History That Never Was

The second prompt in the Big Pink Book is simple enough–the line of dots (washi tape) make it perfect for making a list. And the “We go together like …” suggests that it can be for things that go together. The sticker at the bottom involves some concentric circles and dots that reminds me of a wheel and ball bearings, but it could just be decorative, too.

If you’re playing along at home, there are 21 dots along the left-hand margin, though that top one is only a partial dot. So let’s call it 20. And if you happen to be a gamer like me, you might just have d20 sitting around that could be used to randomly generate a number between 1 and 20. Seems like popping some numbers into those dots might give you a random table of something …

I’ll be back on Friday to show you what I did with this page. (Spoiler alert: it’s prompts!)

Tags: random prompts, the big pink book, writing activities, writing prompts

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