Scrooged (writing prompts!)

And some inspiration from James Baldwin.

As always, let’s start with a quote. This is James Baldwin:

“[My first drafts] are overwritten. Most of the rewrite, then, is cleaning. Don’t describe it, show it. That’s what I try to teach all young writers—take it out! Don’t describe a purple sunset, make me see that it is purple.... The hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. It becomes more difficult because you have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of which you didn’t know you had. You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”

We’re not rewriting today, but I like how he describes that.

Today’s prompts were inspired by the movie SCROOGED.