I’ve written many of my short stories this year based on prompts. I’m beginning to like it that way. It’s as if I’m building upon a structure, however fragile.
In high school I had a painting class. The instructor encouraged us to start by filling the canvas with random color—not painting a shape or a figure or anything recognizable. The idea was to not be intimidated by the empty white space and have something to work with instead, even if it’s only random colors.
The same principle may apply to writing with prompts. By starting with a word or phrase and letting a story grow from it, for me at least, it’s better than creating something from nothing, so to speak.
Making the prompts fit into a story is another matter.
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