Random Nouns Writers’ Prompt

My writers group over on DDW’s Discourse  served up a Random Nouns Writers’ Prompt entitled The Jar of Nouns.

The initial low-tech version requires you “cut up a sheet of paper in several two by three inches pieces. On one side write a noun (some can be proper), just make them random, and place them in the jar. For an on-the-fly writing prompt, pull five nouns from the jar, and write for fifteen minutes using all five nouns.”

I didn’t have time to mess with jars, so I pulled nouns using some word randomisers online. One of them gave me a default random word on opening which happened to be MY OWN NAME (cue spooky music).

So I told it to deal me five and it gave me:

• Rest,
• Injury,
• Journey,
• Pets,
• Politics

I used those in sequence for the story Beyond the Borders which will find its way into a future WIP novel.

The next generator gave me:

• Citizen
• Ideal
• Monastery
• Paw
• Security

Which I aim to use one of those quiet days when I need to blitz some short fiction unrelated to any ongoing projects.

The last generator give me:

• preparation
• adze
• power
• song
• republic

This is now The Song of the King’s Bridge, an offshoot of my series Book Three, City of Vipers.

You can give these a go yourself:

• Random Noun Generator
• Random Word Generator
• Desi Quintans Random Noun Generator