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Let it loose
Let it loose
.Something new today! :-) Every morning that I don’t post a prompt, I’ll post a phrase you can use to write for 5-10 minutes.
You can:
- use it for a focused free write: begin with the topic and let the words flow from you continuously without pause, disregarding spelling, grammar, drift from topic. Even if your brain stalls and you need to write “I can’t think what to write” over and over. Keep doing that until a new thought comes.
- use it to spark a scene with your current characters. Likely it won’t generate anything you can plop into your story, but see where your characters go with it. They’re likely to give you some new insights into who they are.
- come up with a scenario then use the prompt to drive it.
- let the prompt inspire the scenario and run with it.
- use it for whatever you want!
In the interest of full disclosure, these are all song titles. I make no claim to toiling my brain over a new phrase each day ;-) I wanted something with an emotional ring to it but was easy and quick. Hopefully you’ll quickly forget I mentioned they’re song titles. My tastes range from Metallica to Rory Gallagher so it’s unlikely anyone has a similar collection on their iPod ;-)
They’re all speculative fiction friendly. Some, like titles from Judas Priest and Rob Zombie, pretty much can’t be anything else!
