Prompt Tables

Jul. 24th, 2015 08:21 am
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I threw together some lists from the generator, deleted out the material I didn't want, and generated a few prompt tables for my friend who's been on the hunt for prompts. At some point (probably soon), I'll write up my own prompt list.



Card #001



Immortals Fear DeathCooking with LoveStorytellingRegenerationHard SF
Always PreparedAlternate/Parallel UniverseBouquet of FlowersCop on the TakeHe's My Brother
Mundane SFSpace OperaFREE SPACEElectromagnetismHuman Development
ChildlessMulti-poweredShapeshiftingExtended familySearching for the Perfect Gift
SuperintelligenceTimebendingVibrationPhysics ManipulationPower Manipulation





Card #002



Fairytale FantasyTeleportationChildfreeArranged

marriage		Family of choice
Father & sonPsychokinesisCooking with LoveOne big happy familySearching for the Perfect Gift
DystopiaMutantsFREE SPACEGrow a PairFlight
Molecular ManipulationHard SFHe Ain't HeavyRummage Sale / Antique ShopRobots/Androids
Enhanced DexterityMother / Father Knows BestTemporaryReactive AdaptationCute Bookworm






Card #003



Undying LoyaltyAstral ProjectionDystopiaNo Sense of HumorPlant Control
Marriage of convenienceDynamic CamouflageUtopiaHoliness Burns EvilUplift
SteampunkThermal ResistanceFREE SPACEHates Being TouchedSpace Opera
Meeting in a TreehouseNanotechnologyPortal CreationStuck in the SnowSearching for the Perfect Gift
Learning a New SkillMachine EmpathyComic FantasyEcological EmpathyAdopted



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Date: 2015-07-26 05:10 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I was going to ask where you got the list/how you made the tables. I was going to try rearranging one of the tables, thinking maybe if I did that I could group some by story world, maybe combine the ones that fit the historical fire and water universe together since most of my thoughts have been scattered across almost every story world I've got otherwise.

Date: 2015-07-26 06:10 am (UTC)
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Tables are randomly generated. You have to edit the list. I'll send you the edited list I made before you nixed a few more come Monday. The generator is at http://an.owomoyela.net/fun/bingo_generator
Edited Date: 2015-07-26 06:10 am (UTC)

Date: 2015-07-26 06:58 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Okay. I figured they were pretty random but I was struggling to organize myself into any kind of response to any of the prompts on the tables you made and thought maybe if I reordered them I'd be able to make some kind of progress instead of bouncing back and forth with no real thoughts other than what story might work best for the prompt if not drawing total blanks.

That and I found the free prompt generators for iOS to be very less than helpful so I was hoping to find some means of focusing myself on one story for a while.

Date: 2015-07-26 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I meant to say, too, that I thought it might be less work for you if I "fixed" them, since I am such a pain and have so many things I don't do. It was so nice of you to make them in the first place, and I didn't want to make you do more or anything because I'm so... difficult and impossible.

Date: 2015-07-26 01:40 pm (UTC)
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You're not a pain or impossible or difficult. You have crippling low self esteem that talking bad to and about yourself makes worse. What you say and focus on is generally a self-fulfilling prophecy. I have no difficulty being your friend and doing stuff for you. My speed just varies because I help a LOT of people.

Date: 2015-07-26 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
At the risk of being more self-doubting, i had been worried about it... I didn't want it to seem like I was ungrateful for what you'd done. I really am glad you were willing to make the tables for me. I just wasn't able to organize my thoughts on them and kept being tripped up by the ones that I couldn't do. if I fixed it myself, then I wasn't causing more problems/creating more work.

I would like to say it's just the stress I've been under for the past few months making me this bad, but I had issues before. I did try and rebuild at least my writing support network... It didn't go well, as you know. That... That I really do feel makes it worse. I was trying to find a counterbalance to losing one of my oldest supports and felt like I got kicked down farther.

I don't want to ask too much of you or annoy you, but I don't have many people left to ask and I am afraid I will do something like I did that pushed the others away.

Date: 2015-07-26 03:19 pm (UTC)
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You're going to have a hard time getting rid of me because I was a suicidal depressed kid for the first ten to fourteen years of my life and hated everything, especially myself, and said so. When I learned how to control my words and force myself to acknowledge value in what I loved, I was able to come out of it. Mostly. I have relapses like everyone else who's ever battled depression, but I will throw out there the more you rag down on yourself, the less likely your view of yourself is going to change.

But because I've been there, I know this stuff from the inside out, I have patience and am not going anywhere. You need a friend who loves you unconditionally and as far as I'm concerned, that's me. I'm tactless and I do get exasperated every so often and I'm opinionated and always overbooked because I don't understand how to not go off in a thousand directions at once. But I'm here. And I'm here for you. And that's not going to change.

Date: 2015-07-26 04:13 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
My friend has had me do those self-esteem talks and "say x things you like about yourself" type exercises before, but I always feel stupid doing them and that makes it worse so they don't help. I was doing a lot better at stopping negative thoughts and changing my mental subjects before everything went... wrong. I haven't been able to manage much of the countering because things do look really bad and I can't find a way out and the one shelter I had I writing has crumbled on me a lot.

I do appreciate what you do and...

Well, there are no good words to respond to a pledge like that so...

*hugs hard and cries lots*

Date: 2015-07-26 04:16 pm (UTC)
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:hugs back:

I kind of hate those exercises. I think the not speaking negatives is more important than the other. I never did the other, just stopped the self-hate, verbally before emotionally. But whatever works for you, and I mean that.

Date: 2015-07-26 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I think they have a place with the right people, but I wasn't one of them, just like I fall into that percentage of people medication doesn't help.

I made an effort when I knew I was dwelling negatively mentally to change the subject. I'd clamp down hard when the memories my brain tormented me with resurfaced and I'd switch topics, usually to writing but not always. It was working, mostly, and I was managing and hadn't been really low and then... I don't know. I lost it and a lot of stuff has gone wrong and I can't do it as effectively when I either can't write or can't find a more positive mental subject and when so much is going wrong or there are what seems like huge obstacles to writing/publishing, that doesn't work.

Date: 2015-07-26 02:31 pm (UTC)
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So how I made the list was I selected three or four likely categories offered in the generator linked above and then cut them out of the list box, deleted off everything I could quickly see was out, then pasted it back in and generated a couple times (which led to more deletions) until I got a couple cards I thought would work.

Next time, I'm just making my own list.

Date: 2015-07-26 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I was thinking about that... Like maybe taking old prompts I'd liked but didn't do or maybe editing lyrics down to band names or shorter thoughts to make them fit table wise. Mostly I had that thought because of the genre prompts being a bit... too vague when I am looking for a jump start within a novel/story world that already fits a genre.

it might also work to remix things in that jogged fic before but could maybe spin a new direction.

Date: 2015-07-26 03:16 pm (UTC)
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I was going to grab old prompts that I've held onto (because they're good) and throw them all together and/or add a few things I just like.

So...

In short, I'll post a set of lists (different categories for different things) sometime next week with intent for feedback. You can suggest edits, and I'll clean up what I like or don't, and whenever we need new prompt sets, we can spin up a card or five from any list or combination thereof.

Date: 2015-07-26 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Sounds good.

Just as general heads up...

I will be leaving Thursday and we're driving there so I probably won't manage much in depth feedback then, but since we weren't invited to the rehearsal I believe Friday will be low key and I'll try for it then if I haven't done it before then, though Saturday is my cousin's wedding and I'll be... busy.

Date: 2015-07-26 04:12 pm (UTC)
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Roger that. :salutes:

:hugs and blessings on the wedding and all events and travel:

Date: 2015-07-26 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Thanks. *hugs back*

I'm hoping it goes well, though I'm stressing out a lot and afraid my cat will die while I'm gone (it was so very helpfully pointed out to me that I could have him put to sleep before I left if I was that concerned... Hence part of my bad weekend.)
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