In the Beginning, There Were Prompts
Dec. 23rd, 2007 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realiotrulioI have always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I can remember. My mother has, in her basement, what I thought of as "books" that I wrote when I was five and six years old. When I was eleven or twelve, I decided to write a book (which turned out to be embarrassingly reminiscent of The Outsiders, my main literary influence at the time).
But, now that I have time on my hands and I could write as much (or as little) as I wanted, I find myself shamefully devoid of ideas. My creative-self, which used to be inspired by the small part of the world in which I found myself, seems to be starving.
I need to kick-start my writerbrain.
So, I started to think about my most prolific and creative periods. When did I write the most? When did I write my best? When I was in school. When I had assignments. When I had creative writing classes.
This is where you come in.
I need assignments. Writing prompts. Something to inspire, to stimulate, to rouse my seemingly-dormant writerbrain and make it work. I need your help. Desperately. I'm begging.
So, THE RULES:
1. Writing will officially begin on January 1, 2008.
2. Prompts can be offered at any time starting right now.
3. Prompts must be left as a comment on this journal.
4. Prompts can be a single word, a phrase, but must be no longer than one sentence (you've got to leave me room to be creative with my response).
5. Beginning, January 1, 2008, I must post a response to a prompt of my choosing on a daily basis.
6. If I run out of prompts, I still have to post something daily (in other words, I need to find my own prompts....and, just like anyone else, I will leave the prompts as a comment in this journal).
So, LET THE PROMPTING BEGIN!!!!
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Prompts
Date: 2007-12-23 04:39 pm (UTC)The aquarium
Stepping through the wall
Prompt
Date: 2007-12-23 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-24 05:23 am (UTC)Prompts
Date: 2007-12-26 01:22 am (UTC)2. Smiling to keep from crying
3. Ways of making love
4. One thing wrapped around another
5. A sea monster
6. Not knowing with whom to sympathize
7. Flying
no subject
Date: 2007-12-26 12:52 pm (UTC)Season change
Favorite pet
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Date: 2007-12-26 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-27 06:56 pm (UTC)Prompts (taken from shadesong's LJ)
Date: 2007-12-30 12:28 am (UTC)2. Comfort food
3. Imaginary friends
4. Waiting sucks
5. I can tell by the set of your jaw you’re trying hard to care.
6. She had her mother’s hands
7. Skinned knee
8. Staring at the cold, iron bars that separated him and me…
9. You really need to stop picking at that
10. Parent’s nighttime vigil over her child
11. Cello
12. Sunburn
13. The last time I was here, I was someone else.
14. Pie
15. I know better than to wish for love
16. Because to him, you are food.
Prompt from your Other Mother
Date: 2007-12-31 12:25 am (UTC)Explain it.
Date: 2007-12-31 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-01 11:17 pm (UTC)Your Mom
Date: 2008-01-02 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-02 04:44 am (UTC)Can't wait to see what you come up with. "It's the least I could do."
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Date: 2008-01-02 04:45 am (UTC)I didn't want you thinking I was an idiot and bypassing my prompt because of it.
I'm paranoid. What can I say.
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Date: 2008-01-02 04:16 pm (UTC)A glass of red wine.
Waking up before sunrise.
Blue silk and silver bells.
A hawk.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2008-01-03 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-03 03:13 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2008-01-03 03:15 am (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2008-01-03 03:17 am (UTC)Ever since I read House of Leaves I've had a fascination with appearing rooms. I also used to have lots of dreams about discovering a room I'd never noticed before.
PROMPT
Date: 2008-01-03 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-03 11:55 am (UTC)An abandoned victorian mansion.
a torrid affair with a much younger man.
a medieval forest.
fairies at Stonehenge.
Frum Miloh
Date: 2008-01-03 05:27 pm (UTC)Oh, just another
Date: 2008-01-03 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-03 09:31 pm (UTC)Of course, I *could* just ask my flist for prompts...
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Date: 2008-01-03 11:43 pm (UTC)A card reading for Mme LaVeau
The shop that wasn't there