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Came back to a prompt file from 2019 and hit 31 unfinished story openers
I keep a running file of writing prompts called openers.txt and last night I scrolled to the bottom and actually counted what was in there. 31 pieces, and the oldest one is from October 2019, a two sentence hook about a woman finding her own name in a lost and found box. I thought I had maybe a dozen. Some of them are just one line. Others run 200 words before they stop cold mid sentence, which is somehow worse, because you can see I was excited and then just quit. Three of them are the same story idea written three different ways, which means I keep circling back to it and never commit. I am posting this here as a heads up, because if you keep prompts in a file like I do and you think it is a small pile, count it. Mine was not a small pile. What do you all do with the old ones, dig them out and finish them or just let them sit?
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jordan_morgan7912d ago
Digging through old stuff like that is worth it once in a while. Did the same with a folder of half-started songs from years back and pulled out five or six that just needed a fresh look. Finished two of them in a weekend and they turned out better than the new stuff I was writing at the time. Pick the three versions of that same idea and read them side by side, then keep whatever lines still hold up and toss the rest.
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