Steps taken in the Pick a Word Twine prompt: by Allison DeDecker
- Pick a word, any word, & write it down: I chose plant. For its opposite, I picked rock.
- Wrote 2 sentences.
- Changed pronouns from she/her to he/him.
- Changed POV from 3rd to 2nd person. To accommodate this, I also changed some words.
- Picked 2nd word: grief. Checked to make sure it wasn’t in the first one.
- Wrote “Joy” as its opposite.
- Wrote another 2 sentences.
- Killed off the main character; and to have it make sense I had to add 1 more sentence.
- Picked a third word; chose cup.
- For a “disintegrating antonym,” I chose “hammer,” it’s not really an opposite per se but it can destroy.
- Wrote 3rd story, went back in and eliminated adjectives.
- Shortened a few words to six letters or less.
- Looked at the 3 stories, think maybe they can be about the same characters.
- Decide maybe the stories work in reverse.
- Look for any obvious connections and don’t see any- don’t really think there is.
- Do some minimal rewriting as recommended.
- Note: I did have a few times where I would click a button and it would take me back a step and I preferred not repeating steps over and over so I clicked around until I moved to the next phase.