Creature Feature writing prompts

 

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Ever wanted to write a creature feature? Check out my Weird Wednesday blog for some writing prompts!

Megalodon: Monster Shark

Dearg-Due: Irish Vampire

Spring-Heeled Jack: Dastardly Victorian Cryptid

Sample prompt for megalodon:

The haunted sea. If you can have ghost ships sailing around— The Flying Dutchman or any historical wreck— then why not ghost sharks? Sidebar: there are three generally recognized types of hauntings, two of which might be relevant here: the first is a residual haunting— think DVD of the dead— spirits that have no intellectual presence, but simply appear over and over, like a recording. Often, they reenact their last movements and death. So there might be a massive, millions-of-years-old whale-megalodon battle playing out at the surface of the water. (Perhaps, like the Dutchman, seeing this ghostly struggle could be a bad omen.) The other kind of haunting that might apply here is intelligent: this is where you would get a ghost who likes to push people down the stairs, or a long-dead megalodon who’d still very much like to eat you and your boat. (In case anyone is wondering, the third type of haunting is a poltergeist.)

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