Daily prompt list repost
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Reposting my updated daily B2MeM prompt list
(I think it may be about to disappear from people's reading panes):
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(I think it may be about to disappear from people's reading panes):
- March 1: He was interested in roots and beginnings… (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 2)
- March 2: "A Hopeless Dawn" by Frank Bramley (picture prompt)
- March 3: Think of something that happened to you today and write down the first thing that comes to mind. Start your fanwork with your character having a similar experience or performing a similar task.
- March 4: He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 8)
- March 5: Partly open blue door: https://unsplash.com/photos/tVIv23vcuz4
- March 6: Finish a WIP fanwork.
- March 7: All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. (Walt Whitman, excerpt from "Song of Myself")
- March 8: Create a fanwork that is set in the aftermath of a disaster, either natural or human-caused.
- March 9:"They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
- March 10: At last, weary and feeling finally defeated, he sat on a step below the level of the passage-floor and bowed his head into his hands. It was quiet, horribly quiet. The torch, that was already burning low when he arrived, sputtered and went out; and he felt the darkness cover him like a tide. And then softly, to his own surprise, there at the vain end of his long journey and his grief, moved by what thought in his heart he could not tell, Sam began to sing. (Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 1)
- March 11: Photo prompt: Milky Way and person next to a lake (https://pixabay.com/photos/milky-way-human-lake-dreams-4500469/)
- March 12: Song prompt: “The Dreaming Tree” by Dave Matthews Band (Use the title, lyrics, song, or a combination as inspiration for your fanwork: https://genius.com/Dave-matthews-band-the-dreaming-tree-lyrics)
- March 13: “…your kingdom is gone. If it is to be restored, which I doubt, it must be from small beginnings.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
- March 14: Picture prompt: "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
- March 15: Begin your story in the middle of an important scene and watch how it unfolds from there! For non-story responses, choose a book from your shelf, open it to the middle, and choose a sentence from the middle of the page; create a fanwork starting from that point and see what develops.
- March 16: ‘Mithrandir! Mithrandir!’ men cried. ‘Now we know that the storm is indeed nigh!’ ‘It is upon you,’ said Gandalf. ‘I have ridden on its wings. Let me pass! I must come to your Lord Denethor, while his stewardship lasts. Whatever betide, you have come to the end of the Gondor that you have known. Let me pass!’ (Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 1)
- March 17: “For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.” (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 2)
- March 18: Because I could not stop for Death– / He kindly stopped for me– The Carriage held but just Ourselves– / And Immortality. (Emily Dickinson, excerpt from "Because I could not stop for Death")
- March 19: Picture Prompt: "Pandora" by John William Waterhouse (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pandora_-_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg)
- March 20: Create a fanwork that is completely or partly set in the afterlife, or that explores beliefs about the afterlife among a culture or group on Arda.March 21: Song prompt: “At the Beginning” by Donna Lewis, featuring Richard Marx. Use the title, lyrics, song, or a combination as inspiration for your fanwork. (lyrics: https://genius.com/Donna-lewis-and-richard-marx-at-the-beginning-lyrics)
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