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.Zealous
A young doctor fights to contain an epidemic in a tight-knit community.
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Q4U: How might you spin this prompt in an unexpected direction? How about as steampunk, historical fiction, or a thriller?
Thanks for some great prompts this month! What if the community were a small, little-known tribe that then set the doctor up as their god after being cured? He would then have to fight against becoming corrupted by this power.
ReplyDeleteCool twist. That would be quite the dilemma!
DeleteHi Laurel - interesting prompts you've given us ... I guess the situation would very soon spin out of control - it certainly could be related back to early 'doctoring' and the plague --- keeping a village contained with no visitors and no exits ... well done on finishing off the A - Z with such an interesting Q4U ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeletehttp://positiveletters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/z-is-for-zebra-zoo-and-zedland.html
Forced quarantines have been notoriously difficult to maintain. So many possibilities for things to go wrong.
DeleteThanks for your support throughout the A-Z!
Funny thing with today's prompt. I think I've read a few books on zealous doctors trying to save communities from epidemics and maybe even saw a few movies.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finishing the challenge.
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It's said there aren't any truly new premises, only new presentations. So how could you take this concept to a new milieu?
DeleteAwesome. That prompt actually reminds me of a TV show I love: The Last Ship. Such a great concept.
ReplyDeleteIt would work in a lot of settings across time, human cultures, or even planets. It's the presentation that would make it unique, rather than the basic premise, which has been done plenty.
DeleteAh, but is he trying to cure them or keep them sick and dependent on him?
ReplyDeleteHi Laurel. Just wanted to thank you for stopping by my blog a few days ago and congratulate for finishing the challenge. Pity we didn't meet first, but they, there is a life after the challenge ;-)
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