Since I took to writing about 18 months ago I have loved prompts. Other people’s words inspiring and challenging me to create something and share it. My favourite have been M’s which you can see here which I still try and do when I can.
Towards the back end of last year though I found myself thinking that maybe I should consider doing my own prompts for myself and as part of a process see where that took me. So, I picked up a shiny new notebook that I got for my Birthday and picked up one of my fabulous new Bic pens and started to write whatever came into my head until I had 31 prompts for January.
It was not a particularly long process, and I actually did it sat at my desk at work whilst I was on a rather dull teleconference. I think it was maybe 20 minutes of work. Once I have the 31 I then put each as the header on a page and proceeded to jot down an outline or ideas or thoughts inspired by these prompts. It went surprisingly well and within about 90 minutes I had 31 ideas that I can now turn into something this month. I hope.
Anyway, whether I finish them or not doesnot matter what mattes is that I have a ton of ideas to use as I get chance.
Oh and then after that I had an idea to take my most favourite album ever and use each of the tracks as the tirle for a short piece. I haven;t fleshed that out yet but some point in February I hope to put out a dozen pieces all linked to the ‘Blind Man’s Zoo’ album by 10000 Maniacs.
So, in case you are still reading these are what I came up with for the 31 prompts for January.
- Butterfly
- Firestorm
- Flowers of Autumn
- Electric Dreams
- Once upon a never
- Twice shy
- Turbulence
- Tears of night
- Wednesday
- Last orders
- Overtime
- Samantha
- The cave
- Tomorrow’s forever
- Beyond the night sky
- A place in the dark
- The last summer
- The first winter
- Orbit
- Descent
- Into Madness
- Forever forlorn
- Beyond time
- Malcolm
- Driftwood
- Orbital city one
- Fear of the dark
- Nevermore
- All my yesterday’s
- Dawn’s light
- No more tomorrow
It was a fun exercise and whilst I will still be doing other peoples prompts I enjoyed the feeling of finding all those inspirational thoughts and moments for myself.
Why not try it for yourself and share what you come up with?
here ya go, enjoy! https://cthisnthat.wordpress.com/2019/01/12/january-prompt-mashup-afterwards-prompts%F0%9F%98%81/
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not to say I don’t want to dedicate myself to your writing prompts, but I have a hard enough time remembering my own writing LOL.
HOWEVER… I love the idea you have for the 31 days of january… ALSO, I think I might use your writing prompt idea on taking my favorite album and writing short pieces off the titles of the songs on that album
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I think the favourite album writing one would definitely suit you given your love of music. Music is already so evocative it’s probably an easy thing to Hook into
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for sure, that one immediately caught my eye and I even already have an album I know would be perfect for this!!!
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Inspired already i like it
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Reblogged this on Nickey Dubstep and commented:
Though I’ve rarely been known to actually write a prompt… I am avidly interested in checking one of these out!!!!
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Thanks nickey! Can’t wait to see what u do.
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