3 Questions

• If you walked out of your house and saw a bird with a broken wing huddled in some nearby bushes, what would you do?
• If you could increase your IQ by 40 points by having an ugly scar stretching from your mouth to your eye, would you do so?
• If there was a fire at your house and after saving your loved ones and pets you had enough time to save one item from the house, which one would you grab and why?

3 Questions

• If by sacrificing your life you could contribute so much to the world that you would be honored in all nations, would you be willing to do so?
• Would you be willing to make the same sacrifice knowing that someone you thoroughly diskliked would recieve the honor?
• Is it easy for you to accept help? Will you ask for help when you need it?

3 Questions

• What is your most treasured memory?
• You discover that your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try and correct the mistake?
• If you were able to live to the age of ninety and retaine either the body or the mind of a thirty-year-old for the last sixty years of you life, which would you choose?

3 Questions

• Would you prefer to be blind or deaf?
• If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?
• How do you picture your funeral? Is it important to have people mourn your death?

3 Questions

• Your fiancee is in a terrible accident resulting in amnesia- he or she doesn't remember you, nor anything about your relationship. Would you go through with the wedding? What if the accident altered their personality as well?
• If a crystal ball would tell you the truth about any one thing you wished to know concerning youself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you wish to know?
• Who is the most important person in your life? What could you do to improve that relationshio and would you ever do it?

3 Questions

• If you could prevent either an earthquake in Peru that would kill 40,000 people, a crash at a local airport that would kill 200 or an automobile accident that would kill an aquaintance of yours, which would you choose to prevent?
• Would you want your spouse to be both smarter and more attractive than you?
• From the following eight descriptors, pick four that describe you...

Logical

Random

Intuitive

Creative

Sequencial

Rational

Analytical

Holistic

3 Questions

• If you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, chaffeur, house keeper, masseuse or personal secretary, which would you choose and why?
• If you knew you could devote yourself to any single occupation and e the best and most successful in the world at it, what would you choose?
• Give the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as you dinner guest? as your close friend? as your spouse?

3 Questions

• Can you envision how you are going to look back upon the things you dare doing today?
• How much do you try to live how you think you will one day wish you had?
• Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permantently, or never leaving the state in which you now live?

3 Ouestions

• If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?
• Do you think your personality, intelligence, talents, likes/dislikes are genetically predetermined or learned through your enviroment?
• Do you think your dreams have meaning and can explain things going on in your life, or do you think they are random and meaningless?

3 Questions

• What is the craziest thing you've ever done?
• If you could live anywhere in the world, where and why?
• If you were stuck in your favorite book, who would you make friends with?

One Sentance Starters

• Jon Wendell - is a genius. Literally. His IQ is pretty far above the genius mark. He devours any books he can get his hands on and believes that you can never learn too much. Because of this, he can't identify with any of the kids his age. He doesn't understand the intellectual reason that one would want to hang out, so he figures that it must be a waste of time. Whenever he talks, it's usually with long, complicated words that most people wouldn't understand. If you talk to him, he'll talk back, but you wouldn't get what he said. He's approachable but his reputation keeps people away. Jon will give anything to learn more and to possibly learn how to get friends. He's possibly gay or bisexual.
• Florence Carson. An upbeat and friendly assassin, never a suspect because of her pure kindness. Kills quickly and painlessly, and puts a tarp under her victims to minimize the cleanup needed. She also leaves a note on the door notifying anyone that there is a corpse inside, to minimize the shock.Very popular. In her spare time, she rather likes to chill in libraries. One of her goals is to collect a library card from every library in the world. So far, she has 2,500, all of which she carries with her at all times.Her favourite colour is magenta, which she often wears, giving her the nickname "The pink ninja". She has long, blonde hair, and has an overall delicate appearance- thin and frail, as though a strong breeze would snap her in half. She's suffered a lot of medical problems throughout her life, and it shows.

Races

From the Race Generator at Seventh Sanctum

• This is a hedgehog-like race that evolved in a rainforest Mentally, the race has bizarre wisdom and strange memory. Physically, this race posesses poor endurance. The race is known for their greed and thoughtfulness.
• This is a tiger-like race. The race has bat-like eyes, a fox-like mouth, and orange furred skin. The race also possesses telepathy. Mentally, the race has powerful learning ability and frail adaptability.
• This race evolved in a desert. The race has slitted eyes, porcupine-like ears, a wide nose, and azure skin. The race also possesses gills. Mentally, the race has incredible learning ability and powerful intuition.
• This race evolved in a savannah. The race has reflective eyes, a flat nose, a beaked mouth, and furred skin. The race also possesses a prehensile tail. Mentally, the race has poor artistry. The race is known for their adaptability and their tribal government.

Characters

• Susan (Sue) Baxter nee O'Neill. The corporate wife. Early forties. Tall, slender, blonde, blue eyed. Very particular about her clothing, hair, makeup, etc. Always elegant and concerned about appearances. Lives through her husband's career and her children's accomplishments. Conservative in all matters. Resistant to change. Somewhat judgemental of those who don't conform to her world view. Still she finds herself strangely intrigued by eccentric personalities.Ironically, her childhood was the opposite of her current life. Her parents were artists who traveled the world, never staying anywhere for long. This lack of stability had a negative affect on her and, in her early adulthood, she was driven to create that stability with an intense loyalty to friends and also by marrying her first boyfriend. Fortunately (?), her choice was exactly the type of man who would provide her "ideal" life.Married life went smoothly for Sue until her children reached their teenage years and begin to rebel against her restrictions.

One Sentance Starters

• Your child is yours until you invite the goverment into your life to determine who she actually belongs to.
• She was my favorite cousin and my best friend, but that didn't stop her from screwing my fiance then marrying him.
• The pedestrian looked concerned, as he bounced off the bonnet of my car.
• I was nearly sent to the hospital because I could not convince the school nurse that my head had always been this shape.
• After deliberating for hours on how to finish with her epileptic boyfriend, she phoned him only to discover he'd had a fit and lost his memory.

Situations

• You're stuck in your house because of a snow day and as you're watching TV, the newscaster has just announced that the possibly largest storm of the century will be passing through your area. What do you do?
• You're suddenly transported back to the Colliseum in the Roman empire at it's golden peak. Other than, Why the hell did I have to come back here, what's running through your head?
• Your dog has had puppies. What will you name them and why?

3 Questions

• If you could change your name to anything, what would it be?
• If you were a weather form, what would you be and why?
• Who is the best cook in your family and what is their best dish?

Creating a Journal

If you haven't already started a journal, there is no better time than now. Artists of all kinds use them, and that includes writers as well.

Some people work their way through journals monthly, others take years. You can fill it up with whatever you like: personal thoughts, ideas, prompts, pictures, poems, inspirational quotes, names, characters, anything.

I prefer journals with rings, simply because they're easier to work with. Keep your journal with you at all times, if possible. You never know when some random piece of inspiration will pass your way.

What I'm Reading...

Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Danica Shardae is an avian shapeshifter. She is a princess of her people who, like the birds they become, is reserved and disciplined, yet full of passion. Her people have been at war with the serpiente, a people who shapeshift into serpent forms, for so many years that no one remembers how it all started. The hatred and bloodshed have taken a heavy toll on both sides, and Danica and Zane Cobriana, a prince among the serpiente, are determined to stop it, at any cost. He is the last of his line as is Danica and so he proposes that the avian and serpiente royalty meet at a neutral place and seek mediation to end the war. The mediator proposal-that Danica and Zane marry-is so crazy and repugnant a plan that both parties leave immediately. The young people, however, consider it in spite of the apparent lunacy, for it would mean an end to the fighting. But can they pull it off?

Characters

• Meet Luke Pierson, a man with some kind of old leg injury that forces him to use a cane even though he's only in his late thirties. He's obsessed with the time and the only thing he cares about are his two goldfish, named after famous Shakeaspearian characters. He generally wears black and dark green, and is incredibly rich, although it doesn't show from his seedy little apartment and shabby clothes. (willocwen on Nano forums)
• Daeali Sivain: An Eleven thief turned assassin/ninja. Her family was killed at an early age. That caused her to learn to fend for herself. After many years of bing a thief she eventually got recruited by a band of ninjas/assassins she tried to rob. She doesn’t trust anyone. But secretly longs to find someone to love. She wants out of the life she has but doesn’t see any way other than death. (nekomancer on Nano forums)

One Word Prompts

• Hide
• Eden
• Pirate
• Core
• Intoxicate
• Skull
• Elbow

One Sentance Starters

• Death comes slowly, with each aching breath.
• He was programmed for love.
• Tradition ruled their lives, from the time they woke in the morning until the moment they fell asleep.
• The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.
• After my eleventh winter, I was captured my our enemies and made a slave.
• I have been in Hawaii for four days and have four dollars left.
• Arriving home after sitting in traffic for two hours, I said to myself, "Oh, wait, I don't live here anymore."
• I'll never trust a ceiling fan again.
• 101 ways to tell it’s time to leave the planet.
• I married my husband on our first date, but it has taken me more than 5 years to decide what colour to paint our dining room.

The Beginning

Ever wonder how to gain inspiration for your writing, get your writing critiqued and become a better writer?

While picking through writing prompt and inspiration website, I found a sad lack of real ideas being generated- for me at least.

I'm one of those people who need inspiration to smack me in the face, not just answering questions.

There's so much I can do with this blog, but I'm going to start slowly and build my way there. Hopefully it will help you as much as I hope it will help me.