Hi folks, here is another writing prompt from Jami Attenberg (I will be using these prompts from her paid newsletter #1000wordsofsummer to try and get me to use this blog more):

“So a simple weekend prompt for you is to consider what you want your writing to read like, sound like, how you want to make someone feel when they read your work. I always find this kind of exercise rather soothing. To me, it feels like an act of love to express these thoughts clearly. It’s a belief in your own writing and a belief that a message could be received.”

Here is her own example:

“I want my work to feel good and simple and easy to read. Not that the language or the ideas are simple. But I just want it to feel effortless. If it trips up my tongue it might trip up someone’s brain. This is my strategy anyway. I just want people to have a joyful reading experience.”

Here is mine: I want my work to sail plainly through the mind with no hiccups over something being badly or boringly written, or implausible to the point where readers go, no, I’m not buying it. However, I also want it to be kind of fun and a bit shocking and a little sassy and wry, so they know I am on the side of the good guys against the people in the world who would seek to take away all mystery and make everything vanilla and black and white.