Fighting Blogger's Block

I am fighting blogger's block
one prompt at a time
I free write my response
to a randomly generated prompt.

I did an internet search yesterday for blog writing prompts and found several sites. However, one website caught my eye immediately because of its intriguing and creative name. That website is mindbump: Where Great Minds Collide, which has a random prompt generator. The prompts generated are submitted by other bloggers.

Mindpump's random prompt generator gives you a prompt, with the code so that the blogger can copy and past the prompt into the post. This is wonderful because you do not have to worry about typos or keys sticking if you typed the prompt. Once the prompt is in your post, then you respond to it. After writing your response, you link back to the site of the blogger who suggested the prompt.

You can respond to the prompt by writing a story, poem, or slice of life piece. The prompts are creative and cause you to think. They wake both your muse and your brain up. The prompts make good warm up exercises for those of us who are pressed for time and have to make the blog entry and writing warm-up a single post.

In addition, the prompts make good focused free writing exercise. Yes, I sometimes post focused free writes directly into my blog. I time the free write to ten minutes, when the time is up, I do a spell check to make sure my typos and creative spell is fixed; after the spell check, I post the entry.

One prompt at a time
I am fighting blogger's block
writing words and phrases
as they step into my mind.