Category: Prompts

Write about someone you could or should connect with, but you just can’t.

Why should you?

Why don’t you?

It seems there is a new-fangled contraption invented almost daily.

Imagine . . .  before there were cars, printing machines, and cell phones . . . when these were new . . .

Horseless carriage . . . Motor wagon . . . Model T

Printing Press . . . Manual typewriter, Electric typewriter

Tin can telephone . . . Telegraph . . . Rotary phone with curly wire attached to a wall, Princess Phone

Electricity, hot and cold water from a faucet.

Imagine what our parents, grandparents, ancestors thought of these.

Will you engage in the next innovation?

Imagine what the next invention will be.

Just Write!

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Writing Prompt: Trompe l’oeil

Trompe l’oeil is a French phrase that means “deceive the eye.”

It’s used to describe a style of painting that uses shading and perspective to make a two-dimensional painting appear to be three-dimensional. Wikipedia

From Webster’s Dictionary:

1. A style of painting in which objects are depicted with photographically realistic detail.

2. Something that misleads or deceives the senses, illusion.

Examples of trompe l’oeil: Creative Blog

Write about: Trompe l’oeil.

Artist David Zinn has been creating original artwork in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan since 1987. For more than twenty years, he freelanced for a wide variety of commercial clients while simultaneously sneaking “pointless” art into the world at large.

His professional commissions included theatrical posters, business logos, educational cartoons, landfill murals, environmental superheroes, corporate allegories and hand-painted dump trucks, and his less practical creations involved bar coasters, restaurant placemats, cake icing, and snow.

Now, thanks to the temptations of a box of sidewalk chalk on an unusually sunny day, Mr. Zinn is known all over the world for the art he creates under his feet. David’s temporary street drawings are composed entirely of chalk, charcoal and found objects, and are always improvised on location through a process known as pareidolic anamorphosis or anamorphic pareidolia.

Most of Zinn’s creatures appear on sidewalks in Michigan, but many have surfaced as far away as subway platforms in Manhattan, village squares in Sweden and street corners in Taiwan. He has achieved global notoriety through sharing on the pages of Facebook, Instagram, Huffington Post, Graffiti Art Magazine, Bored Panda, Central China Television, Street Art Utopia, and Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome.

His most frequent characters are Sluggo (a bright green monster with stalk eyes and irreverent habits) and Philomena (a phlegmatic flying pig), but the diversity of Mr. Zinn’s menagerie seems to be limited only by the size of the sidewalk and the spirit of the day.

Writing Prompt: I keep grasping for . . .

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Write about someone who touches you, someone you open yourself up to, allowing you to be you.

Perhaps this is someone who makes you laugh.

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Song Titles – In Memory of Burt Bacharach

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head

What’s New, Pussycat?

Do You Know The Way to San Jose?

What The World Needs Now Is Love

Just Write!

Write about any suitcase or a particular suitcase.

Or a satchel, or a carryall.

Where has it been?
Where would it like to go?
Who, or what, does it want for a companion?

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What were your mornings like as a child?

Did you wake up with an alarm clock?

Did Mom or Dad or someone else wake you?

Then what happened?