April Flowers Festival: The Prompts
Tomorrow is the 1st April when the April Flowers Festival will officially kick off :)
To get your creative juices flowing and allow the planners amongst you to plan, here’s a full list of the festival prompts. We hope there’s something (or several somethings) in there that will inspire you!
Don’t forget, you can’t post your work until the prompt for that day has been opened by the mods!
Full rules here in case you missed them.
1.
2. New beginnings
3. One or more letters or diary entries.
4. Blue
5.
6.
"April all through the day, like a skein of cloth. Warmth upon the hands, the feet. The first day of spring is like the first principle. Life ought always to be like that. Perhaps it could be. He wondered if that was what life was like at all times for someone who'd been enlightened, a saint, someone with perfect equanimity. To be called out of yourself so entirely, it required the orchestration of every living thing. For half the world to have died in winter and be reborn at the saying of spring's name."
- Samedi the Deafness
7. Flashback
8. Growth
9. A scene far in the future of the Chalion-verse, perhaps Isara playing the role of the Daughter in the Daughter's Day ceremony, but it could be anything
10. Learning
11.
"When the man arises who can make you laugh, solemn Ista, angry Ista, iron Ista, then your heart will be healed."
Paladin of Souls, chapter 11
12.
13. A story told through scenes in reverse chronological order
14.
"And with each passing day
The stories we say
Draw us tighter into our addiction
Confirm our conviction
That some kind of miracle
Passed on our hands
And how I am sure
Like never before
Of my reasons for defying reason
Embracing the seasons
We dance through the colors
Both followed and led
Strange how we fit each other"
-Eric's Song by Vienna Teng
15.
16. Sunlight
17. letters between Cazaril and Betriz during the campaign to retake Gotorget
18.
"No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God
When they've lost all they've got and they don't know what for
No one laughs at God
On the day they realize that the last sight they'll ever see
Is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God
When they're saying their goodbyes"
-Laughing With by Regina Spektor
19. Wisdom
20.
21. Crossover
22. Festival
23.
"Keep moving way up high
You see the light
It shines forever
Sail through the crimson skies
The purest light
The light that sets you free
If time will set you free"
You Can Still Be Free by Savage Garden
24.
25. Birds building a nest
26.
"And what's that to any man, whether or no
Whether I'm easy, or whether I'm true
As I lifted her petticoat, easy and slow
And I tied up my sleeve for to buckle her shoe"
From a Sean O Casey play. Ronnie Drew's version here
27. Poetry
28. Rain
29. Missing scene
30.
To get your creative juices flowing and allow the planners amongst you to plan, here’s a full list of the festival prompts. We hope there’s something (or several somethings) in there that will inspire you!
Don’t forget, you can’t post your work until the prompt for that day has been opened by the mods!
Full rules here in case you missed them.
1.
2. New beginnings
3. One or more letters or diary entries.
4. Blue
5.
6.
"April all through the day, like a skein of cloth. Warmth upon the hands, the feet. The first day of spring is like the first principle. Life ought always to be like that. Perhaps it could be. He wondered if that was what life was like at all times for someone who'd been enlightened, a saint, someone with perfect equanimity. To be called out of yourself so entirely, it required the orchestration of every living thing. For half the world to have died in winter and be reborn at the saying of spring's name."
- Samedi the Deafness
7. Flashback
8. Growth
9. A scene far in the future of the Chalion-verse, perhaps Isara playing the role of the Daughter in the Daughter's Day ceremony, but it could be anything
10. Learning
11.
"When the man arises who can make you laugh, solemn Ista, angry Ista, iron Ista, then your heart will be healed."
Paladin of Souls, chapter 11
12.
13. A story told through scenes in reverse chronological order
14.
"And with each passing day
The stories we say
Draw us tighter into our addiction
Confirm our conviction
That some kind of miracle
Passed on our hands
And how I am sure
Like never before
Of my reasons for defying reason
Embracing the seasons
We dance through the colors
Both followed and led
Strange how we fit each other"
-Eric's Song by Vienna Teng
15.
16. Sunlight
17. letters between Cazaril and Betriz during the campaign to retake Gotorget
18.
"No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God
When they've lost all they've got and they don't know what for
No one laughs at God
On the day they realize that the last sight they'll ever see
Is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God
When they're saying their goodbyes"
-Laughing With by Regina Spektor
19. Wisdom
20.
21. Crossover
22. Festival
23.
"Keep moving way up high
You see the light
It shines forever
Sail through the crimson skies
The purest light
The light that sets you free
If time will set you free"
You Can Still Be Free by Savage Garden
24.
25. Birds building a nest
26.
"And what's that to any man, whether or no
Whether I'm easy, or whether I'm true
As I lifted her petticoat, easy and slow
And I tied up my sleeve for to buckle her shoe"
From a Sean O Casey play. Ronnie Drew's version here
27. Poetry
28. Rain
29. Missing scene
30.
