Free-Writing Exercise: Your Mother...
So I did this free-writing exercise from a prompt I found online. The rules were that I had to write without stopping or do any pre-writing beforehand and the piece had to begin with the words "Your mother." This is what I came up with.
Your mother was a tall woman who wore heels despite the fact that she was over six feet tall. She never left the house without pearls, even when she was going to the grocery store. She looked great in yoga pants and she worked hard to. She loved animals, especially small dogs and she usually had at least two of them. She would dress them in little sweaters and give them names like Mitsy or Bootsie-- even if they were boys-- and she took them for walks on rhinestone studded leashes in her high heels. She was very good at walking in heels because she'd worn them since she was eight years old. In middle school she towered over the boys but she was not good at basketball. She enjoyed sparkly, furry things in pastel colors and she wanted a daughter ever since she could remember. She dated lots of boys in high school who were not intimidated by her height because of her feminine sensibilities and they found her softness a welcoming contrast to her Amazonian build. I loved her since we fingerprinted together in kindergarten but she didn't know I was alive until she dropped out of beauty school when she was twenty. That was when she realized her true dream--to design clothing for dogs. You were born when she was twenty-three. She informed me that she had wanted to name her daughter Lucinda since she was four and I had no say in the matter. I secretly hoped you would be a boy but I adored you from the moment I laid eyes on you on you. I sort of got my wish when you turned out to be a tomboy. She would have been proud of you no matter what and maybe even laughed at the irony but I can guarantee that when your back was turned she would have studded your baseball caps with rhinestones. It was just her way.
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So here's a question for all my writers out there: do you ever use writing prompts or free-write?
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