Daily writing prompt

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

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Good morning!

It’s day five of my pathetic prompt marathon! Today’s prompt entails something I’m frankly useless at – social gatherings and the organisation of which. Let’s pretend for a moment that’s not the case.

I’m assuming this prompt is being extremely lenient about who we could invite – the wealthiest of celebrities, the long dead, non-existant entities etc. Well, since I’m a writing channel, I might as well go for the latter and finally produce something relevant.

Plan 1: Invite a lot of fictional detectives for one big Christie Crossover. Yes, everyone – Sherlock Holmes, Herlock Shomes (Lupin), Poirot, Lisbeth Salander, Whatser-face Sarah Linden that my Mum likes to watch, Jack Reacher, Columbo, Sam Spade, Miss Marple and probably a few more filler detectives on the side to make up a party of twenty. I will bribe Mrs Marple to kill someone and watch as the incompatible investigation goes straight to hell before my very eyes (I might even get away with it)!

Plan 2: Invite J rr Tolkien, CS Lewis, Terry Pratchett, Lewis Caroll and (We need at least one Canadian) Steven Erikson over for tea and a reading. The book in question will be Terry Goodkind’s Soul of fire. I genuinely want to know what these writers would’ve thought of this tripe. Caroll would probably not last the evening. After that, I will make them read one of them shoddy “Isekai” as homework and see how they take that.

Plan (are we done yet?)3: Alternatively, I could have the above arrangement plus Jo walton, Mary Shelley (why not), Anne Mcaffrey, Stephen King, RR Martin and Ursula K. le Guin over for a more complete dinner party followed by a game of Dnd. They will be asked to make their characters before hand. Yes, I know the party is problematically oversized and it’s bound to become a horror story, but I just want to see how it goes, M’kay? At least I didn’t invite Hubert or Lovecraft or it would’ve been even worse!

Plan (Oh just stop already!) 4: James Gillray. Just James Gillray, over for tea. I want to see him draw some unsavoury politicians…and other characters. Maybe bring Charles James Fox along too because A) james Gillray’s depiction of him is hilarious and B) Charles James Fox was actually a pretty nice man.

Well, what do you think of my plans? Who would you invite over for dinner if they had no power to refuse? Mull that over for today.
Oh, and in the meantime, I might as well announce that the first draft chapter of my Novel project(plus the introduction) will be free to review on the 27th of July! In the meantime, I’ll go about writing my advice, drawing my shoddy characters – I’ll share more of ’em soon – and generally surviving.

Have a good day! (PS I actually tagged this post for a change. Wonderful.)