The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 21

May 12th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Character sketches Mondays

Prophesy is a funny thing. So when Prince Lawrence was visited by the local seer on his thirteenth birthday, he was dismayed to find out he is not the Chosen One, or a Hero, or the Savior. He was destined to be a good and fair king during the time of peace his mother, Queen Ophelia, orchestrated. His biggest problems would be taxes and trade. It would be a golden age of his kingdom.

And utterly, completely boring.

So he runs away. Leaves his kingdom, becomes a traveling bard. Attaches himself to adventuring types. Encourages the husbandry of monsters. The country begins to slide into chaos, the queen is assassinated, and no one knows where this selfish prince is.

The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily blog post featuring an idea for you to take and do with what you will. Read more about it here. This post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. You can take this idea, change it, make something new, and even make money off of it. All I ask is if you create something - anything! - that this post inspired you to make, please link back here.

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  1. Comment by Jeff Hite on 13 May 2008:

    I love this series. I think it is a great way to keep the brain working. I can’t always come up with something for my daily writing, when I am not working on a large project so I use the ModeRoom random idea generator. It is a lot of fun sometimes. The challenge I give my self is use not just one of the ideas, but all 5 that it gives you at once.

    For example here are the most recent ones:

    Imagine a conman earning his keep
    With a large brown cockroach
    the sky is of sweet buttered cream
    and we laugh like a pool full of children
    while the nurse enters with a sleeping pill

    They don’t go together and any one of them would be enough to spark the imagination, but tie them all together and you get something totally different and a lot of fun to do. A lot of times they just end up being silly or tied into some other story from pop culture but it keeps me on my toes.

    I did one on Adam and Eve last week that was almost good enough to be published.

    Thanks for the daily dose of inspiration.

    -Jeff

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