Years ago I started gathering phrases, words, scenarios, ideas and anything else I thought might serve as a writing prompt someday. Some are images I wanted to flesh out, underscores I wanted to illustrate, plots I wanted to unfold or words I wanted a character to use. If you're looking for a place to start, hopefully one of these will help. Take what you want and add what you like...
- We don't know how or why, but this is what we've got. So, for now, we're doing it.
- To find out the marvelous things only we dead know.
- Innocent grace
- Like mournful doves
- I'm so weed free, I'm like a well-tended garden.
- The forever moment
- A withered gate, where a willow tree stood, bent and withered.
- Life is a sweet and happy tragedy.
- A piece of my life fell off today.
- Lilac-laden skies.
- Art begins where imitation ends (Wilde)
- A spoon and a sarong.
- The Wounded City
- The City of Orphans
- The soundtrack to my life
- A flat earth
- A direct ancestor headed up the building of the Tower of Babel. My family has always been trying to reach Heaven; I figure they've all got it wrong so far.
- A bottled message from a man on a floating island.
- Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the king, I tell you. (Lewis)
- Praise and folly
- Rebels in Utopia
- There are billions of people in the world, and they're all looking for each other.
- The thing about a Sunday...
- Rain baptism
- Poetry is for the weak.
- How could I love this place? It always hated me.
- God could just give you a boat, but no! You're going to cross the sea on dry land.
- Wishing within reason
- Letters and legends to which your story lends?
- A voice like a cold wind.
- Job: Enter the devil.
- All these little dramas are being played out under the guise of normality.
- You know, once you've gotten to know me better, you're going to want new friends.
- Me and my basement.
- "No, it might happen. Rather easily. The problem is the dream's not big enough." (Norman Maine, A Star is Born)
- You've got everything you want! Why aren't you happy?
- The love letter of 1902
- The Royal Exchange, Manchester.
- Food? No. Weaned myself off the stuff years ago.
- Life would be easier if you didn't want great things.
- Hope is immortal
- Reason! I'd almost given up on you.
- What do you like in your coffee? -Whiskey. Or cream and sugar, whatever you've got.
- Life isn't something you can live on.
- And the rain came down-- common grace and saving grace.
- Some place where there isn't any trouble....It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away, behind the moon, beyond the rain... (Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz)
- That's the ideal, and I'm not it.
- The disappointment of reality.
- Good Friday. The world in mourning, cloaked in black.
- The female lead, leaving the set.
- Swam ashore, man, like a duck!
- Each tombstone has a story saying for example, goodnight sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. -- You killed him. -- I didn't say what kind of angels.
- Coffee Drama: Asleep on the couch. "Excuse me, you're getting blood on the floor and...I need a refill. Thanks."
- In a magician's jacket. "I've got a tissue!" And on and on and on...
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