Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #141 - Fog
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. 😀
Image generated by AI in Wombo.art
The prompt this week is - Fog
Fog is one of those things which fits into a multitude of genres, as well as historical events.
In fiction, it is a wonderful way to give a story an ambience, for the author to hide things until they want the reader to see them. It might be cover for the heroes to escape from a pirate ship, or for a pirate to hide from the Navy. A snowy mountainside might be blanketed in fog to hide the vampire count's castle. A heavy fog could be the cause of a vehicle getting lost or running off the road which starts the story off.
Historically, the Battle of Barnet was fought in the fog, allowing the outnumbered Yorkists to beat Warwick the Kingmaker's larger army and change the course of English history. The famous Sun of Austerlitz was preceded by a heavy fog which hid Soult's Corps of Napoleon's army from the Austro-Russians until it was time for them to attack; as they advanced up the slopes of the Pratzen Plateau, the sun burned the fog away to reveal them just as it was too late for the Allies to react.
Now it's your turn ! Write me a story where fog plays a key role in influencing events ! Make it more than the background - I want to see what the fog hides, and why it's presence is so important. 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.
- AI images to illustrate your posts are fine, as long as they are credited to whichever software you used to make them
- Posts using AI to create the text are not acceptable; these prompts (and community) are a way to expand and have fun with human imagination, and I firmly believe AI will never be able to replicate the human spark.
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It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
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