I regularly attend writing workshops and recently I went to one that focused on marketing books using social media. While I haven’t published any books yet (emphasis on the yet), it’s a good idea to have a platform in place when I reach that point. To that end I have created an Instagram and Twitter account. To make these social media accounts effective, I regularly have to engage with them and be engaged by those who follow me. This is a challenge as I don’t often post much because I don’t think of my everyday life as being “post worthy”. I spend most of my mornings at my computer writing or studying and I spend my afternoons taking long walks and reading. It’s great for me as a routine goes but it’s pretty boring to post about day after day.
To help me with my social media engagement, I came up with a concept I can post about regularly. Last week I kicked off a weekly social media campaign called “Wednesday Writer’s Prompt”. The idea is to post a picture or text prompt each Wednesday as a writing exercise. I follow a lot of writers through social media and a few of them follow me so maybe it will catch on and inspire someone to write something. That’s the goal anyway.
Below is today’s writing prompt. It’s a picture I took near sunset at Lake Easton State Park a few weeks ago.
Here is what I wrote for this prompt:
We’ve been walking this road for so long; from sunrise now to sunset. My feet hurt. I want to stop. I want to rest. The bugs are out, gnawing at what little remains of us. How have bugs survived when so many of us haven’t? Rest is coming, at least rest from walking. Rest from dying and starvation, rest from choking on the air and baking in the sun will only come if we reach where we’re going. I hope this road gets us there. So few of us left, so many miles to go.
End Transmission.