In which I outline my plans for a more sustainable and productive second week of the #NiNoBilMa experiment in progress.
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1470496402467966986
The Twitter prompt games I tried last week were fun and interesting, but took more of my time and energy than I'd expected... and while I think the creativity that resulted within myself from them "counts", it kept me from doing more writing-writing.
So I've come up with a simple and concrete daily writing exercise I'm going to be doing (which I outline in the linked post), involving a semi-randomly generated prompt I will be sharing on Twitter.
The process I use to create the prompt is also described in the linked post, in case anyone doesn't want to tie their #NiNoBilMa activity to my Twitter schedule.
As described in the linked post, each time I give one of these prompts, I'm going to tweet out a one-tweet version of an answer for it, then walk away from my computer for a bit to think about it, then sit and write on a timer, trying to expand that answer into a story-ish thing.
If you want to play along at home, you can do any or all parts of this, whatever makes sense to you. I think that just coming up with answers to random/arbitrary questions is good practice for writing and creativity, honestly.
My answer:
Everybody knows that things come in threes, and most people know that chickens are rude. Whenever there are three chickens, people instinctively rank them in their heads: rude, ruder, and rudest.
A fourth, unexpected chicken breaks the scale.
Everybody knows that things come in threes, and most people know that chickens are rude. Whenever there are three chickens, people instinctively rank them in their heads: rude, ruder, and rudest.
A fourth, unexpected chicken breaks the scale.
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1470497626068078594
And with that, I'm going to go do some cleaning stuff.
About to post today's bonus #NiNoBilMa prompt, as described in this post.
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1470496402467966986
Today's #NiNoBilMa seed:
"The curtain rose. A spotlight illuminated the stage. The audience held their breath as five beautifully groomed live wildcats stepped forward blinking out of the darkness, one after another. Then the show began. What was their act like?"
"The curtain rose. A spotlight illuminated the stage. The audience held their breath as five beautifully groomed live wildcats stepped forward blinking out of the darkness, one after another. Then the show began. What was their act like?"
Deleted and reposted because as I looked at it, the original last line "Then what happened?" was more open-ended than I'm aiming for.
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