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PSA: Our neighborhood's weird mailbox art sparked a fun prompt challenge
Used a prompt from here to write a mini mystery about it. My piece got shared at the local cafe's reading night, which was a nice boost lol.
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shane3571mo ago
The local cafe reading night sounds like a fun idea to share that kind of work. What was the actual mystery you wrote about, like did the weird mailbox art become a clue or the crime scene? I'm always curious how people turn a random prompt into a full story. Did figuring out that plot feel hard when you started, or did it just click together? Getting your work shared like that must have been a cool moment to see it connect with people.
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grant3471mo ago
How did I use the mailbox? I turned it into a map for a missing person case, and the plot just clicked from there.
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jamie_schmidt1mo ago
Just imagining @grant347 staring at a mailbox until it turns into a full mystery plot. That's either genius or a sign you need more sleep, man.
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owens.jenny17d ago
Honestly though, how is staring at a mailbox not just a waste of time? Tbh it sounds like you got lucky and just forced a story around a weird object. Most of the time that would just lead to a dead end plot that makes no sense. Getting a story to click from something that random feels more like chance than a real method. Ngl, I'd probably just drive past a weird mailbox and forget about it.
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