NaNoWriMo 2014 Prompts for Week 3

Okay, I’m going to make this short and sweet since I’m still terribly behind. Maybe I’ll do a big NaNoWriMo post in December, after I’ve gotten some sleep.

Here’s the list of sprints I did for week 3 on @NaNoWordSprints:

November 15, 5:00pm-6:00pm (UTC -8)
Whisky Cocktails

• Rusty nail (10 min)
• Blue blazer (10 min)
• Four horsemen (15 min)

November 15, 8:00pm-10:00pm (UTC -8)
Sushi and the City: A Choose Your Own Prompt Sprint Session

• Run, roll, rush (10 min)
• Hitch a ride with a taxi, stand your ground and fight, keep rolling (30 min)
• The one with the chicken suits, the one selling chicken hats, the chicken print PJs store (10 min)
• a place posted on a flyer, something you overheard from a stranger, what your new friend suggests (5 min)
• Risk, Monopoly, Yahtzee (30 min)

November 16, 10:00pm-12:00am (UTC -8)
D Words 3x

• Delitescent, dulcify, deipnosophist (10 min)
• Deke, dyad, droke (10 min)
• Dilatory, diffident, deleterious (10 min)
• Disconcert, diaphanous, dubiety (30 min)
• Deliquesce, diktat, descant (10 min)
• Doff, dudgeon, diadem (15 min)

November 17, 8:00pm-1:00am (UTC -8)
Meanings of Popular Names/Nancy Drew Titles/Mushrooms Mashup

• Wisdom, the secret of the old clock, death cap (10 min)
• Whole or universal, the hidden staircase, the prince (20 min)
• Olive, the clue in teh diary, crocodile (30 min)
• Oath, the whispering statue, cloud ear (10 min)
• To breathe, the haunted bridge, puffball (30 min)
• Mine, beloved, the quest of the missing map, trumpet (10 min)
• Rival, the secret in the old attic, sweetbread (10 min)
• Joy, the witch tree symbol, hen of the woods (15 min)
• Strength in battle, the invisible intruder, bracelet (30 min)
• Abundance, the crooked banister, snowbank (10 min)
• Rest, comfort, the sky phantom, parasol (15 min)
• Will, desire, the strange message in the parchment, velvet foot (10 min)
• Heel, the thirteenth pearl, golden needle (30 min)

November 18, 10:00pm-1:00am (UTC -8)
San Diego Zoo 2015 Calendar

• Giant panda (10 min)
• Burrowing owl (30 min)
• Sumatran tiger (10 min)
• Tasmanian devil (20 min)
• Sloth bear (5 min)
• African elephant (10 min)
• Red-ruffed lemur (30 min)
• Koala (10 min)
• Wombat (not really in calendar) (10 min)

November 19, 9:00pm-1:00am (UTC -8)
Consecutive E Words in the Dictionary

• Enfold, enforce, enfranchise (10 min)
• Electric chair, electric eel, electric eye (30 min)
• Edgy, edible, edict (15 min)
• Echelon, echinoderm, echo (5 min)
• Epic, epicene, epicenter (30 min)
• Extraordinary, extrapolate, extrasensory (10 min)
• Evergreen, everlasting, evermore (15 min)
• Ether, ethereal, ethic (5 min)
• Espouse, espresso, esprit (30 min)
• Employment, emporium, empower (30 min)

November 20, 10:30am-12:00pm (UTC -8)
Ghost Hunting

• Survey the property (10 min)
• Hotspot (30 min)
• Moving objects (10 min)
• Mysterious lights (15 min)

November 20, 10:00pm-12:00am (UTC -8)
Dueling with the Inner Editor

• Satisfaction (10 min)
• Combat (30 min)
• Code of honor (15 min)
• Risking one’s life (20 min)
• An unavoidable meeting (15 min)

November 21, 9:00pm-10:00pm (UTC -8)
Wombat in an Alternate Universe: A Million Monkeys and Hamlet

• To thine own self be true (10 min)
• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go (20 min)
• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain (10 min)

NaNoWriMo 2014 Prompts for Week 2

Oh man. I’m totally behind and totally sleep deprived, but the sprinting must go on.

Here’s the list of sprints I did for week 2 on @NaNoWordSprints:

November 8, 12:00pm-2:30pm (UTC -8)
Double Entendres

• Passing wind strands ferry passengers (10 min)
• Dealers will hear car talk at noon (20 min)
• Enraged cow injures farmer with ax (30 min)
• Man struck by lightning faces battery charge (10 min)
• Red tape holds up new bridges (15 min)
• Kids make nutritious snacks (30 min)

November 8, 11:00pm-1:00am (UTC -8)
Oxymorons

• Sacred sins (30 min)
• Cruel kindness (10 min)
• Tense calm (30 min)
• Bland spice (10 min)
• Mean smile (10 min)

November 9, 8:30am-10:00am (UTC -8)
Room in the House/Guinea Pig Breeds/Unusual Hobbies Mashup

• Living room, crested, pooktre art (10 min)
• Dining room, ridgeback, growing your own furniture (30 min)
• Cellar, coronet, carving egg shells (10 min)
• Bedroom, Sheba Mini Yak, beetle fighting (10 min)

November 9, 7:00pm-10:00pm (UTC -8)
NaNoWriMo Sprints Generator: Bad Unicorns

• Grace unhinged (10 min)
• Untamable by almost no one (30 min)
• Ferocious (15 min)
• Innocence targeted (30 min)
• Sharp and pointy (10 min)
• Mistaken identity (5 min)
• Pride and wrath (30 min)

November 10, 12:20pm-1:20pm (UTC -8)
Ghostly Attributes

• Fetch (10 min)
• Vengeance (10 min)
• Harbinger (30 min)

November 10, 7:30pm-10:00pm (UTC -8)
Candy

• Almond joy (10 min)
• Whoppers (30 min)
• Life savers (10 min)
• Dragon’s beard (15 min)
• Snickers (30 min)
• Brittle (5 min)
• Jolly rancher (10 min)

November 11, 1:00pm-2:00pm (UTC -8)
Things To Do During Your Lunch Break

• Go to the dentist (10 min)
• Illicit tryst (30 min)
• Shopping (10 min)

November 11, 7:30pm-10:00pm (UTC -8)
Unbirthday

• Ribbon (10 min)
• Wrapping (10 min)
• Cards (5 min)
• Surprise (30 min)
• Chocolate (20 min)
• Cravat (15 min)
• Mad, tea, party (20 min)

November 12, 11:00am-12:00pm (UTC -8)
Wombat in an Alternate Universe: The Great Wombat

• Sudden appearance (10 min)
• Alertness (20 min)
• Kumquat (10 min)

November 12, 10:00pm-2:00am (UTC -8)
Books from the 1980s by Nora Roberts

• The Right Path (10 min)
• The Art of Deception (30 min)
• Sweet Revenge (15 min)
• Risky Business (30 min)
• Playing the Odds (10 min)
• Rules of the Game (15 min)
• Rebellion (30 min)
• Mind Over Matter (15 min)
• Lessons Learned (30 min)

November 13, 12:40pm-2:00pm (UTC -8)
C Words 3x

• Countervail, claque, cavalcade (10 min)
• Celerity, comport, collude (20 min)
• Clemency, condign, cosset (30 min)

November 13, 7:00pm-9:00pm (UTC -8)
Signage At the Living Room Coffeehouse

• Studious (10 min)
• Remember, as far as anyone knows, we are a nice normal family (30 min)
• Keep calm and carry on (30 min)
• He stole her heart so she stole his last name (30 min)

November 13, 11:00pm-2:00am (UTC -8)
Minority Cat Breeds, Famous Pirate Ships of the Elizabethan Age, and Famous Romance Novels Mashup

• Bramble, The Rising Sun, Pride and Prejudice (10 min)
• Highlander, Delivery, Mr. Impossible (10 min)
• Jungle Curl, The Ranger, Lord of Scoundrels (30 min)
• Skookum, Golden Hind, Welcome to Temptation (30 min)
• Desert Lynx, The Revenge, Paradise (10 min)
• Lambkin, Pearl, Slightly Dangerous (10 min)
• Napoleon Cat, Victory, Devil in Winter (30 min)

November 14, 10:00am-12:00pm (UTC -8)
Ghostly Idioms

• Ghost of a chance (10 min)
• Pale as a ghost (30 min)
• Give up the ghost (30 min)
• Ghost at the feast (10 min)
• Ghostwriting (10 min)

November 14, 8:30pm-10:30pm (UTC -8)
Rum Cocktails

• Dark and stormy (10 min)
• Brass monkey (30 min)
• Painkiller (10 min)
• Fluffy critter (10 min)
• Flaming volcano (30 min)

NaNoWriMo 2014 Prompts for Week 1

Yep, I’m doing @NaNoWordSprints again this year! As usual, I’m archiving all my prompts on this blog. Anything new this year? Well, some things were also hit or miss since I sometimes go totally out there for sprint themes. Apparently using the prompt “psycho” was very offensive to some people even though it was a prompt and I wasn’t accusing anyone of being a psycho (I also got the prompt from a list on TV Tropes so I didn’t make it up myself). The wombat sprints, however were very popular. I don’t identify myself at all when doing the wombat sprints, but I suspect I would gain a lot of Twitter followers if I did. Several people have declared me their favorite sprint leader during those sprints which is both flattering and a little humbling. I think there are some sprint leaders who do this far better than I do yet don’t get enough kudos…

Anyways, on to the week 1 prompts!

October 31, 5:00pm-8:00pm (UTC -8)
Things One Might Find In London

• Chase scene with umbrellas (15 min)
• Spooky building; bonus: tea drinking ghost (30 min)
• Clock tower (15 min)
• Metaphorical palace (30 min)
• Fish and chips (10 min)
• Bridge (20 min)
• Cab (15 min)

October 31, 11:00pm-3:00am (UTC -8)
Halloween

• Haunted house (20 min)
• Graveyard (30 min)
• Funny headgear (15 min)
• Decorative food (15 min)
• Unsettling noises (15 min)
• Getting the chills (20 min)
• Unusual activity (15 min)
• Sudden noise (5 min)
• Disturbance (30 min)
• Costumes and disguises (10 min)
• Unexpected guest (10 min)

November 1, 9:00pm-10:30pm (UTC -8)
Clue

• Miss Scarlett in the Hall with the dagger (15 min)
• Mrs. Peacock in the Kitchen with the lead pipe (10 min)
• Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the candlestick (30 min)
• Professor Plum in the Library with the rope (10 min)

November 2, 9:00am-11:00am (UTC -8)
Art At Lestat’s

• Portraits (15 min)
• Guitar (30 min)
• Blue hair (10 min)
• Abstraction (10 min)
• Stripes (20 min)

November 2, 3:00pm-5:00pm (UTC -8)
What You Would Find At The San Diego Library

• Shelves (15 min)
• A quiet hush (30 min)
• Catalogs and organization (10 min)
• Lamps (5 min)
• Obscure knowledge (30 min)

November 2, 9:30pm-12:00am (UTC -8)
Homonyms 3x

• Vale, vail, veil (10 min)
• Rain, reign, rein (30 min)
• Praise, prays, preys (15 min)
• Heirs, airs, errs (10 min)
• Pair, pare, pear (30 min)
• Read, reed, rede (10 min)
• Meat, meet, mete (10 min)

November 3, 11:30am-12:30pm (UTC -8)
Ghostly Verbs

• Shaking or rattling (10 min)
• Fluttering (20 min)
• Crackling or skittering (15 min)

November 3, 9:00pm-12:00am (UTC -8)
Things That Are Called Wombat But Aren’t Really Wombats

• A small town (10 min)
• A rock band (20 min)
• Asteroid (30 min)
• Broadcaster (10 min)
• Waste of money, brains and time (20 min)
• Mountain bikes and tea (30 min)
• Motorcycle (5 min)
• List (15 min)

November 4, 10:00pm-12:00am (UTC -8)
Ways To Cook Eggs

• Fried (10 min)
• Scrambled (10 min)
• Coddled (30 min)
• Poached (15 min)
• Deviled (30 min)

November 5, 2:00pm-4:00pm (UTC -8)
Headlines of the Books and Arts Section of the Scientific Journal Nature

• Behaving badly (10 min)
• When the body betrays (10 min)
• The first spark (30 min)
• Under the skin (5 min)
• Violin detective (10 min)

November 5, 10:00pm-12:00am (UTC -8)
The Evil Overlord Sprints

• Evil minions (15 min)
• Diabolical mastermind (30 min)
• Lean and mean (10 min)
• Psycho supporter (10 min)
• Tragic (30 min)

November 6, 7:10am-9:30am (UTC -8)
Words Without Consonants

• Ai (a type of sloth) (10 min)
• Aa (a type of lava) (30 min)
• Iouea (the taxonomic genus for sponges) (15 min)
• Euouae (a musical cadence from medieval music) (30 min)
• Aye-aye (a type of lemur) (10 min)
• Oioi (Hawaiian for “to squirm”) (5 min)
• Eua (Swahili for “to purify”) (30 min)

November 6, 11:00am-12:00pm (UTC -8)
Ghost Sprints

• Apparition (15 min)
• Shadow (20 min)
• Cold spot (10 min)

November 6, 3:00pm-4:00pm (UTC -8)
Wombat in an Alternate Universe: Idioms

• Bite the dust (10 min)
• Bent out of shape (10 min)
• Take the biscuit (20 min)

November 6, 7:00pm-9:30pm (UTC -8)
Q

• Quash (10 min)
• Quibble (10 min)
• Quickly (20 min)
• Quoting (30 min)
• Quiche (20 min)
• Quintet (5 min)
• Quarter (15 min)

November 7, 3:00pm-4:00pm (UTC -8)
Wombat in an Alternate Universe: Writer’s CPR

• Lifesaving (5 min)
• First aid (15 min)
• Good Samaritan (20 min)

November 7, 10:00pm-12:00am (UTC -8)
Script Frenzy Plot Machine

• After getting lost underground, a hairstylist with a missing finger discovers the meaning of life. (10 min)
• While picking cherries, an angry squirrel must open for Bjork. (30 min)
• On a space station filled with mimes, Zorro hijacks a bus with a stowaway on board. (5 min)
• With only a week left to live, a life-long bachelor swims across the Pacific Ocean. (10 min)
• Aided by a Swedish go-go dancer, a duck with a death-wish plots one final heist. (30 min)

The rest of my prompt archive can be found here.