A Boring Pirate Story
Random Drabble Word Challenge 85
Today’s word is prosy.
A Drabble is a short fiction story of exactly 100 words. No more. No less. Fiction is fake, made up, not true.
The writing instructor said her story was prosy and showed no imagination. He gave it back to her and told her to rewrite it.
Josephine was bound and determined to write an amazing story and pass this stupid creative writing class.
Her original story was about a handsome pirate on an old ship with big white sails sailing the ocean blue.
Okay, now that she reread it, she agreed it was prosy, common, and dull.
Then she wrote, “As the door creaked open, Captain Ron saw something on the bow that he would never see again.”
A new story emerged.
Anna Soldenhoff wrote a wonderful story about dolphins. Who doesn’t love dolphins?
