Prompt 4
(from Chapter 1: Time and Place):
What is your biggest regret from the past and why? What did you learn from this incident and how has it helped you going forward?
Answer:
My biggest regret from the past (I do not know my future regrets yet, what with them being in the future and all) is dropping out of school before finishing my university degree and being saddled with student loan debt and an incomplete education that required creative thinking to explain away on resumes (“A dragon ate my last two years of post-secondary.”) I learned that being saddled with student loan debt sucks and to never go to school again unless someone gives me a million dollars first.
[spoiler title=”Explanation of this exercise” icon=”plus-circle”]These are prompts featured in 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts, Volume 2 (Goodreads link). My intent is to write ultra-short stories that are no more than a few paragraphs long, working through the prompts in order. When I am done I will perhaps have a party of some sort.Sometimes the short stories will be longer and sometimes instead of a story I will answer the questions (most of the prompts are in the form of questions).[/spoiler]
