So I'm doing this a day earlier or two years too late, whichever you prefer. I need a little kick-start myself, so here goes. Today's writing prompt, inspired by my recent Rainforest Village Writers Retreat experience, is as follows.
Da Prompt: Write Cinderella minus the evil stepmother or Little Red Riding Hood minus the wolf. Pick one of the two. See how well the fairy tale holds up without the main bad guy.
Da Extra Credit: Use the below 3 words in the story to spice it up a little.
Da Words: Pizza, Dildo, Postman
Da Wordcount: up to 3000
Have fun!
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Writers are frequently asked the question “Where do you get your ideas?” The question is a hard one to answer because we all find our inspiration in different places. Some people need to be given prompts, little snippets of ideas to spark their imaginations.
With that in mind, I am posting Writing Prompt Wednesdays. The goal is to inspire writers with exercises meant to train their skills and fire up the creative juices. There are rules. Most prompts will have associated word counts or style instructions. These are not meant to restrict the writer, but give the writer a chance to explore different ways of writing.
If you are an author in search of that one juicy idea, I hope these posts help. If you have ideas for writing prompts, please let me know.
Da Rules:
1) Anything goes so long as you stick to the spirit of the prompt.
2) I ask that if you do publish something based on one of my prompts, that you post the good news (and the link) in the comments of the prompt that inspired your success. You want other people to help you celebrate, right?
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So Cinderella with a big bad wolf and Red Riding Hood with an evil stepmother. Got it. But Pizza, dildo, postman? Sounds like a bad porno. 😉
I wish I had time to write. An old game design concept resurfaced recently and it’s taking a lot of my spare CPU time. So naturally a concept came up to redesign the only game that I sell, but that’s a minor mechanical change plus a big rules rewrite. But at least my database project at work is progressing well: I caught a code error yesterday (case testing for < 0 and > 1 but not 0) and fixed a problem with my audit system. I present it to the school board in a couple of weeks up in ABQ, should be fun!