What if you were lazy?
Ruth Wakefield
was.
Yet she
still fully expected those chocolate drop cookies to show up in the oven.
Her
result?
The super-fabulous
chocolate chip cookie.
What if you were vengeful?
George
Crum was.
After a
customer sent back his plate of potatoes for the third time complaining that
they weren't cut thin enough, George said, “Well, have fun reading the Scriptures
through these!” and sawed those taters paper-thin.
His
result?
The
potato chip.
What if you were messy?
Patsy
Sherman was.
While attempting
to develop a material that wouldn't deteriorate with exposure to jet fuels, she
dropped the concoction on her shoe. She dropped a whole bunch of other stuff on
it, too. But that first spot always looked brand-spanking new.
Her
result?
Scotchgard.
What if you got it completely wrong?
Spencer Silver
did.
He once set on a quest to create the world’s strongest adhesive. Instead, he discovered one
that barely stuck at all.
His
result?
The
post-it note.
What if all of your mistakes were
marvelous, too?
PROMPT: Take action in all the wrong ways
today. Go ahead and make that plot too thin, your dialogue stiff, and your
prose too wordy. The whole point, of course, is ACTION! Unless of course, you decided to work the lazy angle. Well,
then…
Enjoy
those cookies!
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