Welcome, A-Z Blogging Challenge friends. This year, my theme is Prompt-a-day, with fun or thought-provoking writing prompts to use as a story start, warm up, or creativity stretching exercise.Optimism
After living in underground bunkers for generations, a team of survivors gets good news from probes that contamination levels are no longer dangerous.
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Q4U: How might you spin this prompt in an unexpected direction? How about as middle grade or time-travel romance?
Hi Laurel - well I'm glad I haven't been shut in an underground bunker for years ... me - I'd swing open the doors and marvel at nature ... and then go get my books and find out all the plants, birds, insects names ... that should let me lead a peaceful life for a while ... then I might think about writing something! Cheers Hilary
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After a major environmental catastrophe, I imagine the old species might not exist, but new ones emerge. Surely it would be fascinating to study them.
DeleteOut of the bunkers! Yay!
ReplyDeleteSurely there would be some major celebrating happening. Thanks for coming by!
DeleteI read that prompt and thought: The City of Ember! Cool book.
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I remember my daughter loving the graphic novel version, and the movie.
DeleteLike Tamara, I thought of The City of Ember too. It was a great book. :) It's a great writing prompt too.
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I believe Hugh Howey's Wool series has folks living in underground bunkers too. I was kind of mashing up that with Wall-E. Have fun giving it your own unique spin.
DeleteInteresting prompt! It's interesting to this about a post-apocalyptic story with some hope for a future. Thanks for sharing:)
ReplyDeleteRight, sort of late-post-apocalypse, when the crisis is over, and generations later, there's a chance to start fresh, which comes with its own complications.
DeleteIt would be so cool to surface. Everything is new to the those in that bunker (assuming life spans have not lengthened). After a day of glee and dancing on the surface, they get to work They walk around identifying unchanged plant life from historical photos that their ancestors left behind. They figure out what they can and can't eat so they can finally stop eating Twinkies and Tang.
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Yeah, canned goods or worse--insta-food tablets--would get old pretty fast. It would be an exciting, and quite scary thing to come into the light and face the unknown.
DeleteLooking for an inspiring prompt. This one won't do for the story I need to write, but it will be cool to use sometime!
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Stay tuned, I'll have more coming through April 30. My book linked above might have more of what you're looking for--with 1001 prompts, there is a lot of variety.
DeleteI could have a lot of fun with this one. I've watched and read enough that use it already, so it might take some thought to spin it my own way though.
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Enjoy. Lots of things could have pushed them underground, so there are many things they could feasibly face coming to the surface again.
Deletethe survivors comes up again but find that everything has changed including the people who have sprouted wings and travel the sky like birds and live in castles floating in the sky. the survivors are okay for a time but one of them gets killed learning to fly with man-made wings. The rest of the survivors soon realize they are relics and they belong back down below where they have been rebuilding their old city using what they had. so they return back down, never to be seen again. the end.
ReplyDeleteI think changes scares people and death attributes to it, that's seem to be the story I'm thinking of. I like a more positive approach but somehow I couldn't reach it.
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Ah, the bittersweet sort of tale, in which change isn't what the bunkers-dwellers thought it would be. Sounds cool. Sad, but cool.
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