Don't forget I'll be doing an activity check next Friday!


1. Single word:
Christmas

2. Mun:
How much research do you do into things that your character is good at/knows a lot about, but you're terrible at/don't know much about?

3. Silly:
Your character has been hypnotised to do or say something embarrassing whenever they hear a certain word or phrase

4. List:
Presents

Since next Friday is Christmas Day, next week's prompts will be on Thursday. I will still be doing an activity check on New Years Day.


1. Setting/scenario:
Accidentally getting engaged

2. Quote:
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. - Peter de Vries

3. Writing:
Write a scene from the point of view of one person, and then write the same scene from someone else's point of view

4. Five things:
Five times you laughed

1. Single word:
Snow

2. Mun:
What was your character's childhood like? How has it influenced them since?

3. Silly:
People keep breaking out into song

4. List:
Dreams you have

How do you approach prompt writing with your character? Eg Do you have ideas and then find a prompt to fit them or are you inspired by the prompt? How much does having a deadline make a difference? How many more would you write if there was a direct feed from your brain to your computer?


I have a couple of ongoing stories I'm writing with Harry in order (ish). One's set in the present where he's come back from his hush-hush mission and is working for UNIT again. The other is when he's a child starting after his mother dies. I know the sort of thing I want to write next and I find a prompt I want to write that fits with it. Sometimes it'll give me an idea of what to put in it or the theme of the prompt.

However, sometimes I'll be inspired by a prompt to write something else - and there are times of Harry's life other than the above that I like to write the odd prompt about. Quite often I'll write something that fits two prompts, either because they're similar or sometimes I don't know how to end it but if I also write it for another prompt that'll tell me the ending. It also helps with meeting prompt deadlines if one story fits with two prompts from different comms.

Deadlines are a big help because otherwise I probably wouldn't get round to writing much. However, in the spring most of the comms I'm in changed to check activity so rarely that there's effectively no deadline. While it's quite helpful at the moment while I'm ill to not need to write so much, it also means that I don't make the effort to write so much.

Mind you, if there was a way of directly downloading the stories I want to write from my brain without having to put them on paper (well, computer) then I'd have got through all the ones I have planned to write already. The trick at the moment will be not forgetting them before I get round to writing them.

1. Setting/scenario:
Having a bad day

2. Quote:
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - CS Lewis

3. Writing:
Write a story backwards

4. Five things:
Five times you cried

A list of nightmares I have had? Oh bloody hell.

- Dying alone. Though thanks to Tosh that didn't happen.
- Being killed by Weevils.
- Fuck being killed by anything we face.
- Never finding love again. Yes, I said it.
- Jack kissing me. What? He's bloody kissed everyone it seems.

Those are all I can think of right now.

Why Martha Jones hates 1973, part one.

(Further parts will be coming...well, eventually.)

Muse: Martha Jones
Fandoms: Doctor Who/Life on Mars
Words: 1278
Notes: Set during series 2 of LoM, in place of "Blink" in DWS3.

Don't forget I'll be doing an activity check on Tuesday


1. Single word:
Killing

2. Mun:
Is there anything you've learnt about your character since starting to write them?

3. Silly:
Time repeating itself

4. List:
Nightmares you've had

There's a funny thing about TARDISes -- or, at least, this specific TARDIS, who has lived through a Time War and seen the end of the greatest race to ever exist. Her brothers and sisters weren't much different, but this one TARDIS, she took this funny fact to new heights.

Because, as I'll explain, TARDISes? Are very jealous, very vindictive, very cruel creatures sometimes, and this TARDIS -- the Doctor's TARDIS -- was particularly so. She had to be, because her pilot was an idiot. A wonderful, brilliant, incredibly loved idiot, but an idiot nonetheless. And on occasion, he needed reminding of just how big an idiot he was.

(Like now. -- Contains minor spoilers for the three-minute End of Time clip for Children in Need)


Muse: The TARDIS
Word Count: 853
Prompt: A scene with no dialogue

When you put on the TV you find it's showing an adventure of yours

"Want to see what's on the telly?" Rose asked her little brother, Tony who just looked at her with wide eyes from his play pen. "I will take that as a yes." She grinned and flicked the remote.

"Ugh." She bypassed the soap that was currently playing and began to channel surf. There was a kaleidoscope of colors and sounds as one by one, Rose dismissed the offerings. "Seriously, why have I never noticed that there isn't anything on, on the weekends?"

"That might be because you spend all of your time at that place." Jackie said from the doorway. 'That place' being Torchwood that seemed to consume the lives of her husband and daughter. "I think I see less of you now than when you were traveling about with the Doctor."

Rose didn't bother to comment on that. It was the same argument that they'd had since she'd started there. Instead she silently watched the monitor though not really seeing or hearing what was being played. Rose was lost in her memories. That was, until Jackie's loud exclamation of "OH MY GOD" penetrated the fog.

( I do not look like that, you can see her roots )

Rose Tyler ~*~ Doctor Who ~*~ 732 words ~*~ Comments

1. Setting/scenario:
Meeting someone for the first time

2. Quote:
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. - Shirley Maclaine

3. Writing:
Pick a cliché that happens a lot in your character's canon and write a story where the opposite of that cliché happens

4. Five things:
Five dreams

1. Single word:
Mask

2. Mun:
What's the most important event in your character's past? Why's it important? If it hadn't happened would their life be different now?

3. Silly:
When you put on the TV you find it's showing an adventure of yours

4. List:
Hopes you have for the future

1. Setting/scenario:
Gunpowder plot


2. Quote:
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller


3. Writing:
Write a scene containing no dialogue but still includes communication


4. Five things:
Five explosions