The wind is like the ocean blowing in the trees.
The green waves bend, and sway back again.
Wrote that on a receipt while in the car watching the trees on a windy day. Later there were tornado warnings.
Writing Prompt: What would you write about a windy day, or a snowy, rainy day, some kind of weather other than hot and sunny.
Found on several Etsy shops: "My broom broke.. so now I write".
I like the idea, but it doesn't really make sense as a thing for writers.
- now I work from home.
- now I'm dating my bus driver.
- now I charge the dust bunnies rent.
What can you come up with?
Think of a fanzine you might have written. (Maybe you even did write one). After all the issues, the community you may have found, the new things you learned as you published about your favourite TV show, celebrity, type of fruit, grocery store chain, etc. How would you finish it all, a final goodbye?
I thought this was such a great creative writing idea. Writing sort of a eulogy for your creative passion once its wound down. Maybe you ran out of things to say. Maybe you got tired of it. Maybe your opinion about the whole thing changed. Maybe it got to be too expensive. There are lots of reasons a small, self publication, a fanzine, would close down. Would that be part of your final issue, or would you leave it for people to guess at? Leave them wanting more?
You might make a final grand statement, an epic summary of everything you have found and learned. I think I'd try to do that then change my mind when I couldn't make it short enough, or be sure I hadn't forgotten something and then want to write another final issue.
Of course, if you've never written a fanzine this could be your one and only. The one and only fanzine about wilted lettuce... giraffes... bicycle lanes... the evolution of Sunday shopping... there really is no end to the range of ideas and topics. They don't even have to take themselves very seriously.
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