Two things bug me about creativewritingprompts.com:
1. The author uses this smiley: :o)
The bulbous nose reminds me of clowns and like any sensible person, I do not like clowns. It’s also aggressively cutesy.
2. Every writing prompt is hidden behind a mouseover pop-up. Is this to prevent people scraping the site and selling the prompts on the black market? Is it to be cutesy? Did a clown goad the author into doing this?
Anyway, what follows is prompt #108 from the site and the eighth prompt I’ve posted here.
Prompt #8: List 10 things you do whenever you procrastinate
- Wait
- Look for writing sites to make fun of while being secretly ashamed at only ever having been published in a Moose Lodge newsletter when I was 12
- Watch a YouTube video, which inevitably turns into an entire evening of watching terrible music videos from the 1980s, culminating in another viewing of the literal version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
- Stare up at clouds and see in them the faces of famous dictators. “There’s Mussolini!”
- Write lists
- Hum to myself until the person next to me says, “Stop that damned humming.”
- Think how procrastination compares to amateurcrastination
- Look busy because appearances are important
- Grow slightly older
- Turn my name into clever anagrams like Jam As Nest and Man Ass Jet
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