![]() It feels claustrophobic, being back here in this tiny town. It’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten what it feels like to have the frostbitten wind tickle your nose until it turns red, and long enough that I’ve stopped missing it. In LA it’s always the same-heat and swaying palm trees, nothing else. ![]() The moon is wan and listless, sulking up there in the dark like she’s only doing it because she already signed a twelve-month contract saying she had to. Instead, the roads are lined with blackened piles of slushy ice and the front lawns of all the neat little houses are splotched here and there with stubborn white patches. It snowed recently, but not recently enough that it’s still pretty. It’s only been two years, and yet somehow I feel like more of an impostor than Dad’s bulky desk. My room is in a studio apartment across the country, filled with piercing gold Los Angeles sunlight and sheets upon sheets of half-written songs. I feel better here, by the window, sitting in my dad’s desk chair because he’s been using my room as an office. Quilt pressed and straight, pillows perfectly in place. I can hardly even look at my old bed, sitting in the corner under all the music posters that I didn’t bother to take down from the wall before I left. After all, Robert Frost once said that if there’s no surprise in the writer, there will be no surprise in the reader.It’s midnight, but I have no intention of sleeping. You may even learn something about the character that you didn’t know before. Forcing your character to do something outside of their normal routine can do the same thing. The journey can reveal people’s strengths, weaknesses, insecurities, and desires. Then return to your notes and write a scene, short story, poem, whatever you like based on the free-write.ĭeciding to travel on “The Road Not Taken” can be a hard task in real life. Just walk away from it and don’t think about your notes for a little while. Make a pot of tea, walk the dog, whatever. How do they feel about the change? What awaits them on the path? What do they think they will encounter on the new path home?Īfter this free-write, walk away for a few minutes. Spend five minutes in a free-write about their experience taking the road not taken. They have never been down this other road before, don’t even know what lies beyond it, but today they decide to take the road less traveled. The other remains foreign to your character. One path leads directly to their home and is well-worn by your character’s continued use of the road. On the way home, they always come to a fork in the road. Imagine the main character of your current work in progress walking home. While I prefer “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Road Not Taken” is also wonderful.Īs usual, the prompt is simple. Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets. For those who don’t, here’s a link to the Wikipedia entry on the poem. I’m sure that most of you know “The Road Not Taken”. That’s why today’s writing prompt is based on Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”. The circumstances have, however, made me think about decisions and untraveled paths a lot recently. When I have nothing to do for too long, the little demons of my mind set in. I’m scrambling to buy the books I need for my Master’s program, I’m getting more orders on Fiverr, and, of course, I’m trying to make time for my own writing. Hricane on Book Review: Eternal Love by NivedĪrchives Archives Categories Categories Authors.Dixie on Disney’s Grown Up: Frozen Through the Eyes of GAD. ![]() Bill on The Intentional Fallacy, or Authorial Intent.择偶网 on Book Review: Eternal Love by Nived.Book Reviews: Odell’s Fall by Norman Bacal.Book Review: Rational Tax Reform by Jim Hartung.Writing Tools for the Modern Age: Vocal.Friday Fun-Day Writing Prompt: Two Truths and a Lie. ![]() ![]()
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