PROMPT TWENTY-EIGHT -
MEMORIES
Using this prompt should result in
creating stories that are more emotionally driven since they will be based on
the author’s life experiences. Allow words to flow from your subconscious to
the page, making a list of any nouns that are generated this way. Then let your
mind associate those with mental pictures out of your past. These become the
foundation for your stories.
For instance:
Airplane – climbing a plane
monument in a park and nearly falling off.
Truck – my family taking a vacation
in my dad’s beat up Chevy.
Lumber – working with an accident
prone laborer twice my age.
Slow Moe – Randy started his construction career as a
laborer under the tutelage of Joe “Moe” Morrison. Moe suffered injury after
injury, remaining a laborer even after Randy started his own construction
company and hired him. Then Randy suffers a debilitating work injury and Moe
offers help Randy at home until he recovers. In the wake of their strengthening
friendship, Randy discovers that Moe’s mishaps weren’t funny at all.
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