happens?
#5 Scenario: getting detailed
#6 Challenge: choose a character, and write a pivotal moment in their early life.
26 Jan
#1 Hole Punch or Fallstreak Clouds (info and great pics on the link)
#2 Betrayal
#3 Setting: An abandoned public place
#4 Master List 2011 Prompt
#5 Scenario: One character has a deep crazy burning crush on another. The other doesn't have a clue.
#6 Virus
02 February
#1 Mass Effect (not the game. ;) It's another name for this.)
#2 Scenario: Any cybertronian meets a a non-human organic alien race
#3 Fighting for your life
#4 Winning a small war
#5 Setting: A very cold place
#6 Setting: A very windy place
09 February
1.Take something you have written before - a fic, drabble, anything - and write a sequel. This need not be anything you have previously posted, but if it is, please provide a link.
2.“So close ….”
3.Scenario: Characters stuck somewhere - maybe trapped in a sticky substance or wedged into a narrow space. (Or whatever!)
4.Slap in the face.
5.“I can’t get this darned thing out of my memory.…”
6.Scenario: A character represents Cybertron in some capacity, maybe as an ambassador, or in a sporting event or competition.
16 February, Theme Day: Heroism
1. Noble self-sacrifice
2. A heroic last stand, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the universe
3. A good death
4. Fighting against the odds
5. An unwilling hero
6. An accidental hero
23 February
#1bearing witness
#2 setting: a courtroom
#3 "Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars." Violet Parra
#4 a precious thing lost
#5 trying to sleep
#6 A Picture
02 March
#1 Awkward romance
#2 Disconnected
#3 Scenario - Watching an explosion
#4 Confession
#5 Setting: A world (any city, nation, planet) at war
#6 Scenario: losing something but not remembering what
09 March
#1 Keeping bad company
#2 Stargazing.
#3 'Small is beautiful'
#4 Well earned trophy/trophies
#5 'Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.'
#6 Think of a favourite non-TF movie or book and write a story based on it. That could be a crossover, or a scene re-enacted with TFs instead of the original characters. It could be a story with the same theme, or maybe even simply the same title. Anything goes!
16 March
1. Choose a Transformers Kreon. Their bio is your prompt.
2. Spigot
3. Citation
4. Limited attention span
5. Mushroom cloud
6. Over-thinking
23 March
1. Setting: a waiting room
2. digital divide
3. Task: tell a story from the perspective of a non-sentient object (a datapad, a gun, etc)
4. phoning it in
5. corrupted
6. Pick one line from this song and use it to inspire a story. Lyrics here
30 March
#1 Allergy
#2 Choose a prompt of the Master List 2011 and write for it. (Please state the prompt in the header of the fic.)
#3 Scenario: Someone being scared of something others don’t mind
#4 Inappropriate sympathy
#5 Unappreciated physical contact
#6 “I’m not insane. Nine of the ten voices in my head tell me so, the last one is humming.”
06 April
Awkward Situations theme day!
1. A character is ordered to work closely with somebody they had a previous falling out with.
2. A character is put in a situation with another character that they are highly attracted to (and the situation leads to awkward consequences)
3. "Well I didn't know that was stuck on there, did I?"
4. "We happen to have somebody on our team who's very good at that!" The problem is, the character isn't. But for some reason this belief has been formed.
13 April
1. Unwelcome guest
2. Flock
3. this image (underwater cave)
4. Choose a character, and write their first experience of a human sport (any sport).
5. Scenario: a space bridge malfunctions and sends your chosen character(s) back in time. What happens?
6. "You want to know who your real friends are? Screw up and see who's still there."
20 April
1. Task: Take a short fic you wrote and have one of the characters in that story having to tell that story to someone else. Who do they tell? How does that story go over? (For example, I wrote a little Whirl and Skids for last week--how would Skids report this little adventure to, say, Ultra Magnus? How might Whirl tell it to Swerve or Rung, etc).
2. Visiting hours
3. Task: Write a steampunk AU involving two of your favorite characters.
4. This image (If you're curious, here's a little blurb about the pic)
5. Downrange
6. Pick a line of lyrics from this song to inspire your fic! (Here's the song if you're curious)
27 April
#1 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
#2 Fluff
#3 Rendered speechless
#4 “Was that… a dragon?”
#5 This Picture
#6 “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
04 May
1. "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." (Quote of Sun-Tzu, Chinese general & military strategist ~400 BC)
2. Relocating
3. In deep water (can be literal or metaphorical).
4. A character demonstrates a previously unrevealed creative ability.
5. Gamble
6. Choose a prompt from this master prompt list. Please indicate the date and prompt no/title.
11 May
1. sunny afternoon
2. rockslide
3. Scenario: a double-cross gone wrong
4. unrequited hate
5. Challenge: using this random word generator spin until you hit on the first TF-suitable name. This is your new OC. Without spending more than a minute or so planning, write a ficlet focusing on the defining moment of their early life.
6. Setting: inside the Matrix of Leadership
18 May
1. slang
2. Task: Remember that scene in The Empire Strikes Back, when Luke encountered that vision of his worst fears in the Dark Side Cave? Your character encounters his or her worst fear.
3. Flyting
4. Unforgivable Sin
5. Pick one from this master list of prompts. Please indicate the date in your header.
6. this video
25 May
1 - The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
2 - Scenario: a character develops a superpower
3 - Challenge: pick two characters and a movie. Your characters were watching that movie, but something went wrong and now they're stuck inside the movie. What happens?
4 - Setting: An uncomfortable place at dawn
5 - Death
6 - High-Grade
01 June
1. Home improvements.
2. “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”― Dr. Seuss.
3. Setting - in a junk yard.
4. A character works up a fantasy about another character. This may be of friendship, love, lust, capture, revenge, hurt, torture - or anything. Lo and behold, an opportunity presents itself for the fantasy to come true. What happens?
5. "Don't say I didn't warn you ..."
6. Lazy.
08 June
#1 Scenario: a character receives a mystery gift.
#2 'I know I keep my heart protected far away from my sleeve', My Kind of Love, Emeli Sande.
#3 Setting: underneath a bed (any kind of bed)
#4 'Glitter and gold won’t keep you warm on those lonely nights', Glitter and Gold, Rebecca Ferguson
#5 Good-luck charm
#6 Assets
15 June
#1 Scenario: Reading another's private messages
#2 Setting: a public protest
#3 A Picture
#4 Stormchasing
#5 "It's bad manners to say 'I love you' with a mouth full of lies" (Random quote on Pinterest)
#6 Task: Pick a character you've never written before and write a scenario where they have to get up and make a speech in front of others.
22 June
1 - First in time, first in line.
2 - Censorship
3 - Choose a prompt from this Master List.
4 - Setting: a shooting range
5 - Dessert heat
6 - Dominance
29 June
#1 - Disappointment
#2 Scenario: A missed appointment
#3 - This picture
#4 - This song
#5 - Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?
- From the movie "what a girl wants"
#6 - convivencia
06 July
#1 Write about a very early experience or recollection of a character's history.
#2 A nice hot bath.
#3 "Nobody believes me, but I know what I saw."
#4 Scenario - crater.
#5 Unprepared
#6 "Make love not war."
13 July
#1 Sophie's Choice
#2 Lenticular clouds (scroll down to see some inspiring pictures!)
#3 Prophecy
#4 Reneging on a deal
#5 lifestyles of the rich and famous
#6 Stealth
20 July
#1 - “I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.” -Tom Waits
#2 - Scenario - no sound, over a large space of time
#3 - "Break a leg" as a literal statement
#4 - Asexuality
#5 - "The easiest decision I ever made"
#6 - Setting: A rundown bar on Cybertron
02 August
#1 Are we there yet?
#2 Homeworld
#3 Forced silence
#4 Scenario: left alone in somebody else's office or quarters.
#5 "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
― Abraham Lincoln
#6 Choose any short story or ficlet you've written previously and write a short seque
03 August
1. 'I'd rather be anywhere else but here.'
2. Scenario: your character is under siege
3. loose cannon
4. trailing vine
5. Choose any prompt from this Master Prompt List.
6. unnecessary complication(s)
10 August
#1 Scenario: getting caught breaking into something
#2 "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
#3 Scenario: the consequences of a missed message
#4 Click this random story prompt generator and go go go! Of course, let us know the prompt you got for your fic! :D
#5 echoes
#6 A Picture
17 August
#1 Scenario: the effects of the Cybertronian equivalent of caffeine.
#2 Greetings from beyond the stars
#3 And the morale of the story…
#4 A Picture
#5 Scenario: Just on time for an important event
#6 To-Do-List
30 August
#1 When least expected, a character demonstrates a hitherto unknown and unanticipated talent.
#2 Setting: a flight of steps or a staircase
#3 "Mind your own business!"
#4 “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” (Helen Keller)
#5 Obnoxious
#6 A Picture
07 September
#1 Unexpected light in Cybertron’s eternal night
#2 Bulletin board
#3 Misused tools
#4 Program failure
#5 In the sign of...
#6 Setting: a stowaway caught
13 September
1. Crash Landing
2. Confession
3. This image (abandoned library outside Moscow )
4. Setting: In a detention center/jail
5. Task: Hit this Story Generator On your honor, only click once! And use at least two of the elements to create your story (Each click of the generator gives you seven things!) I am not responsible if you get lost in tv tropes. ^_^
6. This song (Once in a Lifetime by Wolfsheim)
14 September
#1 Smells like trouble
#2 Scenario: a character is forced to confront their biggest fear
#3 Crank it up to eleven
#4 Setting: a rural settlement somewhere on Earth
#5 Petty annoyances
#6 Taste
21 September
#1 Admiration
#2 Write a story that ends: "....and that was just the beginning."
#3 A character returns a lost item to its owner
#4 Scenario - a darkened room
#5 The wrong decision
#6 A Picture
28 September
1. Scenario: taking part in a fly-on-the-wall style documentary.
2. Scenario: a bank robbery
3. public exhibition
4. Challenge: choose a short scene, drabble or flashfic you've already written, and re-write it from the perspective of a different character
5. Setting: a detailing shop or car wash
6. unexpected popularity
05 October
#1 Scenario: two characters are talking about a third behind his/her back, when the third character suddenly appears.
#2 Sacred Space
#3 Scenario: first day of freedom from captivity
#4 A Poem
#5 Inauspicious
#6 A Picture
19 October
#1 Maximum Security
#2 A character mistakenly receives either a reward or a punishment
#3 Scenario: under a street light
#4 Reassurance
#5 "Where there's smoke there's fire."
#6 A Picture
spookly Speedwriting Spam Weekend
#1 Waking up to a nightmare
#2 Unnatural thirst
#3 Reflection with this inspiration
#4 Ritual
#5 A scary place in space
#6 Skeletons
#7 Lay my ghosts to rest
#8 A Picture
#9 Task: A haunted ________. Fill in the blank with something unique (so, not haunted house, but haunted...spoons, maybe? What can you 'haunt'? How creative can you get? :D )
#10 Song: Twilight Zone by Golden Earring
#11 Mask
#12 Momento Mori
#13 rage breaking point
#14 Scenario: possession by a malignant force or personality.
#15 Alone at last
02 November
#1 Challenge: choose a prompt from the 2010 Master List and one from the 2011 Master List and write a fic responding to them both.
#2 Scenario: a natural disaster
#3 Challenge: write an epistolary fic using only news reports/journalistic media.
#4 Click on the Action Movie Title Generator. The title it gives you is the title of your fic.
#5 Scenario: a character comes face to face with their idol/hero.
#6 Scenario: a robotic character is transformed into a non-human alien.
09 November
#1 Dodging a bullet
#2 Irredeemable (a coupon? a person?)
#3 Click on This first line of this poetry generator to generate a line you can use as the first line, or the theme, of your story.
#4 Setting: A casino in the early morning
#5 Scenario: A character loses one of his or her five senses at the worst possible time: how does he or she cope?
#6 Task: Write an AU where Transformers take over the main leads in a movie, tv show, or book, etc, and go from there. (So...what if Optimus Prime is suddenly a Jaeger pilot in Pacific Rim? What if he's Rick Grimes from Walking Dead?
16 November
#1 Time travel
#2 Challenge: The NaNoWriMo challenge: Write a oneshot with exactly 1666 words - in 120 minutes!
#3 Task: Write a drabble (100 words) or double drabble (200 words) that in any way focuses on the colour blue
#4 Setting: A cold starry night
#5 Scenario: Someone steals the wrong thing
#6 Moving out
23 November
#1 "The best lies are those that contain an element of truth."
#2 Indecision
#3 Setting: Hanging gardens
#4 Scenario: discovery of an ancient code, key or artefact
#5 "Reward for a job well done."
#6 Choose a favourite episode/chapter from any continuity and write a short story based on it.
30 November
#1 First crush/first kiss
#2 First blood
#3 First contact
#4 Task: Take a minor character from canon and write a spinoff (first episode) story starring them in the manner of a television show formula. Would the G1 femmes be a Charlie's Angels kind of thing? What about Predaking's later adventures after the end of TFPrime? Would the Seekers be college roommates?
06 December
1. A job well done or an award well won
2. Holidays
3. A difficult time now past
4. A coming together
14 December
#1 the last chance to speak up before a pivotal event
#2 the last few moments in this universe
#3 the last time a character had to perform a certain duty
#4 the last text-based communication (email, letter, text message etc.) your chosen character wrote
21 December
#1 Scenario: preparing to entertain a large number of people.
#2 Decorations
#3 Challenge: invent a festival to take place in an alien culture - your chosen character observes and perhaps takes part.
#4 Scenario: the morning after an epic party.
Advent Calendar 2013
Day 1, this picture.
Day 2, Scenario: peace has been declared. How does your chosen character react?
Day 3 (two prompts used), Fire and Ice, and Baby, it's cold outside.
Day 4, this picture
Day 5, Happy Times
Day 6 (three prompts used), A shadow over the snowy idyll, Scenario: a meeting during acid snow on Cybertron, and This Picture
Day 7, White Wilderness
Day 8 (three prompts used), winter sports, a winter midnight sky, and midnight
Day 9, aches and pains
Day 10, this picture
Day 11, "Snow? What is snow?"
Day 13, "Staying up to watch the sun rise."
Day 14, Challenge: a character gets something they've wanted for a very long time. What happens?
Day 15, Scenario: preparing for a really big celebration
Day 16, Traveling in rough weather
Day 17, a character drinks the wrong energon
Day 18, scenario: trying to stay awake after hard work.
Day 19, Playing Hooky
Day 20, Ice
Day 22, remorse
Day 23, Task: write fluffy stuff between the two most unlikely characters you can think of.
Day 24, Scenario: a selfish character gives someone a present. Why?