Starting Prompts, Something to help get us writing...maybe

[Boomstick]

My pen glides across the page like a ballet dancer. Tracing beautiful lines, and forming words like a magical wand pouring glyphs of blue onto the page. Paragraph after paragraph it dutifully obeys my every command; mimicking my every motion.

My pen is an infinite well of creativity. Containing a wealth of knowledge within it's modest well –poised to pour words out of its ocean of azure.

If only it could speak...What would it say to me?

79 Words

I wrote it with my new inkpen (that I bought to fill my new notebooks with Kana).

/Random Aside/

I'm trying to challenge myself by writing from a single and consistent point of view (though I've done it in the past with a First Person POV, it doesn't work well for actual narrative). Check out this Wiki Page on the subject. Since I often write as 'Third Person, (Objective) Omniscient', it would be a challenge for me to write say 'Third Person, Subjective Limited'...Though maybe not so much since I've written in a very limited 'Singular, First Person Narrative' in the past (which is stupidly easy for me). Maybe I should try 'Epistolary Narrative' mode...Use letter, correspondence, journals, and the like to convey a story. It would be a challenge and I'd also get to use multiple P.O.V.s, though I wouldn't be able to focus in on characters (except in the cases of journals) -which happens to be one of my favorite things about writing.

Hmm...I think I'm going to try an Epistolary Narrative...It's the biggest challenge to me...That is after writing in a really strange 2nd person, which I've done for RPGs in the past with some measure of success to guide a story, and thus ineffectual for an immersing experience IMO. Despite the usage of the pronoun 'you', I find that it in fact detaches the reader from characters, since 'you' is being used by the reader (unless in the case of an RPG) has no ability to speak for him or herself. 2nd Person isn't 'challenging', in that respect, just bizarre.

HAH, I got it. It'll be a story using the Epistolary Narrative Mode and a 3rd Person, Subjective Limited Narrative Mode! Epistolary to fill in the gaps, giving various tidbits of information on the setting, the history of characters/happenings/background...Things I tend to get off-topic on when writing Third Person, Omniscient.

/Random Aside/

[CJHill]

So, that was simply beautiful. Really.

New pens are great.

And all that first person, third person stuff gives me a headache.

cjh

[CJHill]

“It was a dark and...”

No, no, no.

“Rain fell like sheets of...”

No, that’s awful.

Hmmm. How hard can it be? It’s only 300 words. Nothing to it. I can be done in five minutes.

It would be so much easier to write if that stupid cursor didn’t sit there on the blank screen and blink at me.

So, what was that topic again?

Oh, yeah, something spooky.

Ha! I know!

There once was a woman who wanted to be a writer. She would sit at her computer for hours on end staring at the blank screen. Blank except for the cursor. Blink, blink, blink. The woman began to believe the cursor was evil. It had to be. Surely all that blinking was some sort of code. If she stared at it long enough it would start to make sense. Maybe she would break the code and save the earth from an alien invasion! Maybe she would be crowned ruler of the universe! Maybe she...

“Hey, Detective, whaddaya make of this?”

“What do I make of what, officer?”

“All these weird symbols on this laptop. Think it’s a code of some kind?”

“No.”

The detective went away to write his report, leaving behind the missing woman’s laptop, the cursor happily blinking away.

(213 words and no idea where it came from, beyond the prompt/edited on 8/24 because late night writing can make you an idiot...)