Back in the saddle, or at least by the pony ride
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelI haven't written since I finished Apocollapse (edits on Kitchen Sink don't count, that's just tweaking and fiddling), and I don't want to lose the oomph that I built up in November. So today I decided I'd sit down for a couple hours and work on a nice little story about a dragon -- for which I've had half a line in my head for a while now, and I figured that plus a few hits on Oblique Strategies would get me going for a decent chunk of words.
Three times as many hits on Oblique Strategies and a lot of flailing later, I still didn't have a story idea; I didn't even have the rest of that line. Then a search for more prompts netted me this: What Happened When I Posted 731 Writing Prompts Online (part 1) and its follow-up here.
And five and a half hours later, I'd written 1800 words of pseudo-magical realism about a garden.
Writing is weird.
Three times as many hits on Oblique Strategies and a lot of flailing later, I still didn't have a story idea; I didn't even have the rest of that line. Then a search for more prompts netted me this: What Happened When I Posted 731 Writing Prompts Online (part 1) and its follow-up here.
And five and a half hours later, I'd written 1800 words of pseudo-magical realism about a garden.
Writing is weird.
