Waterworld (writing prompts!)

And some inspiration from Mike Schur...

Before we get to today’s writing prompts, I want to share this quote from Mike Schur (creator of The Good Place and Parks and Recreation):

“My love of comedy came from what I have loosely classified as “suburban boredom”, which is the, a class of comedian that I would include like Monty Python as like a classic example. It's a lot of like silliness and goofiness where everybody has crazy names and there's a lot just like, it's very, it's gentle. It's not cutting or incisive in its investigation of the human condition. It's more silly than anything else.

“So I think that was my origin story. And then over time, I have taken subject matters that I care about, like the role of government in people's lives or the ways in which marginalized groups of people have tended to be ignored or overlooked or whatever, and I have merged those two things with the help of other people, who-who are coming at things from a different angle. And that what ends up happening is like an ensemble show that has a message behind it, or a, or a theme or an idea, but where the comedy itself tends to be sort of friendly. It's the result of like who I am, what I care about, and the people that I tend to work with.”

Which got me thinking about who I am as a writer, and I want to pose these questions to you:

What is your writing origin story?
Who are you?
What do you care about?
And how do you incorporate all of those things into your writing?

And now, in a total 180, today’s writing prompts were inspired by the movie Waterworld.