There were no questions for O'Abby today, so I thought I'd try something new. Please let me know in the comments if this is something you're interested in because I might make it a monthly feature if there is an appetite for it.
I know that when I'm stuck for ideas, using writing prompts is incredibly useful for me. I even started writing a novel a few years back, using daily prompts to guide each chapter. It was a really great way to challenge myself and pushed the story in directions I probably would not have taken on my own. It also meant that each day I wrote around 1,000 words because the prompts I used were part of a daily contest to write flash fiction stories up to 1,000 words in length within 24 hours of the prompt being issued.
The prompts varied from giving five or six words that needed to be used in the chapter to offering specific topics to write about to suggesting genres. Some days it was easy to fit the next chapter of my story to the prompt, while other days it was a lot more challenging.
I'm not suggesting that you try to write a novel using prompts - it was simply a way to challenge myself and kickstart a story I was struggling to write - but when you need a starting point for anything, prompts can often be helpful.
So I'm going to offer you a prompt today. I'd love to see what you do with it, so feel free to share what you write in the comments, or email your story or poem to O'Abby at operationawesome6@gmail.com.
Today's prompt draws inspiration from Dena's post earlier this week about Cormac McCarthy's The Road, one of my favourite books.
Prompt:
Write a story or poem about a time in the future using a common object from the present day to illustrate how the world has changed.
Happy writing!
X
O'Abby
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