"But if you push it off a cliff, it stays in the air, doesn't it?"
Yes, but only if you give it a really good push. One that leaves no trace of you on it.
I'm not sure I can let go like that.
Then it will plunge to the earth and die an embarrassing death.
Can I do it tomorrow?
It's best to jump right in and not think about it too much. That's the hard part, the not thinking too much before you push it over the cliff.
So it just flies all on its own, I don't have to do anything but give it a really good shove and stop thinking, just let it fly.
Correct.
There is one other way to do it. You have to find the trap door, or rather, it has to find you. Then suddenly you are suspended in air. Your choice is to grab for the edge of the trap door and struggle to stay right where you are, or you let go and take the plunge.
You're going straight down on this one, and there's not much chance of going back, but you can bang yourself up pretty good on the way down if you resist at all. In that case, you have to admit defeat. Hey, it happens to all of us.
This method ends up with a product that is all about you.
Your first prompt is the egg broke on the floor
GO
The egg broke on the floor. The ants were the first to notice. Out they trooped, leaving a black ring around the outskirts of the eggy goo. I watched. I wondered who would find it next.
The dog of course, who lapped it up, ants and all. Perhaps this is when he got the cancer. I'd been poisoning those ants, and they poisoned my dog. I'd already tried a number of other remedies, and finally given up. I can't abide by ants all over my kitchen counters! They just keep coming! Soon they are coming in the back door, climbing up my canning jars, getting into everything! Then I have to fumigate!
THEN I GET CANCER.
So it's best to nip that egg problem in the bud, and just get down on your hands and knees and sop it up. You can't really sop up a raw egg though, so I like to scoop as much as I can up in my bare hands, and deposit that in the garbage. Then it's easy to clean up the rest with a cleansing wipe.
Time's up!
Excellent!
So which technique did you use? Did you push the story off the cliff and let it fly, or did you yourself fall through a trap door?
This is my entry to @mariannewest three-prompt freewrite challenge, with a deviation into today's prompt. All prompts are in bold italics.
Not every freewrite of mine is publishable. Yesterday's three prompt freewrite gave me a very hard time. I got one segment for the first prompt that I liked very much, and could not do a thing with the second prompt, so after a bunch of starts and stops, I abandoned the whole affair.
There's been some modification of freewriting going on these days, so I made my own modification by using today's prompt trap door as the second prompt for yesterday's three-prompter, then went back to finish up with yesterday's third prompt. Each segment is the result of five minutes of freewriting, followed by untimed sprucing up without changing content.
Thank you for reading my freewrite!