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Tuesday's Mystery Prompter's Prompt May 10

Mysterious Blog Prompts by our mystery guest prompter every Tuesday in the Banana bar
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Prompt: What is the one thing nobody tells you about _______?

         

         

         

What is the one thing nobody tells you about prompts? Nobody, no one, not a soul has ever told me prompts were easy. They are not at all like taking candy from a baby. Sure, there's some degree of stickiness and often a wee bit of wailing when I must tackle a prompt. There's not always a temper tantrum with kicking and flailing. Sulking in a corner while serving a time out isn't helpful either.

         No one mislead me with platitudes, or promised something better. I was left to flounder and fuss as best I could. No pats on the head accompanied by murmurs of 'easy peasy lemon breezy' sugarcoated any prompts I read.

I must admit to struggling with the intricacies of pastry making, so it comes as no surprise that prompts are not as easy as pie. Now if they could consider being as easy as eating pie... Perhaps they could also be as sweet as pie.

         Sigh. Prompts are never as simple as ABCs. Yes, they consist of words and therefore a combination of letters, yet they convolute, confuse, connive. What does any prompt mean? What does the prompt provoke? Wait, is that supposed to be evoke? Maybe it rhymed and it meant to be stoke, or cloak.

         What am I rambling about? Prompts force me to think. Isn't writing an exercise in spontaneity? I wouldn't describe it as carefree, or inconsiderable.

         Note to self: Ease up on the thesaurus consultation. You lingered too long at the entries for 'easy.'