Playground Muse Topics
Topics for October 2006
1. the truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else.
the only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. – whitney young
2. light my candle.
3. my road of good intentions led where such roads always lead.
4. fortune’s fool
5. a silent legacy
6. hush a bye, baby
7. wings
8. god(s), goddess(es)
9. torn
10. satisfaction
Topics for November 2006
11. The Edge of a cliff
12. The First cut is the deepest.
13. Dreams
14. I'm an accident, waiting to happen.
15. Illusion
16. Selfish
17. Desperate Hour
18. Realization
19. What if you had a remote control that controlled your universe?
20. Like every family, they had their secrets.

Due to Circumstances beyond my mental control,
there are NO prompts with the numbers 21-30.

Topics for December 2006
31. Special Holiday Photo Prompt (if you dare).
32. How did I get here and where do I go? There's a crack in the glass, and I'm not going home. --Miri Eiler
33. Will I lose my dignity
34. Turning Point.
35. Coming of Age
36. Mercy
37. I know ____ like the back of my hand.
38. You're given a single use time machine that can take you back to re-experience any moment in your life.
You cannot change anything; just relive the moment up to 24 hours.
What moment do you chose and why?
39. Innocence
40. Justice
Topics for January 2007
41.. There's a face in the mirror, but I know it's not mine, 'cause the face disappears, with a smile left behind. --Miri Eiler
42. affection.
43. disappointments
44. How do you measure a year?
45. Full Circle
46. Morality
47. What do you believe follows death? An afterlife, Heaven, Hell, something else or nothing at all?
48. Prayer
49. Home
50. What was your New Year's Resolution? And are you keeping it? If so, how?
Topics for February 2007
51. I'm scared of whoever this is livin' in my skin.
- The Heads, The Damage I’ve Done
52. Love. What is it? Do you want it or run from it? What would you do to get it, keep it or get away from it? .
53. Traveling twice the speed of sound
It's easy to get burned.
-Crosby, Stills and Nash, Just A Song Before I Go
54. Evil
55. When you're learning to take the path at your pace, every choice is worth your while.
-Indigo Girls, Watershed
56. That's how I knew this story would break my heart.
57. They warn you about killers and thieves in night
I worry about cancer and living right
But my mama never warned me about my own Destructive appetite
- Jenny Lewis
58. It's loves illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
-Joni Mitchell
59. Mun’s Turn- Here’s your chance to sound off about that muse in your head that drives you crazy, makes you ride an emotional rollercoaster, demands things happen their way even if you wanted to do something different with their storyline and all those other things our little darlings do to us, their slavishly devoted typists. Remember to post this as OOC (out of character).
60. Broken
Topics for March 2007
61. Watching with deliberation; nothing comes to those who wait
in line for blind salvation, step aside and test your faith.
-Fly Away by Brother
62. I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
-One Night in Bangkok by Murray Head
63. Write about your favorite birthday.
64. If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
65. Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor.
(When love is not madness, it is not love.)
-Spanish Proverb
66. Would you change anything about who you are? Why or why not?
67. I heard the road, it was calling my name
I walked towards the light and I ran towards the flame
I ran towards the flame
-Quit Your Life by MXPX
68. ..and then the cops came...
69. Serendipity
70. A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
-Up on Cripple Creek by The Band
Topics for April 2007
71. Rebirth
72. A lovely being, scarcely formed or molded, a rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
73. 'Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity'. -Henry Van Dyke
74. I wonder how long it takes to die if you just sit and wait for it.
75. What's your dream?
76. My favorite mistake?
77. Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life." - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
79. You are turned into a child for 24 hours. What do you do? What happens? (If your pup is a child, they are turned into an adult.)
"Seems like it was yesterday when I saw your face You told me how proud you were, but I walked away If only I knew what I know today" ~ Christina Aguliera (not sure on the spelling or if she actually wrote it...forgive me)
80. "Life changes fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
The question of self-pity."
~ Joan Didion
81. April Fools Day Prompt- Write a ficlet, a scene, a poem or whatever portraying your character the opposite of what they truly are. Change their gender, personality, belief system, whatever you choose or all of the above.
Topics for May 2007
"Sometimes loves a loaded gun and it shoots to kill"
- Alice Cooper Love's a Loaded Gun
Ancient History
73. "We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others." -Blaise Pascal
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head
- U2 One
I see the stars in your eyes
You want the truth, but you need the lies
- U2 A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
I can resist anything but temptation. - Oscar Wilde
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. - Aaron Rose
I never promised you a ray of light
I never promised there'd be sunshine everyday
I give you everything I have
The good the bad
- Bethany Joy Galeotti - Halo
Every broken curve...
Mun's Turn: Pick a song that fits your character. Tell WHY it fits the character.
...OR...
Pup's Turn: Pick a song that fits you and tell us why or write a ficlet based on a song that fits you.
Topics for June 2007
92. That was the moment I wished I could remember what we had been taught.
93. Imposter.
94. In an asylum, the only lunatic is the psychologist. -Charles L. Harness, The Paradox Men (1949)
95. Omission.
96. Flashback.
97. And I was thinking to myself, 'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell' -Hotel California, The Eagles
98. Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. -Elizabeth Gilbert
99. bananas
100. She/He/They doesn't live here anymore.
101. I don't know when I last saw the sun.
Topics for July 2007
102. We'll never know for sure.
103. Was the glass half empty or half full?
104. "I wish you had told me this before."
105. "You can't do that."
106. I remember...
107. "Should I? No."
108. "Do what?!"
109. My life is here.
110. Openings.
111. Actions.
Topics for August 2007
112. Flashback.
113. S/he/they/it been told.
114. Connection.
115. Sometimes in the night, S/he would squeeze his/her eyes shut and imagine how it might be to love him/her/them.
116. There are ways to keep off some kinds of bad luck, but this wasn't one of them.
117. Out of sight.
118. She's not a toy.
119. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
120. This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. ~ T. S. Elliot
121. Everything beautiful happens at night.
Topics for September 2007
122. Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself.
123. Some of my best friends are ________.
124. That thing you do.
125. Five will get you ten.
126. Maturity
127. But you can't be close enough Unless I'm feeling your heart beat -All Of Your Love, Hellogoodbye
128. As good as it gets
129. Don't ever change
130. We are the sound We don't belong So raise up your hands And sing along -We Are the Sound, Alexisonfire
131. "It's better than working in a bank." -James May, 'Top Gear' (TV show)