Do you use writing prompts to get your creativity flowing? Have you ever started a story from a writing prompt?A few weeks ago, Rachelle held a first line contest followed by a first page contest. I didn’t have time to participate in the first page contest since I was trying to finish up my editing WIP (which, by the way, is FINISHED!!! Woo-hoo!!!). I found Rachelle’s idea of writing a first page from someone else’s first line intriguing.The concept got me thinking about writing prompts. I used to give them to my students a lot when I was teaching, but I’ve never really used them other than when I was in school.Then today I came across a great opening couple of sentences on another blog. I decided to copy them down to use later as a prompt when I get stuck on my current WIP. At this point I don’t see the description fitting into my
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