I have to say that it is going pretty well. I can feel the gears starting to loosen in my head (in a good way though). I am getting down some creative ideas and breaking free of a bit of the negativity that dominates my lifespace by writing about characters and situations that aren’t me or my situation… Until this recap, of course. I think blogging about the personal life is a sure way to stay in that cycle of negativity. It should be coming out through story and character instead of blech there on the page, so I think–njo I believe–I will be doing more freewriting and idea sharing and less of the personal blech. Oh, yes, Blech is a word in my personal reality.
But what about the prompts? Some of them I found useful. I believe all had value thus far, but in terms of putting these down in an academic setting, there are only a few I am interested in reproducing and I certainly looking for more. The structure of the summer class is a 31 day immersive experience that includes 31 prompts as well as several other small thought provoking assignments to rev up the creative engines for producing a short story. Hopefully producing something the writer wants to keep and keeping working to a perfect sheen. To that end the prompts must be as varied as the audience. Though it is a fiction class I recognize that all fiction arrives from someone’s reality (be it through the ether or their own lives once removed) so, I need to find non-fiction prompts that can help stimulate understanding of facets of what makes characters tick–which is us. Which is our own lives and our understanding of the interconnection between lives be they human or otherwise.
In short, I am off to find more prompts.