January Writing Prompt Challenge: Day 21
Jan. 21st, 2021 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerTrying to be quick today - I have some more game thinking to do (running D&D tomorrow night) AND I'm getting up early so I can log off and have a little decompression time after work. So let's get to it! Going to do an "as they lie" prompt and just run with it.
DAY TWENTY-ONE PROMPT:
An imposter wants to bring despair with a scarred flag, but it will cost their self-respect.
The set-up feels straightforward enough to me, it's the conflict I'm having trouble working in. Maybe I'll make all of this a metaphor for something much more mundane and see what comes of it. An imposter... maybe someone with imposter syndrome? Or a con woman who is in over her head at a job she lied about having credentials for. A scarred flag could be... a brand? Maybe she got a job at a Google like place, a vaguely evil corporation, and has the opportunity to orchestrate a social media faux-pas that would do HUGE damage to the brand... but she'd never work in the industry again. Maybe not a huge threat since she's a fraud to start with - but of course being a woman there's the possibility that she'd be harassed about it, because people are garbage. How bad to things have to get before she decides it's worth it to go out in a blaze of glory?
That worked out all right! Now game time, maybe laundry or dishes time, and bed time.
DAY TWENTY-ONE PROMPT:
An imposter wants to bring despair with a scarred flag, but it will cost their self-respect.
The set-up feels straightforward enough to me, it's the conflict I'm having trouble working in. Maybe I'll make all of this a metaphor for something much more mundane and see what comes of it. An imposter... maybe someone with imposter syndrome? Or a con woman who is in over her head at a job she lied about having credentials for. A scarred flag could be... a brand? Maybe she got a job at a Google like place, a vaguely evil corporation, and has the opportunity to orchestrate a social media faux-pas that would do HUGE damage to the brand... but she'd never work in the industry again. Maybe not a huge threat since she's a fraud to start with - but of course being a woman there's the possibility that she'd be harassed about it, because people are garbage. How bad to things have to get before she decides it's worth it to go out in a blaze of glory?
That worked out all right! Now game time, maybe laundry or dishes time, and bed time.
