Prompt Cards

Build five themed double features such as redemption arcs, unreliable narrators, heist vs moral cost, or city symphonies. Explain the connective tissue and propose intermission discussion cards.

Design a fun decision game that picks tonight's movie using constraints like runtime cap, mood, decade, language, and availability. Output 5 candidates and a playful coin-flip or die-roll mechanic.

Create a 10-film mini-challenge from world cinema with historical and stylistic range. Provide context blurbs, what to watch for technically, and optional companion reads to deepen appreciation.

Assemble a canon of 12 page-to-screen classics. For each pair, note what the film condenses, what it invents, and where it elevates or loses the book's essence. Include a club discussion format for comparing scenes to chapters.

Take a paragraph from a classic and show how different translation choices shift tone and meaning. Offer a side-by-side glossary, explain tradeoffs like fidelity vs flow, and end with a mini prompt to attempt your own translation.

Choose 3 authors from different regions and compare voice, structure, recurring obsessions, and cultural context. Provide starter packs with 2 entry titles each and a suggested reading order.

Pick one powerful page from a book. Mark diction, imagery, syntax, and motifs, then connect them to theme and character. Offer a companion exercise for film lovers using a single scene's shots, blocking, and sound to do a parallel analysis.

Explain how structuralism, psychoanalytic, feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical lenses change how we read a novel or watch a film. For each lens, provide 3 guiding questions and a quick case study from a popular title.

Design a fair-play mystery toolkit. Define 5 clue types, 3 red herring patterns, a suspect matrix template, and a reveal structure that feels earned. Finish with a one-page outline for an original whodunit pilot or novella.

Build a guided tour of sci-fi subgenres such as hard SF, space opera, cyberpunk, solarpunk, cli-fi, and time travel. Provide 2 film picks and 2 book picks per subgenre, plus a one-paragraph primer and a question to debate.

Create a trope and archetype map for fantasy across books and films. Define the mentor, chosen one, magic system rules, side-quest economy, and villain philosophies, then craft a subversion plan for each trope to inspire new stories.

Propose a 12-month challenge with monthly themes such as debut novels, translated fiction, essay collections, banned books, or novellas. Offer 3 suggestions per month and a reflection prompt that fits the theme.