I address the WordPress prompt most every day. Being that they often sound like questions cribbed for personality tests, I usually twist, spindle, and mutilate the prompts in whatever creative way that I can.
A challenge can be when it’s the third time you’ve answered the prompt. Then you have to get crafty, devious, and perverse-minded. But, hey, I was Pius Itinerant ( road bum), and an anthropologist; it sort of comes as second nature.
But seriously, I wonder what goes on at Prompt Central, you know, those old cubbyhole offices down the dark corridor, past the old bathrooms nobody uses, where the vending machines all have stale items in them. Some prompt technician, third class, is trying to analyze my twisted and warped sense of humor. It’s not helping his stress levels, blood pressure, or digestion.
In the meantime, I’m just looking out for my next diversion. We used to call it “Tying knots in the Devil’s Tail”.
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When I began my blog, I didn’t do the WP prompts, then I saw how they could be useful to me as a writer. They were awful, worse than now. Most of them seemed to have been derived from songs by the Cranberries. “We” actually revolted against them, and then went away. That’s when RagTagDaily prompt was formed, a kind of grassroots uprising. We figured just ONE word was enough of a launching point OR something a person could just inject in whatever it was they wanted to write then use the link as a way to get readers and meet people. I think we’ve been going strong for more than a decade now.
I didn’t know the history of the Rag Tag Prompt; that’s interesting. Very often, the other prompts give me the guidance on which to twist the daily. It’s fun, and sometimes I sit there and just wonder, “Where the hell did that come from?”
Yep. Well, that’s the story. I never imagined RDP would last so long — I think 10 years?
It’s a good prompt. I always use it.
I know! Otherwise I probably wouldn’t have “met” you!!! 😀
Perish the thought! It’s hugely enjoyable having friends on WP, and keeps me from repeating the sins of my youth.
Ha ha ha!