Mar 20 2012
Writing Prompt: Can Rear Leaders Be Interesting?
A politician* recently declared this about a particular military operation*:
You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan. Never knowing for certain. We never had more than a 48 percent probability that [the objective] was there.
If 100 authors each wrote a story about a commando raid, 98-100 would focus on the raid itself and/or the outcome rather than the decision to launch the raid. Your prompt today: Write a story where a decision by one person or one group of people is more important than its execution by a different person or group of people. Military/political setting not necessary.
*For our purposes here, it doesn’t matter which.