A Few Optional Prompts!
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daysofawesome Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! I hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready!
As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!
As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts the other rules still apply.)
A few prompts:
About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):
- Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
- Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
- There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?
Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)
- The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
- Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
- There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?
Get ready to write!
