"The soul that has no established aim loses itself." -- Montaigne
In some cases, you can feel like you've hit a wall in your creativity and find it difficult to keep on writing. The thread "Fizzles" can help to write brief passages to get back into the swing of writing (it may be they inspire much more than that).
However, this thread I set up for the use of prompts that may inspire short stories or novels based on the use of a premise (a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion).
[more on story premise here ]
If you find them useful or you have any suggestions, please post in the thread!
The first premises will be from actual books that have been published. If you come up with any others, feel free to post and I'll add to the list:
“The only paradise is a paradise lost.”
“If God is dead, then all things are permitted.”
"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."
"there is not and cannot be any science of war, and
that therefore there can be no such thing as a military genius"
"it don't make no difference whether you do right
or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense"
"Through error you come to the truth!"
"where there is no more hope, song remains"
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as
necessary.”
"I am nobody but myself."
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes."
"It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you."
"Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined."
"There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my
kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"women feel just as men feel."
"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."
"Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates."
"Where there is great love there are always miracles."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
"there are but two sorts of women in it [the world] - those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back."
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
"Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself."
"Awful things can happen anytime."
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
"The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
"The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be."
"man also needs unhappiness!"
"Beauty can pierce one like pain."
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
"It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right"
"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!"
“What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”
"For things to stay the same, things have to change."
"everything is subject to change"
"All men are mortal."
“If God is dead, then all things are permitted.”
"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."
"there is not and cannot be any science of war, and
that therefore there can be no such thing as a military genius"
"it don't make no difference whether you do right
or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense"
"Through error you come to the truth!"
"where there is no more hope, song remains"
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as
necessary.”
"I am nobody but myself."
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes."
"It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you."
"Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined."
"There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my
kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"women feel just as men feel."
"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."
"Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates."
"Where there is great love there are always miracles."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
"there are but two sorts of women in it [the world] - those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back."
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
"Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself."
"Awful things can happen anytime."
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
"The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
"The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be."
"man also needs unhappiness!"
"Beauty can pierce one like pain."
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
"It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right"
"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!"
“What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”
"For things to stay the same, things have to change."
"everything is subject to change"
"All men are mortal."
