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Today’s writing prompt is inspired by Jumpstart Writing Facilitator Lakin Khan. From Lakin: Participants in the Jumpstart Writing Workshops that I facilitate have been doing some ekphrastic writing, which is descriptive writing about or a response to visual art. We have been having fun looking at paintings and photos, imaging stories and practicing writing visual descriptions. Lakin’s response to a postcard of Claude Monet’s painting “Wheat Stacks at Dawn.” “Frost is the frosting on these giant cupcakes of hay waiting in the pale pearly peachlight of dawn for the Giant of Alsace to stomp down the hill for his morning meal. At least so far, he’s been happy with hay. What might happen if he decides to go all keto on us and demand ostrich-eggs over easy and a side of humans to start his day?”   ~ Lakin Khan Another example is Anne Sexton’s poem “Starry Night” one of many ekphrastic responses to…

~ “Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever.” How Green Was My Valley. Write about someone who lives on in you or someone you will never forget. ~ “We’ll always have Paris.” Casablanca. Write about something you will always have or something you no longer have and wish you still had it. ~ “I was to think of these days many times. Of Jem, and Dill . . . and Atticus. He would be in Jem’s room all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning, To Kill A Mockingbird. Write about someone who is always there for you. Or someone who needs you. ~ In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, there’s a scene where Butch and Sundance run up a mountain to avoid the relentless posse, finding…