Before you read this I would recommend reading this section first because it has the first part from day 2. Oh, and something worth mentioning. promptlessness should really become a word because it fits this challenge so well.
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He circles daily, around and around the laptop screen, seeking out the places where he can reek the most havoc of no ideas. He has tried to come back to me, but this time I have built up my defenses, I have striven for creativity and ideas, and it worked out in my favor. Now that the challenge is winding down, I seem to have an open hole in my head through which ideas freely flow, and I know what I will always write the next day, no problem. I could write about so many things right now. 10 lists, slices of my life (literal things I did), animations that have shaped me, poetry, my creativity seems boundless now. He still stalks however, across the top of the laptop, knowing that one of these days he will reach a weak spot, and he will use it yet again.
He found it. My one weakness. I have a good prompt, but once I get farther in than about the first 3-4 lines I have no idea what to write about it. He found a way to squeeze himself back into my slices by finding my Achilles heel. I have no idea how he, or I for that matter, found this issue, but I know it is tearing me apart. I am excited to write something, and then I falter and feel unconfident in my work. He has wormed himself back into my brain, letting me taste the feeling of victory over the challenge before cutting me off and stopping me. That evil, evil dragon! I seem to have lost any idea for what to write, so I guess I have written this about the same thing I started with. I was the second slice, and it will be the second to last slice. Hmm... I have accomplished so much, and have written so successfully, and have managed to get through. Maybe he is just in my head. Maybe he is just a part of all of us. A section of our brain that falters, maybe it is just me.
Miles-- great job! I was showing this to my cousin and brother and they both liked it. This is a redux of a very creative idea and well-done. Good work!
ReplyDeleteYou see, the dragon of promptlessness is its own worst enemy. If he simply left you alone, he would have caused your demise....
ReplyDeleteYes, the awful dragon, but it hasn't reached me until recently, but were done with this slice of life tomorrow. Nice slice!
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