PROMPTS // 083.

[musemods]

We hope all our members had happy holidays and a fun New Year. Prompts should be back on an even weekly keel now that the silly season is over!

( 1 ) Muse prompts: LYRICS (500+ words, first or third person)
- "I am fairly agile
I can bend and not break
Or I can break and take it with a smile
And I am so resilient
I recover quickly
I'll convince you soon that I am fine."
• Break and Not Bend, Dashboard Confessional

- "So give me this chance
To make the wrongs right, to say
Don't don't don't walk away
I promise I won't let you down (you down)
If you take my hand tonight
I promise we'll be just fine (this time)."
• Promise, Simple Plan

- "If there's a maker up above
Then why is nobody listening
You show me hate, and I'll show you love
It's not about your religion
We're always lookin' to someone else
Just take a look in the mirror
'Cause all you need is inside yourself
It couldn't be any clearer."
• I Really Want It, A Great Big World

( 2 ) Muse prompts: QUOTES (500+ words, first or third person)
- "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

- "Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still." - Robert Sternberg

- "We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." - Persius

( 3 ) First Person/Blog/Diary prompts (Private to just your muse, or Public for all to see - your choice)
- "Don't be a dick."
- "Focus on what matters."
- "Today is the day."

( 4 ) Drabble prompts (100-300 words, first or third person)
- Compromise
- Tomorrow
- Blanket

( 5 ) Ten Things (List)
- Ten gifts you received for Christmas
- Ten New Year's resolutions
- Ten things you love about your relationship/want in a relationship

( 6 ) Picture Prompts
- ( Wishing fountain )

- ( Target practice )

- ( In memoriam )

( 7 ) Misc/Random - So, this is Christmas!
- Write a letter to someone you need to forgive
- Write a letter to someone who believed in you when you didn't believe in yourself
- Write letter to someone telling them something you've been reluctant to tell them in person

082.2. Muse prompt: Quote

[nothingelsematters]

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it." - Lion King (movie)

Lorenzo knew he still had a hell of a lot of lessons to learn. He had been a single dad for all of three weeks and he had lost his daughter's mother right in front of his eyes. Being 'thrown in the deep end' didn't even cut it. It was like he had been thrown in the sea and was being circled by sharks while he couldn't swim, but had to or he'd down and get eaten. That was how it most definitely felt some days, and he was still trying to figure out the balance of what was too much and what was too little.

( What he knew was that this past week, there had been too much crying and too little sleep... )

* Jude's not mine, but used with permission and love

lorenzo chevalier
- original character -

Prompts 083: 2. Muse Prompts - Quotes

[theyremembermine]

"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still." - Robert Sternberg

Connor had been on really cool trips before. It sort of came with the territory of growing up in a well-to-do family, and he was well used to the perks that came with his parents’ money. It had turned him into every bit the rich cocky bitch, but he had no shame about that. It was what it was, and he was okay with it for the most part. But he’d never gone away on a trip with a guy he was seeing, if only, perhaps, because he wasn’t really in the habit of having guys he was seeing in the first place. But on Christmas Day, Chase had brought up the idea of a trip to Australia for the New Year almost as casually as if he were suggesting ordering out for dinner. It wasn’t like Chase just to assume that was what Connor wanted to do – something that the law student had long since come to appreciate about the doctor. Chase didn’t push Connor. He put things out there, and they discussed them together, figured out what worked for them, which was how they came to even be calling their relationship a relationship in the first place at that, though beyond it being a relationship, they didn’t put many labels on it.

( Labels didn’t really matter to Connor anyway... )

Connor Walsh || How To Get Away With Murder

Chase is trueaussiedoc and is used with love and permission.

083.5. Ten Things

[sickoflivingalie]

Ten things you love about your relationship

#1. Real love
#2. What we went through to get here
#3. No bullshit
#4. We can be ourselves
#5. Openness to experimentation
#6. Rough sex
#7. It's worth fighting for
#8. No convoluted expectations or needs
#9. He puts up with my shit
#10. He wants to take care of me despite my shit

• ian gallagher [ canon: shameless ]

drabble challenge: 100 drabbles - table #2

[sickoflivingalie]

#29 SOLITUDE

Sometimes Ian needed to be alone. He didn’t even always know exactly why. Those necessary minutes where he didn’t have to think and he could quiet his mind down, reduce the pace of his thoughts.

Sitting on the back step, taking a drag from the cigarette tucked between two fingers, and then ashed it onto the grass. When Mickey came out, shoving the door open with his characteristic roughness, Ian smirked around the cigarette and then passed it over to his boyfriend when he sat beside him. Just because he sometimes needed solitude didn’t mean he wouldn’t soon welcome company.

• ian gallagher [ canon: shameless ] @ progress table