November 12th

Prompts I Finished Today:

• Fasten a seat belt (sushi) -
  We got into Cerise’s little car and buckled our seat belts.
• Window (sushi) -
  “There’s nothing I can say to convince you to come back, is there?” I asked, staring out the window.
• Middle (sushi) -
  Leaning over the armrest in the middle of our seats, Cerise put her hand on mine.
• Hair (essbee) -
  The wind whipped Cerise’s hair out behind her, giving her an almost magical glow to her.

All of the Uncompleted Prompts, Including Today's:

• November 1
• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• November 2
• Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• November 4
• Buffer (Sushi)
• Hidden Motivation or Emotion (Nancy)
• November 5
• "Extraction Team" (Nancy)
• Wombats (Nancy)
• November 6
• Wrong turn in the wrong part of town and meeting the wrong person (Nancy)
• Tragic (Thea)
• Apparition (Ghost)
• Stranger in a strange land (Sushi)
• The Puppet Masters (Sushi)
• Quibble (Thea)
• November 7
• Awkward Family Interactions (Nancy)
• Outrageous action or Romance (Nancy)
• November 8
• Deep dish pizza (cianano)
• Passing Wind Strands Ferry Passengers (Thea)
• Dealers will hear car talk at noon (Thea)
• Enraged cow injures farmer with ax (Thea)
• Man struck by lightning faces battery charge (Thea)
• Red tape holds up new bridges (Thea)
• Kids make nutritious snacks (Thea)
• November 9
• Untamable by almost none (Thea)
• Innocence Targeted (Thea)
• November 10
• Imagination (essbee)
• Fetch (Ghost)
• Vengeance (Ghost)
• November 11
• Cross-Breed (Alicia)
• "I tried to move, but I was pinned down." (Alicia)
• Wings (Sushi)
• Aisle (Sushi)
• Wrapping (Thea)
• Surprise (Thea)
• November 12
• Fire Swamp (Nancy)
• Pit of Despair (Nancy)
• Ultimate Suffering (Nancy)

November 11th

Prompts I Completed Today:

• Peanut Butter (Alicia)
  Shoving myself out of bed, I went out to the kitchen and made myself a slice of peanut butter toast.
• Quoting (Thea)
  Tentatively, I took a few steps forward as Grace began quoting the raven, and peeked into the topless chest.
• Ferocious (Thea)
  Tossing the remnants of the cardboard box off of the couch, I ferociously  ripped the paper to reveal the image inside the frame.
• Watercolor (Alicia)
  An extra-large watercolor of a poached egg framed in an expensive-looking walnut frame now sat on my couch, taking up the majority of it.
• Poached (Thea)
  An extra-large watercolor of a poached egg framed in an expensive-looking walnut frame now sat on my couch, taking up the majority of it.
• Map (writingfreak)
  “It’s a map of the company, leading directly to the underground room that holds the portal.”
• Sharp and Pointy (Thea)
  I went into the kitchen, grabbed the sharpest and pointiest knife that I could find, returned to the living room and stabbed the canvas of the painting.

All of the Uncompleted Prompts, Including Today's:

• November 1
• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• November 2
• Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• November 4
• Buffer (Sushi)
• Hidden Motivation or Emotion (Nancy)
• November 5
• "Extraction Team" (Nancy)
• Wombats (Nancy)
• November 6
• Wrong turn in the wrong part of town and meeting the wrong person (Nancy)
• Tragic (Thea)
• Apparition (Ghost)
• Stranger in a strange land (Sushi)
• The Puppet Masters (Sushi)
• Quibble (Thea)
• November 7
• Awkward Family Interactions (Nancy)
• Outrageous action or Romance (Nancy)
• November 8
• Deep dish pizza (cianano)
• Passing Wind Strands Ferry Passengers (Thea)
• Dealers will hear car talk at noon (Thea)
• Enraged cow injures farmer with ax (Thea)
• Man struck by lightning faces battery charge (Thea)
• Red tape holds up new bridges (Thea)
• Kids make nutritious snacks (Thea)
• November 9
• Untamable by almost none (Thea)
• Innocence Targeted (Thea)
• November 10
• Hair (essbee)
• Imagination (essbee)
• Fetch (Ghost)
• Vengeance (Ghost)
• November 11
• Cross-Breed (Alicia)
• "I tried to move, but I was pinned down." (Alicia)
• Wings (Sushi)
• Window (Sushi)
• Middle (Sushi)
• Aisle (Sushi)
• Fasten a seat belt (Sushi)
• Wrapping (Thea)
• Surprise (Thea)

November 10th

Prompts I Completed Today:

• Dream Sequence (writingfreak)
  “It was all a dream,” I thought, pulling my knees to my chest and wrapping my arms around them.
• Grace Unhinged (Thea)
  My eldest sister, Grace, leaned forward and threw the lid to the chest open, completely unhinging it.
• Cliff (cianano)
  Cerise was inside, shrunken down to miniature size, standing on the edge of an equally miniature cliff, a white dress whipping around behind her.
• Party (essbee)
  Instead, it was a picture of a cocktail party in a large red and white room.

All of the Uncompleted Prompts, Including Today's:

• November 1
• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• November 2
• Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• November 4
• Buffer (Sushi)
• Hidden Motivation or Emotion (Nancy)
• November 5
• Poached (Thea)
• "Extraction Team" (Nancy)
• Wombats (Nancy)
• November 6
• Wrong turn in the wrong part of town and meeting the wrong person (Nancy)
• Tragic (Thea)
• Apparition (Ghost)
• Stranger in a strange land (Sushi)
• The Puppet Masters (Sushi)
• Quibble (Thea)
• Quoting (Thea)
• November 7
• Awkward Family Interactions (Nancy)
• Outrageous action or Romance (Nancy)
• Map (writingfreak)
• November 8
• Deep dish pizza (cianano)
• Passing Wind Strands Ferry Passengers (Thea)
• Dealers will hear car talk at noon (Thea)
• Enraged cow injures farmer with ax (Thea)
• Man struck by lightning faces battery charge (Thea)
• Red tape holds up new bridges (Thea)
• Kids make nutritious snacks (Thea)
• November 9
• Untamable by almost none (Thea)
• Ferocious (Thea)
• Innocence Targeted (Thea)
• Sharp & Pointy (Thea)
• November 10
• Hair (essbee)
• Imagination (essbee)
• Fetch (Ghost)
• Vengeance (Ghost)

November 9th

The One and Only Prompt I Completed Today:

• Tea (cianano) -
  Sitting down on the steps of a small, closed tea shop, I put my head in my hands and tried to calm myself down.
• (And a bonus to that prompt:) “Il mio nome è Sushi.”

All of the Uncompleted Prompts, Including Today's:

• November 1
• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• November 2
• Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• November 4
• Buffer (Sushi)
• Hidden Motivation or Emotion (Nancy)
• November 5
• Poached (Thea)
• "Extraction Team" (Nancy)
• Wombats (Nancy)
• November 6
• Wrong turn in the wrong part of town and meeting the wrong person (Nancy)
• Tragic (Thea)
• Apparition (Ghost)
• Stranger in a strange land (Sushi)
• The Puppet Masters (Sushi)
• Quibble (Thea)
• Quoting (Thea)
• November 7
• Awkward Family Interactions (Nancy)
• Outrageous action or Romance (Nancy)
• Map (writingfreak)
• November 8
• Deep dish pizza (cianano)
• Cliff (cianano)
• Passing Wind Strands Ferry Passengers (Thea)
• Dealers will hear car talk at noon (Thea)
• Enraged cow injures farmer with ax (Thea)
• Man struck by lightning faces battery charge (Thea)
• Red tape holds up new bridges (Thea)
• Kids make nutritious snacks (Thea)
• November 9
• Grace unhinged (Thea)
• Untamable by almost none (Thea)
• Ferocious (Thea)
• Innocence Targeted (Thea)
• Sharp & Pointy (Thea)

Ramblings:

If I do as planned (which never happens), I'll finish my 50th prompt tomorrow.  I will also be grabbing prompt number 75, which gives you an idea as to my completed to uncompleted prompt ratio.

If you're familiar at all with the sprint leader's usual schedules, you can tell when I do most of my writing.  It's not favoritism, I swear, it's when you run sprints.  Although, if you follow me on twitter, you'll think I have a favorite prompt-giver, which is wrong.  I only have a least favorite.

November 8th

Previous Prompts, Now Complete:

• Chicken (writingfreak) -
  A chicken ran in front of me, clucking as it went.  I had a sudden urge to kick it, which I immediately, and almost regretfully, squashed.
• Longbows or Crossbows (writingfreak) -
  
  “Oh, look, longbows,” I said as we passed a small wooden-weapons shop.  
  
  “Crossbows are better,” my travelling companion said as we came to a small shop that had shoddy, but period appropriate dresses on the side of it.
• Oracle (Sushi) -
  “Oracles don’t accept money,” a small, frail-looking, old woman said with a thick, vaguely English accent, pushing some fabric that was hanging in front of the door out of her way.
• Transportation Problems (Nancy) -
  I began to panic as I felt Mason’s hand slip away from me.  Suddenly the electricity stopped and the humming turned into a loud buzz.  Looking around me, I could only see blue, but not the same blue I usually saw while travelling through the portal.  Instead, this was more of a midnight blue, and it frightened me.  I felt like I couldn't catch my breath, and, when the portal spit me out, I began to hyperventilate.

Today's Prompts, Completed:

• Wind (cianano) -
  The wind kicked up, blowing *straw against my ankles.

Today's Uncompleted Prompts:

• Deep Dish Pizza (cianano)
• Tea (cianano)
• Cliff (cianano)
• Passing Wind Strands Ferry Passengers (Thea)
• Dealers will hear car talk at noon (Thea)
• Enraged cow injures farmer with ax (Thea)
• Man struck by lightning faces battery charge (Thea)
• Red tape holds up new bridges (Thea)
• Kids make nutritious snacks (Thea)

Previous Prompts, Still Incomplete:

• November 1
• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• November 2
• Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• November 4
• Buffer (Sushi)
• Hidden Motivation or Emotion (Nancy)
• November 5
• Poached (Thea)
• "Extraction Team" (Nancy)
• Wombats (Nancy)
• November 6
• Wrong turn in the wrong part of town and meeting the wrong person (Nancy)
• Tragic (Thea)
• Apparition (Ghost)
• Stranger in a strange land (Sushi)
• The Puppet Masters (Sushi)
• Quibble (Thea)
• Quoting (Thea)
• November 7
• Awkward Family Interactions (Nancy)
• Outrageous action or Romance (Nancy)
• Map (writingfreak)

Current Least Favorite Prompt-Giver:

Thea.  I have no clue how to fit in all these "double entendre newspaper headline" prompts without actually having a ton of newspapers in my novel.

November 7th

Sorry for the lack of timely updates.  I got lazy and then busy, so .... you know.  Anyway, on to the prompts!

Previously, now Completed:

• Red Moon Rising (Rion) -
  The desktop background, a picture of a red moon rising over a dark purple mountain, loaded quickly and the shortcuts popped up all at once.
• Quickly (Thea) -
  The desktop background, a picture of a red moon rising over a dark purple mountain, loaded quickly and the shortcuts popped up all at once.
• Something happens out of the blue (Nancy) -
  As suddenly as it began, the humming began to die down, the electricity pulsed slower and slower, and the blue began to fade away.  I could begin to make outlines out of the blue, even.
• Wedding Bells (Alicia) -
  Over the hum, I began to hear wedding bells as the blue dissolved into a large white stone church.

Uncompleted, from Today:

• Awkward family interactions (Nancy)
• Outrageous Action or Romance (Nancy)
• Chicken (writingfreak)
• Map (writingfreak)

Previously, still Uncompleted:

• November 1
• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• November 2
• Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Transportation Problems (Nancy)
• Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• November 4
• Buffer (Sushi)
• Oracle (Sushi)
• Hidden Motivation or Emotion (Nancy)
• Crossbows or Longbows (writingfreak)
• November 5
• Poached (Thea)
• "Extraction Team" (Nancy)
• Wombats (Nancy)
• November 6
• Wrong turn in the wrong part of town and meeting the wrong person (Nancy)
• Tragic (Thea)
• Apparition (Ghost)
• Stranger in a strange land (Sushi)
• The Puppet Masters (Sushi)
• Quibble (Thea)
• Quoting (Thea)

November 6th

Previously Uncompleted Prompts, Now Complete:

• Unexpected item from pocket (Lauren) -
  He pulled a ring of USB drives out of his pocket.

Today's Completed Prompts:

• Shadow (Ghost) -
  Shining the small light towards the ceiling, I looked for security cameras, quickly locating a small, half-hidden one that I wouldn’t have noticed except for the off shadow it made on the wall.
• Cold Spot (Ghost) -
  “There’s a huge temperature drop right here,” I answered, stepping aside so that he could plant his feet in the cold spot.
• Quash (Thea) -
  I had to quash those feelings of doubt.

Today's Uncompleted Prompts:

• Wrong turn in the wrong part of town, meeting the wrong person (Nancy)
• Tragic (Thea)
• Apparition (Ghost)
• Stranger in a Strange Land (Sushi)
• The Puppet Masters (Sushi)
• Quibble (Thea)
• Quickly (Thea)
• Quoting (Thea)

Previous Uncompleted Prompts:

• Nov 1 - Apanthropinization (Serena)
• Nov 2 - Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Nov 2 - Transportation Problems (Nancy)
• Nov 2 - Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• Nov 2 - Wedding Bells (Alicia)
• Nov 2 - Red Moon Rising (Rion)
• Nov 4 - Buffer (Sushi)
• Nov 4 - Oracle (Sushi)
• Nov 4 - Hidden Motivation or Emotion (Nancy)
• Nov 4 - Crossbows or Longbows? (writingfreak)

Evil Person of the Day:
writingfreak.  She knows why.

November 5th

Previously Uncompleted Prompts, Now Finished:

• Sugar Snap Pea (writingfreak) -
  I busied myself in the kitchen making hamburgers with sauteed sugar snap peas on the side.
• Toh-mah-toh or to-may-to (writingfreak) -
  Mason chuckled, “No thanks, I don't really like to-may-toes.  I'll have some to-mah-toes if you have any, though.”
• Sesame seeds on Hamburger buns (writingfreak) -
  “But, it’s difficult to find the ones with the sesame seeds on top of them.  And, in my humble opinion, why waste money on buns without seeds?”
• Mountain (Rion) -
  The mountain of clothes I dumped were still where I left them on the floor, so I decided to start there.

Today's Uncompleted Prompts:

• Poached (Thea)
• Something Happens out of the Blue (Nancy)
• "Extraction team!!" (Nancy)
• Wombats (Nancy)

Previously Uncompleted Prompts:

• Nov 1 - Apanthropinization (Serena)
• Nov 1 - Something Unexpected Pulled Out of a Pocket (Lauren)
• Nov 2 - Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Nov 2 - Transportation Problems (Nancy)
• Nov 2 - Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• Nov 2 - Wedding Bells (Alicia)
• Nov 2 - Red Moon Rising (Rion)
• Nov 4 - Buffer (Sushi)
• Nov 4 - Oracle (Sushi)
• Nov 4 - Hidden Motivation/Emotion (Nancy)
• Nov 4 - Crossbows or Longbows? (writingfreak)

Statistics, Facts, and Other Random Things: 

• Out of 44 prompts, I've completed 29.  That's about 66% of taken prompts completed!
• On average, I take 8.5 prompts per day and complete 5.25 of them.
• Prompts are responsible for 100% of the eating that occurs in my novel so far.
• Prompts are also responsible for a minor character becoming a major one.

November 4th

Previously Uncompleted Prompts, Now Completed:

• Constellation (Rion) -
  Crossing the yard, I looked up at the stars in the sky, trying to locate one of the constellations, which the cloudy sky made very difficult.
• A Quiet Hush (Thea) -
  We sat there in a quiet hush for a while.
• New Traveling Companion (Nancy) -
  By the time Monday morning came around I was still suspended, as was Mason. ----(Side Note: This was the moment I decided Mason was going to go on the MC's journey with her, so I counted this as using the prompt.)

Today's Completed Prompts:

• Stripe (Sushi) -
  It certainly didn't look like Cerise had meant to leave her home at all, her two striped suitcases were still sitting in the corner of the room, being used as a makeshift shelf for dirty clothes to sit on.
• Blackberry (Sushi) -
  I grabbed the blackberry jelly out of the door and popped a few pieces of bread into the toaster.
• Apple (Sushi) -
  Unfortunately, there wasn't enough jelly to put on half a piece of toast, so I threw both the jar and the lid in the trash and went back to the fridge to grab the apple butter I saw.
• Sprint (Sushi) -
  Throwing on the very first clothes I saw, I changed as quickly as I could, then sprinted back into the living room where Mason sat on the couch, looking both nervous and worried.
• Eerie, Dark Room (Nancy) -
  “Please, tell,” he said, picking up a picture of a dark, damp looking room that was covered with dust and cobwebs, save a few slender footprints on the ground.

Today's Uncompleted Prompts:

• Buffer (Sushi)
• Oracle (Sushi)
• Hidden Motivation/Emotion (Nancy)
• Are hamburger buns with sesame seeds better than those without? (writingfreak)
• Toh-mah-toh or Toh-may-toh (writingfreak)
• Crossbows or Longbows? (writingfreak)

Previously Uncompleted Prompts:

• Nov 1 - Something Unexpected Pulled Out of a Pocket (Lauren)
• Nov 2 - Sugar Snap Pea (writingfreak)
• Nov 2 - Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Nov 2 - Transportation Problems (Nancy)
• Nov 2 - Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• Nov 2 - Wedding Bells (Alicia)
• Nov 2 - Red Moon Rising (Rion)
• Nov 2 - Mountain (Rion)

November 3rd

I wrote like, less than 100 words today.  So, consequently, I didn't grab any prompts from @NaNoWordSprints.

To make up for it, though, I'm going to have to write a ton tomorrow and the next day, so .. I should grab a ton of prompts then.

November 2nd

Previously Uncompleted Prompts, Now Complete:

• Branding Iron (CiaNaNo) -
  I was setting down a picture of an ancient looking branding iron to the right of the sink when movement outside the window caught my eye.
• Evil Carrying a martini tray (Jupiter) -
  “Ugh, that woman is evil incarnate,” I said, stirring the noodles on the stove.
  
  
  “And she brought a round of martinis to the table.”

Today's Completed Prompts:

• Professor Plum in the library with the rope (Thea) -
  
  “Well, I won’t be wrong this time,” Celine said, grabbing at the little brown envelope in the center of the board.  “I think it’s Professor Plum in the library with the rope!”
  
  “Wrong,” Lydia, Dan, and Ryan said in unison.
• Lettuce (writingfreak) -
  I stabbed another piece of lettuce with my fork and stuffed it into my mouth, still staring out the window.
• Beet (writingfreak) -
  There wasn’t much in my fridge, except some nearly-expired milk and some roasted beets that had surely gone bad by now.
• Shelves (Thea) -
  
  I poured the pasta back in the pot to mix with some olive oil and breadcrumbs I had grabbed off the shelf to the right of the stove.
• Organization (Thea) -
  After three and a half hours of sitting on the floor and at least a cursory glance at everything that I had taken off of Cerise’s office walls, I had managed to organize everything into four separate piles, probably undoing some of the hard work my best friend.
• Missing Person (Alicia) -
  “I really do appreciate it.  I’d hate to think of my daughter as a missing person.”

Today's Uncompleted Prompts:

• Sugar Snap Pea (writingfreak)
• Unexpected Detour (Nancy)
• Transportation Problems (Nancy)
• New Traveling Companion (Nancy)
• A quiet hush (Thea)
• Servant's Quarters (Alicia)
• Wedding Bells (Alicia)
• Constellation (Rion)
• Red Moon Rising (Rion)
• Mountain (Rion)

Previously Uncompleted Prompts:

• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• Something unexpected pulled out of a pocket (Lauren)

Random Thoughts:

• Sometimes it's harder to fit the themed prompts in than it is to fit random ones in.
• Phrases are really fun to fit in because they lead the situation to the strangest of places.
• It's neat to see how I can interpret a prompt to fit what I'm writing.
• I've got to start adding more prompts to my novel, or I'm going to get really behind and things are going to get strange.

Here's a statistic:  I've completed 17 prompts out of the 29 I have taken.

November 1st

Prompts I took & Completed:

• Now & Later (Alicia) - 
  “Now, now, since when has Simmons been capable of such hate?” Cerise asked.
  
  
  “I know, I know,” I said, following the crowd into the hallway, the speeches must have ended while I was lost in my own little world, “I’ve just begun to doubt myself is all.  The position is never going to get posted.”
  
  “It will, sooner or later.”
• Nerds (Alicia) -
  I walked into Clyde’s, our regular bar, behind Cerise only to find that most of the usual bar decorations had been covered up by signs that read “Congrats NERDS.”
• Life Sized (Alicia) -
  “Fine, not a giant nerd, but at least a life-sized one,” Cerise responded with a grin.
• Castle (Cylithria) -
  One picture was of an old looking castle, somewhere in the English countryside I guessed.
• Serena (Serena) -
  The next memo I read came from Serena Mallory, the head of security and Cerise’s direct supervisor.
• Cornerstone by Artic Monkeys (Serena) -
  I moved on to the next picture, which was of a decorated cornerstone of a fancy red brick building.
• Mysterious message from the future (Lauren) -
  
  I began to read the document Cerise was typing in last which was, oddly, a letter to me, dated three days from now.
• "Do you like giraffes?" (Jupiter) -
  The man at Cerise’s door chuckled, “Do you like giraffes?”
• Describe a character's hair style (Writingfreak) -
  The man at Cerise’s door ran a hand through his thick, dark hair

Prompts I took and did not complete:

• Branding Iron (Cianano)
• Apanthropinization (Serena)
• Something unexpected pulled out of a pocket (Lauren)
• Evil carrying a martini tray (Jupiter)

The Rules:

1. I only take prompts from @NaNoWordSprints.
2. I don't take my own prompts.
3. Prompts are taken from sprints I take part in or sprints that are happening while I'm working on my novel.
4. If multiple prompts are given during one sprint, I may choose only one prompt, if I desire.
5. All prompts must be worked into my novel by November 30th.  (Including prompts given on the 30th.)
6. I have the right to make up more rules as I think of them.

FAQ:

1. Can we read the novel?
   .....Probably.
2. When?
   .....Sometime in December.