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RE: In Search Of Leprechaun Gold: A Short, Weird Trip
hi @glenalbrethsen
a really interesting post, I agree with @ blueeyes8960, at first I thought it was the beginning of your day and that I went to play a trick on your neighbors !! But when did you start writing? Did you wait all the words before you started or did you do it a little at a time?
Congratulations and thank you for sharing with us!
Hey, @road2horizon.
Generally when I'm using a bunch of the daily prompts in one story, I'm going in the order they were given—so then I'm not picking what prompt goes when. And I wait until a number of them are revealed before writing the story, and then I go for it.
In doing so, that kind of guides the story in one direction or another until the next word is used. I think it's fun, but it can cause the story to get crazier than what I was thinking it would starting out.
I had an idea of what I wanted to do, since I had the picture to begin with. I knew it was going to be about rainbows and a pot of gold, but that's about it. The rest unfolded after that.
Since it's part of the five minute freewrite, I like to show people how far I got in five minutes (which is never very far), and then, if needs be, finish the story. Most of the time, I need a lot more to finish the story. In this case, five minutes in, I didn't even use the first prompt yet. :)
What I didn't mean to happen was for people to think it was a real story. :) I'll need to watch that in the future, because I certainly don't want to be deceiving anyone.
Nooo, the fact that it seemed a real story gives it a lot of charm, it's intriguing !!! I've never tried to do this kind of story, it seems like a good challenge, sooner or later I'll do it! Thanks for your explanation, really well done!