WRITING EXERCISE
Package season is kicking my tuchus, so we are going to do the 50-word prompts again.
Write two 50-word flashes. Aim for 50 words, give or take five extra words. Don’t read my attempts until after you do your own. Writing them directly in the comment section below will help you focus on the flash aspect – just getting words out.
How does this exercise help you as a writer: (1) just write things out quickly; (2) learn to work from prompts (important for the anthology world); (3) practice writing to a word count.
WORD PROMPT FOR 50-WORD FLASH: Light
VISUAL PROMPT FOR 50-WORD FLASH
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My Attempts
TEXT PROMPT: Light
The packages were stacked tall in the pumpkin, all sorts of sizes and weights. Light thin Amazon packages, large packages from toy stores, squishy clothing packages, weird ones with a hard bit that must be bed-slippers. And dog food. I HATE dog food. Forty pounds moving like a dead body. (first published 3/21/2022; 50 words)
VISUAL PROMPT
Seaweed clung to the tip of the knife. Something expected when gutting fish in the muck passing for water these days. Leonyd went to close the shelter door as the first rays of dawn skittered across landscape, burning everything they touched like molten sparks from a forge. Damn climate change. (first published 3/21/2022; 50 words)