Tried a 'write a novel in a month' prompt and ended up with 12 pages about a talking cat

I sat down on November 1st with a big coffee and a plot outline. By day 3, my main character was a cat who kept arguing with me about the ending. Guess I learned that some prompts just want to be silly from the start.

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fionat5513d ago

Oh man, that cat sounds way more fun than my disaster. I did the same thing last year and by week two my detective novel turned into a romance between a grumpy baker and a ghost who kept knocking over her mixing bowls. It was honestly hard to go back to regular writing after that. The silly prompts just take over your brain and won't let go.

blairm7713d ago

Wait hold on. A ghost that knocks over mixing bowls? That's the detail I'm stuck on. How does that even work? Like is the ghost a jerk or just clumsy?

the_ben13d ago

Three weeks into that kind of thing and I started leaving out a little saucer of milk for the ghost. Figured if it was gonna mess with my baking stuff it might as well be on my side. My grandma always said a grumpy spirit is just a bored one and she was right because after I started leaving notes the knocking over stopped. Now I just get a weird cold draft every time I pull out the vanilla extract.