Laura D Durham

No, not the kind that involves sweating. The kind that involves the writing muscles. They need to be stretched and strengthened, you know. Very important for circulation.

I have a book for writing prompts but it, well, sucks. Its target audience is high school or middle school kids. Boring. Very boring, I say in a huffy teen way. So I thought, “Hey! My phone does everything! I bet it can give me writing prompts!” And yes, yes it certainly can. All hail Phone!

I went with Writing Exercises and Prompts made by JG Applications. I chose this particular app out of the many because it offered different styles of prompts. You can have first line, story plots, random subjects, or random characters. Pretty damn nifty. And that really helps stretch and work those creative muscles which is basically the core muscles of your writing body, really. They always say that you can’t let your body get complacent and you have to change up your exercise and this goes doubly for the mind. Humans are incredibly efficient machines and if it can go on auto-pilot and work less hard than it did before, then it will, the lazy sod. So I pick one for the day, always changing the style of prompt and this really helps me think, and ok, sometimes struggle to come up with something. And yeah, there are times I think, “Damn! I should have written this for the prompt today!” But I let them stand. I’m not going to edit a freakin’  prompt, inner editor, so shut it.

So, I lied. It can, indeed, involve sweating. Often there is also groaning and huffing. But no pain, no gain! Feel the burn!