Of Quibbles and Questions

Prompt of the Day #15

Take an idiom, proverb or frequently used moral and either manipulate its meaning, add something to it or develop it into a story. Think of people like Oscar Wilde or Woody Allen, they're rather well known for doing this.

There are two parts that I'd like to look at for this image. The first is simply: you should be the Opportunist. You need to be otherwise you're likely to fail. Your writing can be one or many of the above but ultimately you won't go anywhere with your writing if you don't make the most of every chance that comes your way. I say it a lot, I know, but don't forget it. The second is, don't you find the addition of the third 'character' to be pretty interesting? Something like this image, simple though it may be, adds a new character to the story making it more dynamic. It's comic, your mouth twitches into a grin, maybe a little giggle bubbles up in your chest. Innovative? Yes. 

You're telling a story, let's take a standard example: boy meets girl. Do you think that the reason we're drawn to a very simple, fairly mundane tale, is because it's familiar? Do you think it dominates bookshop shelves because we like reading the same things over and over? Of course not, there's an element of reinvention. 


All you need in a little spark of something new and you revitalise the banal and overdone. 

Je serai poète et toi poésie,
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