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Gabriela Trofin-Tatár's avatar

I love drabbles, and Mary is fantastic! I’ve written some on Medium and was thinking of connecting them into a novel, one drabble at a time. At some point, I stopped, but my husband encouraged me to continue because he really enjoyed reading my drabbles :) Thanks, Mary for reminding me also.

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Rafael Concepcion's avatar

Those are some great ideas for getting started when the words just won’t come. I read a book by the prolific Dean Koontz called Writing Popular Fiction, and he had some interesting prompts. One of them was to make up an oddball or outrageous title and then start writing a story to make sense of it. He suggested using contrasting words in the title to bring out something interesting and unique. The only title I remember from the book is “Soft Come the Dragons,” the contrast between dragons and softness being the prompt that got his imagination going. He sold the story that resulted from that title and he’s used this idea many times since. I’ve not written a thing lately because my wife’s been ill and I’ve been having one big ugly fibromyalgia flare since Thanksgiving. I have jotted a few story ideas in a little notebook, but haven’t been at the keyboard in quite a while. Congratulations on doubling your subscribers and please keep the little stories coming. ‘Bye for now!

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