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Magical . . . Prompt #784

A writing prompt can be a word, a phrase, a book title, a line from a poem, or a line from a song. Today’s writing prompt is a word: Magical Write whatever comes to mind when you think “magical.” Blog posts that capture magical and creativity musings. Writing is Magical Creativity as Magic #justwrite   #amwriting   #iamawriter   #creativity

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Trouble . . . Prompt #783

Today’s writing prompt, Trouble, is brought to us by Marcia Aldrich’s post on Brevity, “Too Vast for Words: Writing prompts for Large Subjects.” In this Brevity post, Marcia asks: Do you have a history with this word, trouble? How long has it been important to you? Why this word and not near synonyms? Is it part of a song or movie or book that matters to you? Does your sense of the word differ from what other people might think of it? If so, how? Writing Prompt: Trouble Just Write! #amwriting   #justwrite   #iamawriter

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Sentence Starts . . . Prompt #782

Sentence starts to inspire ideas to write about: Sentence starts If my family had a motto, it would be . . . The kitchen table . . . The worst, or best, thing about my mother / father / sibling / grandparent . . . I will never forget . . . I will always remember . . . My favorite thing to do when I was 8 years old . . . 12 years old . . .14 years old . . . On Saturdays, I liked to . . . I want you to know . . . Just Write! #justwrite   #iamwriting  #iamawriter

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Something happened, and you weren’t the same . . . Prompt #780

Use a pivotal event as a way into writing a personal essay, or a slice of your life . . .  a memoir, or creative non-fiction. A pivotal event is something happened and you weren’t the same after. Obvious pivotal events are graduating from school, first job, getting married, having a baby, retiring. There are more subtle events that, at the time, you didn’t know would be a pivotal event. Those are the events that could result in a riveting essay, or give you closure. Prompt 1 Make a list of things, events, people that you carry in your mind. These are events that you can’t forget. People who haunt you. Memories that you can’t seem to let go. These are things you think about over and over, events that are on repeat in your brain. Things that happened that you can’t stop thinking about, maybe things you lose sleep…