I haven’t been doing them on time, if I’ve been doing them at all. Sometimes I can’t even remember which ones I’ve done and which ones I haven’t. I’m going to switch up the way I choose the prompts and might adjust what I write and when I write them.

I’ve been doing more ‘research’ work and I just get carried away and forget that I’m meant to be practice writing using prompts. I think I might make them less specific in direction because I start just kind of running out of fuel to think of something for a writing prompt and so then just don’t bother. Instead of ‘character, general, setting and poetry’, I might change it more to ‘small, large, general, feature, poetry’ where I’ll have more flexibility over it. Sometimes it’s good to force yourself to practice, but recently it has just been spitting out boring and off-target writing so I need to shake it up for a while.

I think I might change where I get my prompts from as well. I currently use Writeometer but I find their prompts are often not easy to write about. I prefer things that are descriptors as prompts, like colours, smells, behaviour etc. and so trying to work with a prompt palette that’s ‘dispersion, concord, detach, deviation, daze, absurd and cringe’ is proving to be a bit difficult. Especially for the kind of writing prompt types I was trying to do. I’ve had an easier time designing from images rather than words so I might even go back to that.

The interesting part of trying new things in writing is trying to work out what works for me. It’s always interesting how little we consciously know about ourselves until we analyse the things we do.