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writercises Original Posting Sept. 1, 2018
Squeeze hard?
Somewhere in the never ending flood of Facebook postings recently, someone was griping about having gone somewhere on a trip, and Facebook immediately starting to bombard them with advertisements about yard sales and such in that area. Someone else advised that they consider it as a writing prompt, and write that story!
Which prompted me to think... huh. Take the first five or ten Facebook postings in your feed. Feel free to mix up the order, mangle or distort, and so forth, but... use that set of story seeds as a prompt.
Who are the characters? What is the setting? What’s the problem, and how do they try to tackle it? What happens?
And write!
Watch out, I’ve been thinking about the challenges and so forth that people seem to enjoy on the social networks such as Facebook and thinking about how those might translate over here to Writers! So...
Keep your hands on the keyboard and your eyes on the screen at all times...
Squeeze hard?
Somewhere in the never ending flood of Facebook postings recently, someone was griping about having gone somewhere on a trip, and Facebook immediately starting to bombard them with advertisements about yard sales and such in that area. Someone else advised that they consider it as a writing prompt, and write that story!
Which prompted me to think... huh. Take the first five or ten Facebook postings in your feed. Feel free to mix up the order, mangle or distort, and so forth, but... use that set of story seeds as a prompt.
Who are the characters? What is the setting? What’s the problem, and how do they try to tackle it? What happens?
And write!
Watch out, I’ve been thinking about the challenges and so forth that people seem to enjoy on the social networks such as Facebook and thinking about how those might translate over here to Writers! So...
Keep your hands on the keyboard and your eyes on the screen at all times...