SciFi/Fantasy – August 13

“I’m the one behind everything! I don’t give a damn what this impostor’s saying!”- Mitsuo Kubo, whose arrest was announced on this date in 2011. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist realizes s/he has been used as a pawn by a greater force by whom s/he had been inspired.

SciFi/Fantasy – August 12

“Going outside is highly overrated.”- Wade Watts, born this date in a year that depends on which medium one consumes. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is compelled outside her/his physical area of comfort.

SciFi/Fantasy – August 11

“dot dot dot DASH DASH DASH dot dot dot” The first SOS transmitted by radio was broadcast on this date in 1909. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must beg for aid.

SciFi/Fantasy – August 10

“Even years later, she would remember it as the day her life began.” Mariesa Gorley van Huyten watched a meteor cross the sky on this date in Michael Flynn’s 1974. Writing prompt: Write the scene in which your protagonist is inspired to his/her life-long quest.

SciFi/Fantasy – August 9

“Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy.”- Gillian Anderson, born this date in 1968, as Dana Scully. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s faith in something or someone is shattered by a skeptical sidekick.

SciFi/Fantasy – August 8

“I’ve found that there are some things in life that I can’t change, and there are some things that I can.”- Dr. Sam Beckett, born this date in 1953. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns s/he cannot change something s/he thought s/he could.

SciFi/Fantasy – August 7

“When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?”- David Duchovny, born this date in 1960, as Fox Mulder. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist receives what s/he is assured the truth, but which contains in it the seed of doubt suggesting the truth remains out there.

SciFi/Fantasy – August 6

“All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.”- Piers Anthony, born this date in 1934. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which something that makes no sense to your protagonist suddenly does.