A Dragon's Hoard of Prompts

[thejollywriter]

A writing lesson i learned.

If I'm not sure what happens next, and I'm feeling stuck, i ask myself who else is turning wheels, making moves, in this story.

The hero isn't the only one scheming, hoping, and dreaming, and even i think about that, i inevitably find so many fresh details to add that unlock much more story to explore.

[this-basic-mage]

Florence + The Machine Prompt List Part 2

I wrote a Florence + The Machine prompt list about two years ago. Since then, she's put out a new album, and after seeing her on Friday I'm feeling inspired to make another.

I need my golden crown of sorrow

I never knew my killer would be coming from within

I am king

Sometimes I wonder if I should be medicated

I'm on fire, but I'm trying not to show it

I'm always running from something

And for a moment, When I'm dancing, I am free

I just kept spinnin' and I danced myself to death

Never really been alive before

I'm back in town, why don't we go out?

I came for the pleasure, but I stayed, Yes, I stayed for the pain

What a thing to admit

Crying into cereal at midnight

Well, did you miss me?

Make me perfect, make me your fantasy

My montage of lost things

You make me climb, then you shut the gate

I used to see the future and now I see nothin'

Everything I thought I knew has fallen out of view

Heaven is here if you want it

I'll turn your sea to a desert

I couldn't help it, yes, I let it get in

The helpless optimism of spring

I'm not bad, I'm not good

You practice resurrection every night

You're a perfect pearl hung in the sky

A generation soaked in grief

I never thought it would get this far

This somewhat drunken joke

I don't know where to put my love

Am I quiet enough for you yet?

I don't love you, I just love the bomb

And you're so high, you're so high, you had to be an angel

When love became an act of defiance

Hold onto each other

You need a big god

The best of the best and the worst of the worst

Hold me down, I'm so tired now

This is the only thing I've ever had any faith in

You've always been my North Star

It's such a wonderful thing to love

My held breath fills the room with love

I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject

At least we had it for a moment

Did I build a ship to wreck?

Let me leave or let me love you

The dog days are over

Sweeter than heaven and harder than hell

No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

Tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks, and the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts

Reblog if you want someone to send you one of these prompts, and check out Part 1 here: https://www.tumblr.com/sidhelives/700865391482863616/florence-the-machine-prompt-list

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Prompt #968

"It will cost you your soul."

"Not much left to lose."

[ahoardofprompts]

Photo by Andrew Reshetov on Unsplash

[ahoardofprompts]

My ghost, where'd you go?

I can't find you in the body sleeping next to me

My ghost, where'd you go?

What happened to the soul that you used to be?

Halsey / Ghost

[meetcuteproject]

Prompt: I think I'm in the wrong hot air balloon.

– daily meet-cute

[ahoardofprompts]

Photo by Max LaRochelle on Unsplash

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We can't afford to be innocent

Pat Benetar / Invincible

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When Kings fall to their knees

Hu ft. Lzzy Hale / Song of Women (Remix)

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Cause I came from the bottom, now everybody's watchin'

Bastille  and Angel Haze / Weapon

[galadrieljones]

Summer Season Three Word Prompts

Choose ONE of each and drop them in my ask box, with a pairing! Feel free to share this prompt list and/or use it for yourself. <3

Setting

Sand

Tide Pools

Big Sky

Street Market

Pasture

Cornfield

Harbor

Meadow

Café Patio

Vineyard

Time/Weather

Night

Sunrise

Late Morning

Afternoon

Sunset

Thunderstorm

High Surf

Breeze

Humid

Dry

Noun

Yellow Lamplight 

Kite

Sailboat

Handkerchief

White Wine

Sundress

Sunburn

Muddy Puddle

Open Window

Enchanted Forest

[jamsmemes]

(     *     TAO TE CHING PROMPTS   !    

——     lao tzu.     book one.

❛  the way that can be spoken of is not the constant way.  ❜

❛  the name that can be named is not the constant name.  ❜

❛  the nameless was the beginning of heaven and earth.  ❜

❛  do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.  ❜

❛  let your wheels move only along old ruts.  ❜

❛  is not the space between heaven and earth like a bellows?  ❜

❛  more speech leads inevitably to silence.  ❜

❛  better to hold fast to the void.  ❜

❛  the spirit of the valley never dies.  ❜

❛  heaven and earth are enduring.  ❜

❛  highest good is like water.  ❜

❛  to be overbearing when one has wealth and position is to bring calamity upon oneself.  ❜

❛  great trouble is like one’s body. the reason i have great trouble is that i have a body.  ❜

❛  when i no longer have a body, what trouble have i?  ❜

❛  hold fast to the way of antiquity in order to keep in control the realm of today.  ❜

❛  i do my utmost to attain emptiness; i hold firmly to stillness.  ❜

❛  this is what is meant by returning to one’s destiny.  ❜

❛  the best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.  ❜

❛  when there is not enough faith, there is lack of good faith.  ❜

❛  have little thought of self and as few desires as possible.  ❜

❛  between good and evil how great is the distance?  ❜

❛  calm like the sea; like a high wind that never ceases.  ❜

❛  a gusty wind cannot last all morning, and a sudden downpour cannot last all day.  ❜

❛  if even heaven and earth cannot go on forever, much less can man.  ❜

❛  the heavy is the root of the light; the still is the lord of the restless.  ❜

❛  there is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.  ❜

❛  when great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow.  ❜

❛  when victorious in war, one should observe the rites of mourning.  ❜

❛  knowing when to stop one can be free from danger.  ❜

❛  he who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.  ❜

❛  the submissive and weak will overcome the hard and strong.  ❜

[ahoardofprompts]

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian proverb, according to the internet

[bluesmemethings]

various starters

❛  you’re a weapon and weapons don’t weep.  ❜

❛  hurt me once, I’ll kill you twice.  ❜

❛  never trust a survivor until you learn what they did to stay alive.  ❜

❛  death is the only god that comes when you call.  ❜

❛  I am teeth. I am royal. you are nothing to me.  ❜

❛  the sun will rise and we will try again.  ❜

❛  we’re just kids. we aren’t supposed to be heroes.  ❜

❛  I like my women like I like my Absinthe: bitter and intoxicating.  ❜

❛  what doesn’t kill me better run.  ❜

❛  she wasn’t looking for a knight. she was looking for a sword.  ❜

❛  don’t dehumanize bad people, because it’s their humanity which makes what they’ve done so terrifying.  ❜

❛  she isn’t just pretty. she is otherworldly and vaguely threatening.  ❜

❛  magic is not good or evil. is a knife evil? only if the wielder is.  ❜

❛  I don’t want your crown. see, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down.  ❜

❛  they broke my wings. they forgot I have claws.  ❜

❛  all that blood was never beautiful, it was just red.  ❜

❛  what do you do when there’s no hero in the story? simple. you kill the monster and crown yourself.  ❜

❛  how terrible it is, to love something that death can touch.  ❜

❛  you may not be interested in war, but it is interested in you.  ❜

❛  I feel divinity in my bones like aching. like fire.  ❜

❛  you make me feel and I don’t like it. I want it to stop. now.  ❜

❛  you are losing my interest and that is very dangerous.  ❜

❛  she will burn your kingdoms down, herself with it, if it means your ruin.  ❜

❛  it’s okay to be scared. it means your about to do something brave.  ❜

❛  she looks like divine absolution.  ❜

❛  I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find and impossible to forget.  ❜

❛  be careful with words. they can be forgive, but never forgotten.  ❜

❛  you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.  ❜

❛  I’m tired of fighting. for once, I want to be fought for.  ❜

❛  never run back to what broke you.  ❜

❛  I was quite, but not blind.  ❜

❛  your gut knows what’s up. trust that bitch.  ❜

❛  we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.  ❜

❛  do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.  ❜

❛  I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, wishing it was a donut.  ❜

❛  you can miss something but not want it back.  ❜

❛  you can’t save people, you can only love them.  ❜

❛  I came, I saw, I made it awkward.  ❜

❛  we buy shite we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.  ❜

❛  you’re always one decision away from a different life.  ❜

❛  my brain has too many tabs open.  ❜

❛  I’m not saying I hate you, just that you’re like the Monday of people.  ❜

❛  there’s no ‘we’ in fries.  ❜

❛  apology accepted, trust denied.  ❜

❛  death and I have been scandalously intimate for some time now.  ❜

❛  life happens. coffee helps.  ❜

❛  I am mine before I am ever anyone else’s.  ❜

❛  I rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony.  ❜

❛  very early in my life it was already too late.  ❜

❛  is that a threat or are you flirting with me.  ❜

❛  was the use of force necessary in completing your objectives?  ❜

❛  I’ll let you drag me to hell if it means you’ll hold my hand.  ❜

❛  I do bad things, and I do them very well.  ❜

❛  you drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. you’re everything I ever wanted.  ❜

❛  they will kill you, but first they will have to catch you.  ❜

❛  drugs might kill you but they’ll never break your heart.  ❜

❛  good girls are just bad girls that haven’t been caught.  ❜

❛  a pretty face doesn’t guarantee a pretty heart.  ❜

❛  no airbag, we die like men.  ❜

❛  true evil is, above all, seductive.  ❜

❛  it takes more courage to suffer than to die.  ❜

❛  you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. but the wolf? he only needs enough luck to catch you once.  ❜

❛  justice is vengeance in prettier packaging.  ❜

[ahoardofprompts]

Your voice is a weapon So do with it what you can

Bastille and Angel Haze / Weapon

[write-it-motherfuckers]

Person A: “….Is…Is that real?”

Person B: “I mean, it feels pretty fucking real…. Please don’t do that again.”

[biathenas-blog-deactivated20190]

you know i love coffee shop aus and the like but can we just consider:

merperson caught in a fisher’s net au

rival dragon riders au

bumped into each other while watching a street magic performance au

got drunk and broke into a dragon guarded tower together au

stole a sacred artifact from a witch and now i have to hunt you down au

well, you try talking some sense into the bridge troll au

pegasus joy riding au

werewolf gladiators au

we’re both cleaning up the ocean because our friends/parents are making us merperson au

your kiss broke a sirens spell au

my folks are making you steal a griffin feather to prove your love but that’s not stopping me from going with you au

i just fell in love with my magic mirror au

kidnapped by a band of magical golden hearted thieves au

first pet dragon au

ridiculous fluff fantasy aus okay don’t hold back go for gold