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1. Write about one of the characters finishing something, finding closure, putting something haunting to rest, finally and completely. 2. Use these things in a story:
3. Harper persuades someone else to indulge in Sparky Cola and they seriously overdo it. What happens! 4. Give the crew of the Andromeda a day off. Let them
have a moment of fun.
5. Answer this question: When Dylan gave Rommie his medal at the end of the episode and then wiped his brow, why in the world was his hand shaking so badly? Was it because Rommie looked so "human"? Was it because she'd acted so strong independently? Was it because she'd killed so many people? Was it because her shirt was unzipped halfway to her navel? Was it because he'd been without a woman for so long? Was it because he realized she was so much MORE than just a warship? Was it just the intensity of the bonding moment when he realized how much he needed and respected her as a partner? 6. Write a non-sexual use for the phrase: First zip, then fasten. 7. Write a short scene or story featuring someone in a
bubble bath. It doesn't have to be the main theme, there just has to be
one in the story. To inspire you, here are a couple of possibilities.
8. Why doesn't Harper use a comb? 9. How does Trance get into those skintight outfits without hurting her tail? 10. What would happen if Beka decided to turn her hair plaid? 11. What was the last thing Tyr said to his mother before he left her and she was killed? 12. How did Dylan propose to Sarah? 13. Write a songfic using the words to the song as part
of the actual story. How? Use the words as part of the plot. The characters
can act out the song in part or whole. They can say a few of the song's
lyrics. Just don't write out the lyrics as a separate part of the story.
For example:
14. One of the characters scoffs at a fortune cookie fortune and pays for it! 15. Write a story that includes the following:
16. Trap a character in an avalanche with room to breathe for a while. Do they get themselves out? Reflect on life? Panic? Get rescued? Die? Repent? Go insane? 17. Dialogue only story. Use no qualifiers (he said, she asked.) This doesn't mean you have to use dialect. People can be distinguished by what they say and how they say it. 18. Secret admirer challenge: A character has a secret admirer. Is it a lover, a stalker a murderer? 19. Submitted by Amber: Have a character tell a child a story or explain something complex to them (i.e., a death in the family, moving out of town, why the sun sets.) Keep in mind that the language used to speak to a child is usually very simple-not baby talk, but short, very understandable words. 20. A natural disaster strikes and your characters must cope. Use any disaster, flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, blizzard, volcano, melting polar ice caps, asteroid... How does your character react? Do they save themselves or help others? Hide or organize relief efforts? Explore the character's personality. How people react to stress tells a lot about them. 21. Have a character struck dumb (can't talk) and either blind or deaf. How do they communicate? 22. A main character wins a cruise or a trip to a very strange planet. 23. An extreme heat wave makes characters delusional. 24. Imagine you are a very young child who is old enough to see well, but doesn't know what they are looking at. Describe what you see, feel, hear and smell. Which character are you? 25. Someone finds out they're going to die. Have them write a letter to their loved ones to be read after they die, i.e., a child, best friend, lover, parents... 26. Strand two people on top of a Ferris Wheel or high up on a rollercoaster. Hey, I've seen it happen! How do they react? What do they see, hear and smell? Are they grateful for the time alone? Do they argue? Is one afraid of heights? 27. Send characters from one fandom to another. Make sure that it is something that would really create a change for those characters. Submitted by Amber 28. A character has a distinguishing feature. How do others react? How does that character explain the feature? Is it good or is it bad? Submitted by Amber 29. A character gets to go on the trip of a lifetime. What happens to them? Does everything go well? Is it a disaster? Do they go alone or do they meet someone there? Submitted by Amber 30. An arranged marriage is made and its time for the wedding. How does it come about? Is it set up by the parents? Is the bride to be a slave and sold? Is it a contest? What happens during the wedding and after? Is everything good or does it all take a turn for the worse? Submitted by Amber 31. Use these things in a story:
32. Close your eyes. Imagine a cool misty spray of water hitting your face. Which character are you? Where are you and what's happening? 33. Close your eyes. Imagine a warm breeze carrying the scent of lilacs washes over your face. Who are you? Where are you? You take it from there. 34. Use these items in a story:
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36. A character has a dream/hallucination that they are pregnant. The catch? They can be male or female. How do they react? How did they get pregnant? 37. Use these in a story
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40. Write a short romantic mystery including these:
41. Write a short, funny story including these:
42. Use these in a story
43. Have your characters relive the Titanic or a ship wreck. They could be dreaming or sick and having delusions or daydreaming while watching a film or acting in a play or telling a story to a child or group, you tell us. They can be alone or not. 44. Imagine your favorite characters when they are old. Have them tell a story of their past to a child or in front of a group. 45. Use one of these lines from published novels as the
first line in a story:
46. Use a line from Shakespeare as the first line of a story 47. Write a scene using a non-canon character viewing things inside the fandom. For example: an alien viewing the Star Trek characters from the alien's point of view, a criminal being booked in a crime series or a victim being helped or a spouse sitting at home worrying about their significant other (the canon character.) 48. Put two characters that absolutely despise each other into a situation where they have to be around each other constantly for a short period of time. What happens? Do they get along? Do they end up trying to kill each other? 49. A characters gets the opportunity to meet a celebrity. How does it happen? Do they go through with it? What is the outcome? 50. A character has a one night stand with someone, resulting in a pregnancy/child. What happens? Does the mother tell the father immediately does she wait? How does she tell the father? What is his reaction? What does the child think, if they are old enough? 51. A character is trapped in a violent natural disaster. What kind of disaster is it? What happens to them? Are they rescued? Do they perish? Does this give them time to think and make decisions based on their past? 52. A character gets amnesia 53. A character gets asked to participate in a famous play, or goes undercover as an actor in a play. Pick whatever play you like, Little Women, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, A Christmas Carol, whatever. 54. Write a short story from the point of view of a background character--someone who never or seldom has lines on the show. 55.Someone is watching home movies. It can be one character or more. Someone could show another person's home movies as a joke at a party. Or one person could relive their past. 56. Drop a character into a lot of water and assume they can't swim, for one reason or another. It can be an ocean, a swimming pool, a vat. Maybe they're being interrogated or fell off a boat. 57. Write a romantic story. Make it as sweet and sappy as you want. The catch? The two parties cannot physically meet during the entire story. They call speak to each other, see each other from a distance or through glass, but they can't touch each other or be in the same room at the same time. Hey, the most romantic story I ever saw was an ep of The Outer Limits that did this exact thing until the end. 58. A character has to tell someone that they are pregnant. 59. A character wants or needs something from another but cannot ask in words. They have to use body language to ask for what they need or want. Does the other person understand them the first time? Are there a lot of interruptions? 60. Write about spring. Is your character happy to hear the music of the melting ice or dismayed because they hate spring? 61. Write a story using your favorite line from a book or a song as the first sentence. 62. A character wins a million dollars in a contest or sweepstakes. What do they do with it? 63. A character who is normally upright and very good, suddenly gets arrested. What did they do and why? What happens to them while in jail? 64. Write a story from a headline in the newspaper. 65. Look at the comics section of the paper. Pick a comic strip and write a story around the plot or pictures of the comic. 66. Imagine your favorite hymn or Christmas carol is being sung. It's beautiful and haunting. Write a story involving it or your characters feelings when they hear it. 67. There is a hot streak-- a very very hot streak in your imagined world. Suddenly, cool water is leaking from somewhere: a small dam, a fire hydrant, a freak rainstorm...whatever. How do your characters react? 68. Write a story as if a character were writing a steamy romance story to be posted on the Internet, or sent in to a flexi newspaper. 69. One of the male characters is lying on a beach, sleeping. He wakes to find that one of his crewmates has built, out of sand, a female body around him. How does he react? 70. As one of the characters, write about a smell you remember from childhood and all the memories associated with it. For example: The yeasty warm scent of baking bread swirled around me, transporting me back to my Momma's kitchen. I was four and couldn't see over the countertop. My brother and sisters argued on the porch outside the window, but Momma kept baking as though to save her sanity. Or, write about how Rommie feels to NOT have this type of memory. 71. One of the characters gets their fortune read or told by a spooky old woman. Is it good, bad, revealing or comforting for the character? Does it come to pass in your story or is it for the distant future? Only you can decide! Enjoy! 72. Answer this question:
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75. Take an old legend and rewrite it using the characters from the show. Adapt it to modern times, or write it its original time period with an explanation for how the characters got there. Ie: the Legend of Sleepyhollow—the characters are dreaming, acting, delusional, have time traveled, or come up with an original explanation. 76. A character walks into their room to find it stuffed full of flowers. Why are they there? Who put them there? Is the character happy or upset? Are they allergic? Is it a romance, mystery, or humorous story? 77. Have a character be visited by the ghost of a dead loved one. Are they frightened? Happy? Sad? 78. A character gets in an accident in which they're unconscious for a while. When they wake, they find they are the leaders of a cult. 79. A character or two get caught in the middle of a coup. Do they take sides? Get captured? Get hurt? Run and hide? Help someone they find injured? Make a profit? You decide. 80. The person you'd least expect has to pose as a go-go dancer or there will be dire consequences. 81. A MALE main character is kidnapped and auctioned of as… what? Food? A slave? A personal escort? Something else? 82. Write a poem or filk about the show. 83. Create a challenge of your own. 84. Send the characters on a scavenger hunt. They must find: a child's pacifier, a woman's panties- not their own, a feather, a clown's nose, and 2 or 3 things that you think up. 85. Write a poem about how Fall makes one of the characters feel. 86. Write in the style of the Twilight Zone -- slightly surreal with a twist at the end. 87. Write a story in which every line of dialogue includes the name of a type of candy. 88. Write a story in which ALL of the dialogue is a song lyric. Use as many songs as you want, but try to list them after the story so we can try to figure out which ones they were. 89. On shore leave one of the characters is attacked by a swarm of birds. 90. the crew attends a Masquerade. Someone falls in love. Someone goes missing. Someone else screams, "Let them eat cake!" 91. They help a seemingly innocent person who's being pursued and find out later the person is a serial killer. 92. They visit a "Dinosaur Planet." Is it an attraction, like Jurassic Park or a place where dinosaur's roam naturally? 93. Hohne's kids or family seek revenge on Harper for his death. 94. Crossover Drom with Dr. Who. 95. Crossover Drom with Farscape. 96. Write en excerpt from one of the crew's diary. 97. One of the crew finds another's diary and reads it. 98. As a diplomatic gesture to a matriarchal planet, the men of the Andromeda must all enter a beauty contest. 99. Celebrate Trance's birthday. 100. Something the crew is exposed to or eats makes them act out their innermost emotions, fears, desires or fantasies. 101. What if: Elsbett had gotten pregnant by Dylan? 102. What if: When Dylan went back in time and visited Sara, he got her pregnant? 103. What if: Rev had decided to stay on the ship? |