Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
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The prompt this week is - Reborn From Ashes
In our world, a forest fire may be terrible for those caught up in it, but it's part of a natural cycle of death and rebirth. After a fire, all the old deadwood has been burnt to ashes rich in nutrients, and the seeds of old, destroyed plants have the chance to sprout in warm, fertile ground.
Similar (often more dramatic) cycles are often found in fiction and myth. Even after the Viking "end of the world" of Ragnarok, the old order provides the seeds for a new one. One theory for our whole universe (although not the current popular one) is that eventually expansion will slow then reverse, and it'll all come together in a "Big Crunch" which turns into the Big Bang creating the next universe in an endless cycle.
Tell me a tale from your setting where destruction is part of a natural cycle leading to rebirth and renewal. It could be anything, from a story at a personal level to an epic cycle spanning time and space. Have fun !
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
