I always call it ‘my first daft’ because I let the ideas roll recklessly out of my mind onto the page. No censoring, no editing. That comes later. That comes at the draft stage. For the moment what you have before you, were you to read it, is ‘daffy’, it makes little or no sense. It is amorphous writing. This little piece began amorphously, no punctuation, grammar awry, phrases all jumbled like a Rubik’s Cube before it is solved. If you’re in a hurry, if the ideas are rushing past, then daft writing is the way to go.
John Malone 
A man after my own heart, John!
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thanks Matthew. Never mind the daffiness 🙂
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‘Daffy like the duck
is great if you are stuck
creation maybe, but looks like muck
you’re maybe thinking, at writing you suck
keep on going, get ideas out, like an egg for a chook, cluck
writing, when good, takes more perspiration, than it takes luck
do your best, accept both praise and blame, don’t pass the buck
better stop now, lest I write something rude, so not profanity will intrude!’
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brilliant, Carolyn; I love it; very clever with all those same end rhymes; clever in so many levels — now yours is a poem you could use as a prompt 🙂
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Hmm, on re-reading this super quick first draft I posted here, I have to say, it is quite clever, isn’t it? I can see at least two errors that would need to be fixed before I would do anything else with it, but given the time it took to write it (ten minutes, maximum), not bad at all, if I do say so myself!
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So obviously, this was an excellent writing prompt, and I say thank you, John!
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ten minutes, wow!! you were inspired !
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I agree. Somehow, the best ideas come once you are in bed and switch off the lights. I have written more stories in the moonlight than I can count. Some of them hardly more than scribble on a page.
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ahh yes but it’s what we make from that scribble that is the true magic 🙂
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