Okay, so I said that sometimes the prompts would be quite specific - sometimes a little vaguer. Today's prompt is nothing new and nothing original, but the results are usually both, and quite fun too.
Take a printed text (I sometimes play this game with the dictionary, sometimes with a magazine), close your eyes, flick through it and stop wherever you like, pointing somewhere on the page. Choose the nearest word you find (ideally a noun, or if not then an adjective or adverb - you're allowed to try again if you either a) - feel totally uninspired by the word or b) - get things like 'it', 'that', 'because'. Try this three times (or more in aforementioned cases, but until you get three words). Take your three words, reflect a little if you like - or not, if you prefer. Write - using those words as part of your writing. See where they pull you. I'm going to be trying it and aiming for poems. If you want to try out a poem, great - if you prefer a story or something else, fine.
If you feel like playing along, then post up what you've written on your blog and leave a message in the comments here - one (or both) of us will be over to read what you've written.
If you have any ideas for future prompts then let us know, we'd love to hear them and would of course credit you with it should the prompt be used.
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Just wanted you to know I did this prompt but what I came up with is still very much in the raw and rough stages so I haven't finished and haven't posted it yet. I love the idea though and will be using it again.
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