I hope you’re not getting sick of me writing about writing prompts! I keep having new experiences with them that seem worth writing about. This past week, it was my turn again to create the prompt. What qualifies as a good prompt? I seem to do a resonance test: Does any lightning flicker, indicating the prompt might stir stories from my past, therefore carrying an emotional payload? If it stirs my curiosity, it still needs layers that touch a deeper place I can write from.
The prompt I came up with was this: “I could forgive you if you would only…”
What comes to mind with those words? I bet there’s hardly anyone over the age of two who doesn’t have something to attach to those words.
I found myself writing a stream of consciousness out of memories at first. Halfway through the time, I turned to writing fiction. What really stood out was that my friend and I, without any conversation. both wrote about someone who briefly contemplates killing the person rather than forgiving them. We both also had cake in our tiny stories.
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