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Thought writing prompts were a waste until my niece asked me for one at Thanksgiving
For 3 years I rolled my eyes at prompt lists. Felt like cheating, like training wheels for real writers. Then my niece Maya, she's 14, asked me for a story idea at our Thanksgiving table in Fresno and I went blank. Sat there for 10 minutes while the turkey got cold. Now I keep a notebook of prompts on my phone and use one almost every morning. What's the one prompt that actually got you unstuck?
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emmam3216d ago
Ha, I love that the turkey had to suffer for your pride. My own version of this is that I used to make fun of people who journal, and now I have a notes app full of half ideas I read back like they were written by a drunk stranger. The prompt that finally got me going was just the simple "write about a meal that changed something," which sounds so plain but it unlocked a whole story about my grandma's kitchen. Turns out the training wheels were just the bike the whole time. Your niece basically did you a favor and didn't even know it.
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