What For me, what comes out usually depends on the story. It depends on how much wiggle room I have in canon, and what plot holes I need workarounds for, and really, just the story that wants to be told. I once managed around 25,000 words simply from the prompt 'watermelon'.
Why This is really tied into 'what' for me. A lot of my current work is for Power Rangers, which gives me a lot of plot holes that are fun to try and logic out. Plus, the characters really grab me, so I'm interesting enough in them to see where I can them. I tend to avoid prompts/challeges that pose time limits/lengths, mainly because things like that 'watermelon' prompt happen on a regular basis. (I've got another set in WIP mode and I've already cleared 50,000 and I'm not even half done.) Plus, I'm a slow writer who's working and going to school part time, so my writing time is very limited.
How Most of my writing comes from asking either 'how' or 'what if'. Like, how is this possible? Or what if this happend? And the stories spring from there. I tend to let the idea just percolate in my mind, I play scenes in my head like mini-movies until I find the one that lets the general outline of the story flow through. Once I have a decent mental outline, usually with a couple of set scenes, then I just start writing.
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For me, what comes out usually depends on the story. It depends on how much wiggle room I have in canon, and what plot holes I need workarounds for, and really, just the story that wants to be told. I once managed around 25,000 words simply from the prompt 'watermelon'.
Why
This is really tied into 'what' for me. A lot of my current work is for Power Rangers, which gives me a lot of plot holes that are fun to try and logic out. Plus, the characters really grab me, so I'm interesting enough in them to see where I can them. I tend to avoid prompts/challeges that pose time limits/lengths, mainly because things like that 'watermelon' prompt happen on a regular basis. (I've got another set in WIP mode and I've already cleared 50,000 and I'm not even half done.) Plus, I'm a slow writer who's working and going to school part time, so my writing time is very limited.
How
Most of my writing comes from asking either 'how' or 'what if'. Like, how is this possible? Or what if this happend? And the stories spring from there. I tend to let the idea just percolate in my mind, I play scenes in my head like mini-movies until I find the one that lets the general outline of the story flow through. Once I have a decent mental outline, usually with a couple of set scenes, then I just start writing.