{"id":277,"date":"2024-09-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:56:05","slug":"writing-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt: Airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve gone the &#8220;Random Photo&#8221; route of getting a writing prompt and ran across this photo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/photo-1508138221679-760a23a2285b.jpg\" alt=\"A forest of dark green pine treesin nearly uniform colors form a pattern, broken by the abrupt appearance of a stark white and blue airplane on the forest floor.\nPhoto credit: David Kovalenko, Unsplash.com\n\" class=\"wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/photo-1508138221679-760a23a2285b.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/photo-1508138221679-760a23a2285b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/photo-1508138221679-760a23a2285b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s writing prompt may be slightly short, as a warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hey Jim, thanks for inviting me on this hike!&#8221;<br>&#8220;No problem, Doug, it was a beautiful day just begging to be explored.&#8221;<br>&#8220;I love how on hikes you can never tell what you&#8217;re going to find around the next bennnn&#8230; okay, but usually not that.&#8221;<br>&#8220;What&#8217;s up, Dou- oh. I see.&#8221;<br>&#8220;How did that even <em>get<\/em> here?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Maybe it crashed?&#8221;<br>&#8220;But I&#8217;d expect more, like, plane damage if that happened, you know?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Yeah and the trees behind it are all the same size as the trees around it; you&#8217;d expect it to have plowed some over on impact.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Should we, like, go inside?&#8221;<br>&#8220;I dunno, kinda makes me nervous. Maybe we&#8217;d better just leave it alone?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Y- yeah. Let&#8217;s just&#8230; keep going. Or maybe turn around now?&#8221;<br>&#8220;I&#8217;m okay with that, lets get outta here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several years prior:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sir, I don&#8217;t understand. You&#8217;ve lived modestly all your life and now you&#8217;re spending a large portion of your savings on, let me see if I&#8217;ve got this correct, disassembling and reassembling a plane in the middle of a forest you own. In private. May I ask- <em>Why?<\/em>&#8220;<br>&#8220;You see, Carruthers, when I die I&#8217;m donating this land to the state with conditions it be used as a bird sanctuary and hiking area. Can you imagine the look on those poor shmuck&#8217;s faces when they turn a corner and see an entire <em>plane<\/em> in the forest? Now hand me that wrench.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman<br>Feel free to share via link<br>Do not copy to other websites or skim for AI training<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;ve gone the &#8220;Random Photo&#8221; route of getting a writing prompt and ran across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,36,25,35],"tags":[283,282,112,281,45,37],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-rough-draft","category-writing","category-writing-prompt","tag-eccentric","tag-forest","tag-hiking","tag-plane","tag-writing","tag-writing-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}