Living the Fictional Dream

So, in February, I turned my attention to my writing group’s monthly prompts contest in an attempt to get myself writing again. Writing has been slow (which is putting it generously) since NaNo and the holidays. All in all, it was a good choice and helped me break out of that no-writing rut I was stuck in.

I’m pretty picky about prompts as a rule, but it was fun to stretch myself to address some of the prompts that Stephanie picked out for us (check out her blog to see some of the crazy prompts that she thinks up — I love ‘em).

The bad part about doing one of these contests is when the result of the writing isn’t anything I’m proud of, nothing that I want to pursue or groom into something I can submit. And, that does happen when you stretch yourself to write prompts that maybe weren’t something that truly inspired you.

But, on the whole, this month’s prompts worked out pretty well for me. I wrote five, and two of them I will definitely be working on more. I’m pretty sure that those two will be ready to submit somewhere with only a few light edits. They are a little wacky, but I think they have promise. And one of the other three I think could, with some more intense work, also have promise. The final two, I don’t think will go anywhere, but even they were fun to write — it was good to stretch those muscles.

So, that’s better than half, which is a really good turn out as far as I’m concerned.

I think I’m done with prompts for a bit. Hopefully, this got me warmed back up again, and now the ideas will flow a little more on their own. But I think it was a good goal to pursue for February.