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A cringe date made me see the value in awkward moment prompts.
His fumbled hello is now a prompt my writing group uses a lot.
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milesbarnes1d ago
That trip-and-fall exercise actually made our dialogue worse.
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iriskim1d ago
Start by using that fumbled hello to write about body language instead of words. My writing group did this with a trip-and-fall moment, and it forced us to describe shame without naming it. Those awkward prompts now make our characters feel lived-in, like you're catching real people off guard. Honestly, cringe dates are just untapped writing labs, lmao.
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