How Do Your Writing Exercises Work? Essentially, I go to a “Single Word Prompt Generator” and have it throw a random word at me. Then I go to Unsplash.com and use that word to search their database of images, and scroll through for something that catches my attention. This may be something where I simply want to describe what’s in the image, or maybe it sparks a small story nugget in my brain. Regardless, I then take the picture and post it here, with credit, and proceed to write for 15 minutes. Whatever I produce, I share with you lovely people. Unedited. Typos are to be expected. Word Prompt: Fish The birds sing of it, their warnings shrill. The aquatic mammals tell tales, their songs hauntingly sad. The evidence is in our waters. The human contagion is spreading. Plastics, and other refuse spill out from the land they have already infected, and creep into our realm. The only safe place is far out, and very deep, and so my family and I swim far and wide and go deep where we can. It’s not foolproof, their contamination reaches even the darkest depths of the ocean. Wrecks litter the sea floor, but we have reclaimed those for our own. Barnacles live on the hulls, and the water rots the wooden masts over time. Even glass can be worn down eventually. It’s the poisons we can’t assimilate that do the most harm. Oil, and plastic, and pesticides. They seem into the water, into our systems, and try as we might we can’t escape them. As we wander, far and wide, beneath the sun and the moon and beyond the sight of the humans who hunt us, and capture us, we hope to one day find a cure or vaccine for the pandemic that is humanity. Until then, we continue to run, to flee, and to dive deep, searching for safety and somewhere left pure and untouched. #Writing #Original #Writing Exercise #Ari Writes #Arista Writes
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Arista Holmes
I'm a writer in her thirties, who is based in the South East of England. Archives
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