Instead of editing my short story yesterday, I ended up composing a response to a writing prompt.  I read the prompt in the morning and a partially formed story dropped into my head immediately.  I had a 2 hour bike ride planned and spent most of it thinking about the prompt and structuring the story in my head.  I worked it out in the afternoon, about 2 ½ hours of writing.  Not much editing.  Just did a read through and fixed a couple things, then ran spell check.  2200 words.  It’s not perfect and I was starting to go down the road to make it perfect, but I forced myself to go pencils down and hands in the air.  It was starting to become distracting and that’s not the point of writing prompts.  At least, I don’t think it is.  Anyway, I submitted it and since I’m new to the site where I posted it, am waiting to see if it’s approved.  I think I followed the submission guidelines.  They say, however, to keep the submissions a “reasonable length” without defining reasonable.  I define it as something that can be read under an hour.  2200 words should fit the bill for most people.  However,  it is significantly longer than most responses to prompts that I’ve read on the site.  Guess I’ll see how it goes and in any case, it was a fun exercise.  I feel guilty for abandoning my short story on a day when I had the time to turn it, but it was probably good for me to take a break.  I re-worked a major section of the short story on Saturday.  The troublesome part sounds good now.