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That writing prompt generator advice from a Reddit stranger saved my draft
Last month I was stuck on a fantasy scene where my character had to cross a cursed river. A user in this sub told me to stop describing the water and instead write the scene as if the river was a character with its own agenda. I thought it sounded silly, but I tried it for 3 days straight. The result was a 2,000 word piece that my critique group actually praised, which never happens. The trick was giving the river a voice and a grudge, not just listing wet rocks and fog. Now I use that method for any obstacle in my prompts, not just rivers. Has anyone else gotten weird advice from a forum that turned out to be gold? What was it?
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stella1217d ago
Wait, did the person actually tell you to make the river a character, or did they say something more like "give the river a goal"? Because the way you're telling it now makes it sound like the advice was about turning objects into people, and that's not quite the same thing. The trick isn't that the river has a voice, it's that it wants something and your character is in the way of it getting that thing. I say this because a lot of people read posts like yours and then start writing talking rivers and haunted fog, and their scene gets worse, not better. The grudge part matters more than the voice part. Next time try it with a locked door or a storm and you'll see what I mean. So what was the exact wording of the original tip, if you still have the comment?
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