The IronMan Seven

Here we go -- the very last week!
WRITER'S CHOICE~ [October 1-October 8]

And to allow for some extra wiggle room -- a little more choice for the dedicated writers who are still going -- there are three five! extra prompts this time. You still only have to do five, but now you have ten twelve to choose from. Pick your favorites. ^_^

1. too cold to start a fire, I'm burning diesel, burning dinosaur bones

2. just cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there

3. god prefers an atheist

4. I'm impressed -- don't like you, but I'm impressed

5. walk around me, not before me, I'll pretend not to ignore ye / but I'll compromise when I realize you can do something for me

6. I see your outstretched hand through the closing door, but it's a far better thing I do than I have done before

7. I don't care too much for money -- money can't buy me love

8. only cowards stay, while traitors run

9. I'm taking the fire escape up to the roof / Don't care if it's not the way you find the truth

10. I get knocked down, but I get up again / you're never gonna keep me down

11. hurt myself again today, and the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

12. you said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write whatever the hell you want, so long as it's at least 50 words each time, with five of these prompts. Do angst! Do fluff! Do smut! Do AU! Just have fun with the last week. ^_^

You may begin posting for these prompts on Monday, October 1, and your posts should come on five different days.

Genre: kink/cliche [September 24-30]

1. I will be the one to hold you down, and kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away

2. forget all about equality / let's play master and servant

3. these boots are made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do / one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

4. I didn't want to fuck you, but you're pretty when you're mine

5. Luck, if you ever were a lady to begin with, Luck, be a lady tonight

6. don't hesitate, I won't kiss and tell / no need to worry cause I'm a professional

7. you're all I need to get high


Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create five pieces of fiction (of at least 50 words each) using five out of the seven prompts posted above. Interpret them as you wish. Use the same pairing for all five to show us how outrageous they can be. Change it up and use different characters to tell five different tales that will make us squirm. It's up to you! Have fun and be creative!


You can begin posting for these themes on September 24th, and your posts should come on five different days.

Genre: Comedy (dark humor, romantic comedy, farce ...) (week 5) [September 17-23]

1. A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

2. I can't picture you with him, his future looks awful dim.

3. If I seem a little strange, that's because I am.

4. There's three sides to every story, yours, mine, and the cold hard truth.

5. I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.

6. Anything is possible with a little love and a pretty face and some time to waste.

7. Anything passes, when you need glasses.


Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create five pieces of fiction (of at least 50 words each) using five out of the seven prompts posted above. Interpret them as you wish. Use the same pairing for all five to show us A pair of lovers and their hilarious struggle to come together. Change it up and use different characters to tell five different tales that will provoke us to laughter. It's up to you! Have fun and be creative!


You can begin posting for these themes on September 17th, and your posts should come on five different days.

Sub-genre: Alternate Universe (week 4) [September 10-16]

1. everybody wants to rule the world

2. I am a king in everything when with a wanton gypsy, o

3. you want to know one thing I advise? shoot when you see the whites of their eyes

4. though the rain weighs down your wings, still the caged bird's got to sing

5. I drive a Rolls Royce 'cause it's good for my voice

6. there's a crack in the mirror and a bloodstain on the bed -- you were a vampire, and baby, I'm the walking dead

7. on the screen there's a diagram of you, and the disk where I saved it holds your name / there are those who believe our love's untrue, but I still adore you all the same



Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create five pieces of fiction (of at least 50 words each) using five out of the seven prompts posted above. Interpret them as you wish. Use the same pairing for all five to show us their adventures across space and time. Change it up and use different characters to tell five separate what-if tales. It's up to you! Have fun and be creative!


You can begin posting for these themes on September 10th, and your posts should come on five different days.

Sub-genre: Romance (Fluff, Curtain-fic, Harlequin....) [September 3 - September 9]


1. they said our love would fade, but it gets stronger every day / they say that beauty fades, well, you're more beautiful than ever

2. whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again

3. we talk about it all night long / we define our moral ground / but when i crawl into your arms / everything comes tumbling down

4. On the continent of your skin, wandering, wandering, I could spend my life traveling the length of your body each night.

5. My heart can't stop beating faster, every time I hear your name or your laughter.

6. I'll paint you mornings of gold, spin you valentine evenings.

7. In the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.


Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create five pieces of fiction (of at least 50 words each) using five out of the seven prompts posted above. Interpret them as you wish. Use the same pairing for all five to show us the progression from attraction to comfortable love. Change it up and use different characters to tell five separate fluffy tales. It's up to you! Have fun and be creative!


You can begin posting for these themes on September 3rd, and your posts should come on five different days.

Sub-genre: Smut (Erotica, porn....) [August 27 - September 2]

1. Full full moon and that same sad nature/wanna cover every inch of you like ink on paper

2. The world was on fire, no one could save me but you/ Strange what desire will make foolish people do

3. I like the song you'll sing for me, when I touch you

4. keep on whispering in my ear, tell me all the things that I wanna hear

5. I might like you better if we slept together

6. Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

7. every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it



Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create five pieces of fiction (of at least 50 words each) using five out of the seven prompts posted above. Interpret them as you wish. Use the same pairing for all five to paint an entire sexual history. Change it up and use different characters to tell five separate smutty tales. It's up to you! Have fun and be creative!

For this week and this week only, there is one additional rule: all your fic for smut week should be explicit. R-to-NC-17, M, not worksafe, Adult, whatever rating system you use: just don't fade to black on these ones. Bring the porn. ^^

You can begin posting for these themes on August 27th, and your posts should come on five different days.

Sub-genre: Painfic (H/C, Angst... ) [August 20th - August 26th]


1. The path that I have chosen now has led me to a wall, and with each passing day I feel a little more like something dear was lost.

2. The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath.

3. Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.

4. Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

5. All of this temptation, you know it's turned my faith to lies. Till I couldn't see the danger, or hear the rising tide.

6. Forgive me if I seem unkind, you've got your troubles, I've got mine.

7. I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. But why, why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine?


Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create five pieces of fiction (of at least 50 words each) using five out of the seven prompts posted above. Interpret them as you wish. Use the same pairing for all five to weave a tale of love found and lost. Change it up and use different characters to tell five separate angsty tales. It's up to you! Have fun and be creative!


You can begin posting on August 20th.