Prompts, Tables and Story Ideas

[donutsweeper]

Since sometimes motivation is hard to come by here is a list of prompts, tables and list comms I sometimes troll to see if anything jumps out and gets the old muse interested.

25moments and its prompt table

15_song_titles and its song title prompt list

36_plots and its prompt table

flashslash Tuesday prompts of 4 words to be written in 8 minutes.

50scenes and its prompt table

prompted_quill daily, weekly and monthly prompts

alphabetasoup and its word lists (the comm does not appear to be accepting new claims but the lists are nice)

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I find the table thing a little freak-making too, which is why I've only got the one, and it's one with no time limit! I'm hopeless with time-related challenges, only time I haven't been was when consci-fan-mo was running as that was an 'if you fell like it' thing not a 'must do' thing. Things that I must do tend to dry me up creatively (good example being Big Bang) even though I know I can do what they're asking.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I signed up for paliphrase ages ago and the 'must post once a month' thing made me go AAAUUUGGHH and freeze up. But consci_fan_mo was great and I managed something everyday. *shrugs* The muse is a weird thing.

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had great fun doing that too. Didn't quite manage a fic a day, but I wasn't that far off it. Guess what I'll be doing this December? *g*

Signing up for the occhallenge thing has made me write more ficlets about Siannon's earlier life, something I'd never touched on before so I'm pretty pleased about that, especially with the last one which was her first meeting with Methos.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

consci_fan_mo was just awesome. Freeing in a way. Most of the things I put up there I didn't wind up posting to other comms so it felt like I could branch out more and try stuff I normally wouldn't (like original fic!).

I love when friends post prompts or something that gets me to think of things from a different direction, like the occhallenge is doing for you. There's been plenty of times when I've been *headscratch* 'how's that going to work?' But then it does and it's exciting.