Write about something you own that you really don’t like.
Why do you keep it?
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Treasured possession . . . Prompt #757
Write about your most treasured possession.
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Caring and sharing . . . Prompt #756
Caring and sharing make emotional journeys bearable.
Write about a time someone made you feel cared for.
Or, a time you showed care and concern.
Bonus points if it was a surprise.
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I’ve been struggling . . . Prompt #755
I’ve been struggling with . . .
Or, I struggled . . .
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The thing about grief . . . Prompt #754
Inspired by an email from Susan Bono:
I was at Dollar Tree the other day and didn’t have quite enough cash to cover my Halloween garlands.
As I fumbled with my card, the cashier said, “I never carry cash anymore.”
I said, “I don’t either, but I miss it sometimes.”
She looked at me full in the face and said, “There are things I miss every single day about the way things used to be.”
I saw such grief in her face before she smiled and urged me to have a nice day.
Prompt: Write whatever comes up for you . . .
Shopping at the Dollar Tree store
Halloween
Cash vs credit card
I miss . . .
The way things used to be . . .
The thing about grief is . . .
Susan Bono is the author of “What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home.” Available on Amazon.
“The world is full of stories. Mine collect in journals, spill onto postcards and scraps of paper, come to conclusions in computer files, call to me in dreams. I write what I believe is true about my experiences, not just events that happened to me.
I’m not sure what’s more important: the raw aliveness of a dashed-off journal entry or the carefully developed and edited essay, finally (one hopes) complete. I only know that every story is a shard of mirror that shows me pieces of who I am and what it means to be human.” —Susan Bono
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Got away with it . . . Prompt #752
Sit back. Relax into your chair. Take a deep breath in. Hold. Release.
Empty your mind. Let go of thoughts. Settle your mind.
Remember back to your teenage years. Full of promise and full of hope for fun.
Hope that special someone notices you.
Looking forward to fun times.
Hope you won’t get caught doing whatever you weren’t supposed to be doing.
Because this was a time to take risks, to sneak past authority, to try new behavior.
Prompt: Write about one of those times . . . you got away with something you shouldn’t have been doing.
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Delights . . . Prompt #751
There are big delights . . . being treated to a meal, a stimulating conversation where the other person looks right at you and hears you.
Medium delights . . .
And small delights . .
Write about something that delighted you.
Writing Prompt: Delights
Prompt inspired by “The Book of Delights” by Ross Gay.
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Kindness . . . Prompt #750
Write about a time someone was kind to you, especially when you didn’t expect it.
Or, write about a kindness you witnessed.
Or, a kindness you showed someone.
Write Spot prompts about kindness:
Kindness. Prompt #482
A Time You Fumbled. Prompt #602
Random Acts of Kindness. Prompt #698
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Birth Day . . . Prompt #749
Remember self-care when writing about difficult topics:
Get up, walk around.
Take a sip of water or herbal tea.
Choose something in your surroundings to look at when the writing gets difficult.
Look at that focal point as a reminder to breathe.
Take a deep breath in. Hold. And release.
Take a few more calming breaths.
Write this in your notebook or on a piece of paper.
What I really want to say . . .
I remember . . .
I don’t remember . . .
If you are stuck with writing, you can use one of these phrases and go from there.
Writing Prompt: Birth Day
Think about your Birth Day.
Maybe you had many birthday parties.
Maybe you had a handful of parties, or one or two.
Maybe your Birth Day is a big deal and you wildly celebrate.
Or, maybe you are the quiet type, preferring not to call attention to yourself.
Maybe you think of your Birth Day as “just another day.”
Whether you celebrate or not, you travel around the sun once a year in your personal orbit.
Let’s visit our Memory Bank and go back in time.
Think about your birthday when you were 16 years old.
Think about your birthday when you were 8 . . . 6 . . . 4.
Go back farther, to when you can’t remember your birthday.
Go back to your actual Birth Day. A miracle of a birth.
You were born.
Maybe it wasn’t a planned birth. Maybe there was some discord.
That happens.
Take a deep breath in. Hold. Let it out.
Take a few minutes to think about, to reflect, what your Birth Day meant to your parents, your grandparents, you aunts, uncles. Your family.
Write about the day you were born. You could write about the date, or the time of year, the season you were born.
You could write about what the weather was like or the facility where you were born, as you have been told or as you imagine.
Who was there, during your birth?
You can write fact, or fiction based on fact, based on stories you have heard.
Just Write.
