Ideas Are Like Kneading Dough

Keep working them

Words, ideas, sentences, paragraphs, and stories are like kneaded dough. They need literary yeast to grow to their full potential.

And although most of them cannot be salvaged, I still dove into a few of my old writing pieces. In rereading some of them that I wrote more than 10 years ago, I found out that no matter how bad the writing, there were some golden nuggets in there.

All I had to do was to sift through stories and select the one that could rise to the top. I ended up reviving a sentence and a quote that resulted in License Plate Philosophy. Mobile wisdom | by CARMEN F MICSA | Literary Impulse | Sep, 2021 | Medium.

So go ahead and find those golden nuggets in your writing. I promise you that they are there.

This short form was inspired by a prompt from Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)

What’s One Piece You Wrote Earlier That Deserves to be Seen? | by Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) | The Brain is a Noodle | Aug, 2021 | Medium

the frog at the bottom of the well | by Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) | The Brain is a Noodle | Medium

Tagging Amy Shearn, Barb Dalton, Lindsay Chervinsky, Ph.D., Chris Sowers, Don Johnson, Em Hoccane, Kimberly Fosu, Franco Amati, GB Rogut, Roz Warren, Ivette Cruz, Kim Petersen, Raluca Enescu, Naoki Hiroshima, Noorain Hassan, BMS, Mukundarajan V N, Sarah Olson Michel, Tree Langdon, Vishnu*s Virtues, William J Spirdione, and anyone else wanting to have a little fun with their old writing.