Alongside the standard tasks for Preptober [LINK], we have come up with some writing prompts that can help support developing your characters and settings for your novel.

There are 10 prompts that can be chosen from, and the expectation for this errand is that at least one prompt of your choice is completed each week of October. The minimum word count for each weekly prompt is 400 words, and the rewards are below:

• Week 1 (2nd - 8th October) : Reward is 20 sickles
• Week 2 (9th - 15th October) : Reward is 4 chocolate frogs
• Week 3 (16th - 22nd October) : Reward is 20 sickles
• Week 4 (23rd - 29th October) : Reward is 4 chocolate frogs

An extra 10 sickles will be given for any additional prompts completed; these additional prompts have a lowered word count of 250 words.

Please create one thread tagged [Preptober Prompts 2023] in the Shelves forum [LINK], with each prompt completed as a new post in that thread (please write which prompt you are doing at the start of each new post). To qualify for the rewards, prompts must be posted before the deadline, and the rewards will be given out at the end of the month/early November.

The Prompts:

1. The Magician
Character Prompt: Write about your character performing a trick of some sort, or a daring feat. Will it work? Will they get into trouble for doing it?
Setting Prompt: Write about a fair or carnival visiting your setting. Does it effect the setting? If so, how?

2. The Tower
Character Prompt: Write about your character making a mistake or causing something bad to happen by accident. What happens? Can they fix it?
Setting Prompt: Write about the aftermath of a disaster occurring in your setting. How are people coping? Is it going to be repairable?

3. The Sun
Character Prompt: Write about your character doing something that they love or winning a competition. Why do they enjoy it so much?
Setting Prompt: Write about a good day in your setting. What is there to do? Why would people enjoy visiting?

4 . The Wheel Of Fortune
Character Prompt: Write about your character taking a big risk, and how it turns out. Does it fail, or succeed?
Setting Prompt: Write about a big change that has recently happened in your setting. What is the change? How big are the consequences?

5. The High Priestess
Character Prompt: Write about your character giving advice, or taking advice from someone. Is it good advice?
Setting Prompt: A soothsayer/oracle passes through your setting. Do they have any prophecies to tell? Any good signs, or concerning omens?

6. Death
Character Prompt: Write about the end of something important to your character. How do they react?
Setting Prompt: Write about about the end of something important to your setting. Is this a good or bad thing? Will it have an effect on any people living there?

7. The Fool
Character Prompt: Write about your character trying something new for the first time. Do they enjoy it? Are they good at it, or do they need to practice more?
Setting Prompt: Write about a new traveller arriving at your setting. What do they think of the place?

8. The Hierophant
Character Prompt: Write about a tradition your character carries out. Why do they do so? How important is that tradition to them?
Setting Prompt: Write about a celebration/festival/tradition that occurs in your setting. Why does it occur? Does everyone enjoy it?

9. Justice
Character Prompt: Write about your character doing the right thing (or what they believe to be the right thing). Why do they believe it is right?
Setting Prompt: Write about a new law being passed in your setting. Why is this law necessary? Is it the best outcome for everyone in your setting?

10. The World
Character Prompt: Write about your character's dreams and goals for their life. Why do they want to accomplish this? Do they know how they can do so?
Setting Prompt: Write about your setting's ideal world or situation for the area. Is it possible for them to achieve it?

Rules:

• You DO NOT need to complete the Preptober tasks to join this errand, nor do you have to complete these prompts to earn the rewards for the Preptober tasks.
• If you are taking part in Preptober, you can use the characters/settings you've created when writing your prompts. if you are not taking part in Preptober, you can create any character or setting to complete the prompts - providing you adhere to the site's rules and ratings. You will not be allowed to use real people, plagiarise characters, or have disrespectful depictions of any race/gender/ethnicity/disabilities or illnesses, as per site rules. Please use the same character/setting for all of your prompts for consistency. You will not be allowed to use your Player Character, an iNPC, a dNPC or anyone else from Hogwarts.io.
• The restrictions from Preptober still apply here. Since your work will be published IC and onsite, you cannot write a Harry Potter fanfiction. That will require too much time and effort for those moderating to ensure everything written is in line with canon. Furthermore, this must be your original work, you cannot write an AU story of this community using characters from the site as they belong to their writers.
• Because the Preptober prompts will be written on the site, they all must adhere to the site rating. Information on the site rating can be found here [LINK].

Once you have completed your first prompt, please post in this thread with the following format:

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[b]Profile Name:[/b]
[b]Link to thread(s):[/b]

Each time you complete a new prompt, please edit your post to show and add a link by October 31st.

Preptober Prompts Rewards:
@Delainie Silverwing - All prompts completed - 100 sickles + 8 chocolate frogs
@Renelle Dalton - Week 1 completed - 20 sickles
@Rebecca Lark - Week 1 and 2 completed - 20 sickles + 4 chocolate frogs
@Ophelia Northwell - Week 1, 2, 3 and 4 (+ 1 additional) completed - 50 sickles + 8 chocolate frogs
@Della Barfield - Week 2 completed - 4 chocolate frogs

Ineligible:
Nina Nahan - no longer on site

Apologies that this was done so late. If there are any issues, please let me know, and I will aim to rectify them as soon as possible.