Writing Group Prompt for November

Each month, the writing group I belong to sets out a prompt for the next meeting. We then have a month to write a poem or something from that prompt that we read at the next meeting. I also figured these would work nicely as blog posts. The prompt for our November meeting was "If life were like …." This is what I wrote.

What if life were like writing? We'd never have to settle for the first draft. If you – the main character – said something stupid when talking to the person you had a...