Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts: Weird Combination
I’m back today with how I used prompt 7 in the Big Pink Book, which had four stickers that presented a weird combination. I used them to write a drabble, interpreting the stickers as futuristic warning symbols indicating atmospheric and other dangers!
This page shows you some insight into both my drafting and revision processes. I wrote longhand to get the first draft done, then counted the words, scribbling the word counts on the right-hand side. When I finished my draft, it was 122 words, so 22 words longer than a drabble is meant to be.
The next step was to cut words. I had cut the scratched out line as I drafted, because it felt like it was restating the obvious. Then, I marked most of one sentence, an entire short sentence, and a short part of a sentence (originally with an orange marker, which was hard to read, so I went over it with blue marker) for cutting. That got me down to 100 words. But then I re-read it and found some more things to cut or revise (marked in only blue), added a few words, and decided that I wanted that very short sentence back.
When I typed this drabble, I made a couple other tweaks to the wording as well, but kept it at exactly 100 words. When it’s eventually published, I’ll share it on my blog and link back to this post, so you can see how the final revisions panned out!
Did you come up with a different theme or idea based on this prompt? I’d love to hear about it!
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