NaNoWordSprints Prompts from April 2020 (Part 2)

by syaffolee

Here are the prompts I tweeted out on NaNoWordSprints during April 16-30 for Camp NaNoWriMo!

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April 16, 2020, 12:00pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
List of Idioms, Part 8

10 min	in focus
20 min	in the fast lane
30 min	jump through hoops
10 min	keep someone company
20 min	kindred soul
30 min	leave behind
10 min	lick one’s wounds
15 min	look before you leap
30 min	make a move
5 min	make up one’s mind

 

April 17, 2020, 12:15pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
Miscellaneous

10 min	lavender	sentimental, nostalgic, fragrant
20 min	amber	history, autumn, earthiness
30 min	caterpillar	phases and stages
10 min	butterfly	change is coming
15 min	bee	get organized
30 min	ant	community and working together
10 min	peach	pure spirit, gentleness, tenderness
20 min	fuschia	communication and compassion
30 min	indigo	devotion, justice, wisdom

 

April 18, 2020, 12:00pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
Gemstone Folklore

10 min	diamond	tears of the gods
20 min	emerald	predicting future events
30 min	opal	keeping others from seeing you
10 min	aquamarine	calming stormy waters
20 min	pearl	wisdom gained through experience
30 min	ruby	protection, courage, and strength
10 min	sapphire	mystery and intrigue
10 min	spinel	confused identity
30 min	topaz	healing
10 min	malachite	making the sale

 

April 18, 2020, 8:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

10 min	“Man’s memory shapes its own Eden within.”
20 min	“Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.”
30 min	“The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.”
10 min	“Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.”
20 min	“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
30 min	“What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men.”
10 min	“There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
10 min	“The unicorn, because of its own anomaly, will pass unnoticed. Our eyes see what they are accustomed to seeing.”
30 min	“There exists a corner that I dare not cross.”
10 min	“I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.”

 

April 19, 2020, 11:00am-3:00pm (UTC-8)
Quotes from Books by L. M. Montgomery

10 min	“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
20 min	“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it.”
30 min	“…I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”
10 min	“Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.”
20 min	“I’m just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They’re beautiful and mocking.”
30 min	“She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her.”
5 min	“People who are different from other people are always called peculiar.”
10 min	“I don’t really care what people think about me if they don’t let me see it.”
30 min	“I know I haven’t much sense or sobriety, but I’ve got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.”
15 min	“Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.”

 

April 19, 2020, 4:00pm-8:00pm (UTC-8)
Ingmar Bergman Quotes

5 min	Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
15 min	For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
30 min	I haven’t put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
15 min	I make all my decisions on intuition.
20 min	I’m very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
30 min	When you’re as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
10 min	I have such difficulty calming down – my stomach, my head, reality, everything.
15 min	If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
30 min	My education was very tough.
10 min	There is something joyous about not talking.

 

April 19, 2020, 9:00pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
Namibian Proverbs

10 min	Learning expands great souls.
20 min	When a tiny toe is hurting the whole body stoops down to attend to it.
30 min	Envy and greed grow on the same stalk.
10 min	Let the first urge pass, wait for the second.
20 min	When the fish gets rotten, it all starts from the head.
10 min	From little date seeds, great things are born.
30 min	Love is a despot who spares no one.
10 min	When the fox is hungry, he eats butterflies.
10 min	God is in the details and so is the devil.
30 min	An old monkey never forgets how to climb trees.

 

April 20, 2020, 11:00am-3:00pm (UTC-8)
Japanese Idioms

10 min	one’s act, one’s profit
20 min	ten men, ten colors
30 min	wake from death and return to life
10 min	pulling water to my own rice paddy
20 min	evil cause, evil effect
30 min	not seeing is a flower
10 min	the weak are meat; the strong eat
10 min	ocean thousand, mountain thousand
30 min	drunken life, dreamy death
10 min	one life, one encounter

 

April 21, 2020, 8:00am-12:00pm (UTC-8)
Icelandic Magical Staves

10 min	Ægishjálmur	To induce fear, protect the warrior, and prevail in battle
20 min	Draumstafir	To dream of unfulfilled desires
30 min	Kaupaloki	To prosper in trade and business
10 min	Lásabrjótur	To open a lock without a key
20 min	Varnarstafur	Increases favor and happiness
30 min	Vegvísir	To guide people through rough weather
10 min	Þjófastafur	For use against thieves
10 min	Stafur til að vekja upp draug	To invoke ghosts and evil spirits
30 min	Skelkunarstafur	To make your enemies afraid
10 min	Tóustefna	To ward off foxes

 

April 21, 2020, 12:00pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
Algerian Proverbs

10 min	A secret for two, soon a secret for nobody
20 min	Cross the loud river but don’t cross the silent one
30 min	Patience is the key to paradise
10 min	The one whose belly isn’t full of straw isn’t afraid of fire
20 min	Peace wins over wealth
30 min	The hand which gives is better than the one which receives
10 min	There is an excess of familiarity at the root of all hostility
10 min	A friend is someone who shares your happiness and your pains
30 min	A sensible enemy is better than a narrow-minded friend
10 min	The one who shows his fears ensures his salvation

 

April 22, 2020, 8:00am-12:00pm (UTC-8)
Talismans

10 min	secrets
20 min	luck and protection
30 min	have a hand in something
10 min	surveillance and attention
20 min	four
30 min	grant wishes, win gambling, ward off evil spirits
10 min	banana
10 min	healing
30 min	fire
10 min	decorations

 

April 22, 2020, 12:00pm-3:00pm (UTC-8)
The Geomantic Figures, Part 1

10 min	roads, travels, or journeys
20 min	ending or completing things
30 min	aggression and passion
10 min	success that is dependent on outside help
20 min	beauty, peace, and passivity
30 min	loss, outside of one’s grasp
15 min	delays, setbacks, or bindings

 

April 22, 2020, 7:00pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
The Geomantic Figures, Part 2

10 min	joy or happiness
20 min	starting or beginning new things
15 min	recovering things
15 min	sadness or mourning
10 min	getting or obtaining things
20 min	deception, violence, and vice
15 min	good fortune
15 min	a large number of people
15 min	peace, wisdom, and purity

 

April 23, 2020, 12:00pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
The Book of Changes, Part 1

10 min	strong action
20 min	going with the flow
30 min	gathering support
10 min	youthful folly
20 min	arriving
30 min	conflict
10 min	leading
10 min	holding together
30 min	the taming power of the small
10 min	treading

 

April 24, 2020, 8:00am-12:00pm (UTC-8)
The Book of Changes, Part 2

10 min	greatness
20 min	stagnation
30 min	fellowship with people
10 min	possession in great measure
20 min	humbling
30 min	enthusiasm
10 min	following
10 min	decay
30 min	the forest
10 min	contemplation

 

April 24, 2020, 6:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
The Book of Changes, Part 3

10 min	biting and chewing
20 min	adorning
30 min	splitting apart
10 min	the turning point
20 min	the unexpected
30 min	potential energy
15 min	comfort and security
10 min	critical mass
20 min	the abyss
15 min	radiance
10 min	influence
20 min	persevering
30 min	retreat
10 min	great maturity
20 min	prospering

 

April 25, 2020, 12:00pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
The Book of Changes, Part 4

10 min	intelligence hidden
20 min	family members
30 min	polarizing
10 min	obstruction
20 min	taking apart
30 min	diminishing
10 min	augmenting
10 min	breakthrough
30 min	meeting
10 min	gathering together

 

April 25, 2020, 7:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
The Book of Changes, Part 5

10 min	ascending
30 min	entangled
5 min	the well
30 min	revolution
15 min	the cauldron
30 min	thunder
5 min	keeping still
10 min	advancement
15 min	returning
30 min	abundance
10 min	the wanderer
20 min	wind
15 min	lake

 

April 26, 2020, 2:00pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
The Book of Changes, Part 6

10 min	dissolution
10 min	articulating
30 min	inner truth
10 min	preponderance of the small
10 min	already done
15 min	before completion

 

April 26, 2020, 4:00pm-6:00pm (UTC-8)
Rune Meanings, Part 1

30 min	the self
10 min	a partnership
10 min	property
30 min	separation
10 min	power

 

April 26, 2020, 8:30pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Rune Meanings, Part 2

30 min	something concealed
30 min	compulsion
30 min	new beginning
30 min	protection
30 min	defense
30 min	signals

 

April 27, 2020, 8:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Rune Meanings, Part 3

10 min	joy
20 min	harvest
30 min	opening
10 min	warrior
20 min	growth
30 min	movement
10 min	flowing water
10 min	destructive forces
30 min	gateway
10 min	transformation

 

April 28, 2020, 9:00am-11:00am (UTC-8)
Rune Meanings, Part 4

15 min	that which hinders
20 min	reconciliation
30 min	wholeness
30 min	the unknowable

 

April 28, 2020, 11:00am-4:00pm (UTC-8)
Phrases from “Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck

10 min	walked down to the river
20 min	had to escape from
30 min	difficult to analyze
10 min	can afford to be kind
20 min	nothing but strangers
30 min	a ready remedy
10 min	revived in spirit
10 min	a whole way of life
30 min	no fear and no hatred
10 min	untouched by human hands
30 min	maps are not reality
20 min	far too many things

 

April 28, 2020, 8:00pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Word Pairs, Part 1

10 min	back and forth
20 min	lock and key
30 min	body and soul
10 min	cause and effect
20 min	pure and simple

 

April 29, 2020, 9:00am-4:00pm (UTC-8)
Word Pairs, Part 2

10 min	bed and breakfast
20 min	down and out
30 min	shirt and tie
10 min	life or death
20 min	bacon and eggs
30 min	first and last
10 min	shoes and socks
20 min	lost and found
30 min	black and white
5 min	fish and chips
15 min	bread and butter
30 min	flesh and blood
10 min	signed and sealed
20 min	brick and mortar
10 min	forgive and forget
30 min	slip and slide
20 min	nice and easy

 

April 29, 2020, 8:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Word Pairs, Part 3

10 min	business and pleasure
20 min	front and center
30 min	null and void
10 min	soap and water
20 min	by and large
30 min	fun and games
10 min	sooner or later
10 min	peaches and cream
30 min	cloak and dagger
15 min	give and take

 

April 30, 2020, 8:00am-12:00pm (UTC-8)
Word Pairs, Part 4

10 min	pen and pencil
20 min	coat and tie
10 min	coffee and donuts
30 min	cream and sugar
20 min	crime and punishment
10 min	cup and saucer
20 min	pots and pans
15 min	prim and proper
20 min	hammer and nail
30 min	supply and demand

 

April 30, 2020, 2:00pm-4:00pm (UTC-8)
Word Pairs, Part 5

10 min	knife and fork
10 min	ladies and gentlemen
10 min	law and order
30 min	wait and see
20 min	war and peace

 

April 30, 2020, 6:30pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Word Pairs, Part 6

10 min	hemmed and hawed
5 min	high and dry
20 min	sweet and sour
30 min	tall and thin
10 min	hot and bothered
20 min	wine and cheese
15 min	tossed and turned
30 min	touch and go
20 min	trials and tribulations