Previously I had vowed to do all 1,000 prompts featured in 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts, Volume 2. I stopped after, well, the first prompt. I found most of the prompts didn’t lend themselves to fiction, being more journal-style exercises. I don’t need ideas for a journal. I have plenty of things I can prattle on about or cat pictures to link to.
But then I found the writing prompt well running dry. A sense of desperation swept over me, like someone with a giant broom doing some serious sweeping on top of me and instead of sweeping up dust or dirt this giant broom was sweeping desperation and instead of sweeping the desperation away it was, in fact, sweeping the desperation directly atop me..
Anyway, I’ve decided I’m going to work through the remaining 999 writing prompts because if a prompt doesn’t suit my needs I will take creative license and make it suit my needs. I’ll show those prompts who’s boss.
I predict a lot of nonsense.
For reference, here is the first writing prompt from the book: Writing prompt 1: Inevitable time travel and my intended goal, which I dropped like a rabid rattlesnake back in April 2015:
Specifically, I am going to use the prompts featured in 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts, Volume 2 (Goodreads link) to write ultra-short stories that are no more than a few paragraphs long. I will work through the prompts in order, one per day. After that, I will perhaps have a party of some sort.
Sometimes instead of a story I will simply answer the questions (most of the prompts are in the form of questions).
I will start on the second writing prompt (which will confusingly appear as writing prompt #9 here) tomorrow. Or else.