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in #fiction6 years ago

Thank you!

They're actually five minute (semi-)freewrites, not including a few minutes of editing and coming up with the photo. Sometimes I spend a little more time if I'm on a roll. @mariannewest and @freewritehouse come out with a one word prompt (sometimes a phrase) and I'll come up with a first sentence. From there I just start writing and see where things go. If a story materializes I'll post it to my blog; if not, I just post it as a comment on the @freewritehouse post. Today's prompt was "wet." All I had thought of when I started writing this was the newspaper thing and how that's a trope when it rains in old Hollywood movies and how I don't see how a newspaper makes for an effective umbrella hahaha. I only worked out that the job interview was for an MLM scam around the time that I wrote the sentence about the people coming out of the elevator. I just imagine the story as I'm going and describe what I see in my mind's eye. It's really fun!

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Very cool .. thank you for your explanation and the insight on how you create your stories.

Thanks for taking an interest in it!

For what it's worth, I had never written fiction in my life (save for when I was a small child) until I got to Steemit and tried it out for the first time a couple months ago. I was convinced I would absolutely suck at it. The only reason I tried it out was that I randomly entered in on a @freewritehouse comment contest and won it and I felt terrible that I had won when I hadn't even once done a freewrite, so I thought I better contribute something to assuage my guilt. Now I love it. It's like zen time for me, and I'm getting better over time. You should try out joining in on @mariannewest's freewrites!

I may give it a shot at some point. Steemit has a way of bringing us here for one thing but then we stay for another. I think its awesome that you won a contest on your first attempt.

It does, doesn't it? Reading back on my #introduceyourself post, I thought that my contributions here would be totally different than they ended up being. I'm glad it took a turn and I ended up learning that my capabilities as a writer are less limited than I thought they were.

You're coming along like a noicely roising cake. I'm glad you decided to do some freewriting. It's a nice brain explosion, isn't it.

I'm glad @rentmoney asked you this because I was going to as well. I love how your mind works and the direction this took (although the poor narrator not so much).