1. oblique strategies are a set of cards with instructions that are designed to encourage creative thinking. there's versions for android, iphone, web, and apparently even a gameboy version that can run in your browser. kinda wanna put the gameboy version on my phone with retroarch tbh.
2.free writing is a method which in which you continue writing without making edits--pouring your thoughts onto the page--i'd suggest that before you begin, you determine when you will stop--having reached a certain wordcount or until a timer has run out. you may use unorthodox grammar or spell things wrong, you may not use the backspace key. at the point you have finished, you are allowed to make edits, rewrite it, or simply throw it into the garbage. it was inspired by kerouac's works.
3.the cut-up method asks the writer to disassemble pre-existing writing (it may be your own or otherwise) and reassemble it, in order to produce new meaning. while this may sound silly, you are of course free to employ it in tandem with more orthodox techniques, perhaps as a poem contained within a greater text. as with free writing, it was developed by a beat writer, burroughs.
answering your question ---
as for a prompt, i come from the school of write-what-you know, so i'd suggest writing a story inspired by your experience of genuine events with alterations to make it fictional, as in vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5. you could even have that idea exist within a fictitious historical account of babylonion secret society. how would a historian describe a babylonion NEET cult before days of yore?
i'd imagine a historian would write on it as though its particpants were vile things, but with great care to make his contempt sound clinically objective. perhaps the ones most likely study & write upon such a thing would be those who have some admiration for such a way of being. and of course there's the writer who commends & chastises his subject in the same breath.
techniques for creative writing---
1. oblique strategies are a set of cards with instructions that are designed to encourage creative thinking. there's versions for android, iphone, web, and apparently even a gameboy version that can run in your browser. kinda wanna put the gameboy version on my phone with retroarch tbh.
2. free writing is a method which in which you continue writing without making edits--pouring your thoughts onto the page--i'd suggest that before you begin, you determine when you will stop--having reached a certain wordcount or until a timer has run out. you may use unorthodox grammar or spell things wrong, you may not use the backspace key. at the point you have finished, you are allowed to make edits, rewrite it, or simply throw it into the garbage. it was inspired by kerouac's works.
3. the cut-up method asks the writer to disassemble pre-existing writing (it may be your own or otherwise) and reassemble it, in order to produce new meaning. while this may sound silly, you are of course free to employ it in tandem with more orthodox techniques, perhaps as a poem contained within a greater text. as with free writing, it was developed by a beat writer, burroughs.
answering your question---
as for a prompt, i come from the school of write-what-you know, so i'd suggest writing a story inspired by your experience of genuine events with alterations to make it fictional, as in vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5. you could even have that idea exist within a fictitious historical account of babylonion secret society. how would a historian describe a babylonion NEET cult before days of yore?
i'd imagine a historian would write on it as though its particpants were vile things, but with great care to make his contempt sound clinically objective. perhaps the ones most likely study & write upon such a thing would be those who have some admiration for such a way of being. and of course there's the writer who commends & chastises his subject in the same breath.
good luck