With the new year upon us, my writing group and I decided to renew our commitment to our regular meetings and being productive. Lately, when we met at all, we ended up drinking coffee and gossiping. Plus, with the incentive of new blood in the form of my new coworker, we were galvanized shamed into doing something with ourselves.
We, amongst the four of us, we paired off and gave one another writing prompts for our upcoming meeting on January 19th. We decided not to set a word count or other restrictions on the prompt. That way, we could be free to incorporate the prompt into something we were already working on or craft something new. We're on the honor system to make it a worthwhile effort.
The prompt I gave my partner was the apocalypse, since it had been December 21st and we were all waiting for the world to end. She replied with prompting me with Winter Solstice.
I have it on good confidence that one of the prompts giving in the other pair was racist balloons. So. Make of that what you will.
I have not yet started working on my prompt story. After a brief internet search, I found some background info on the winter solstice that has drummed up some ideas, something about it being an ancient ceremony to celebrate the awakening and return of the sun god that sounds promising. I'm interested to see what I will make it of.
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