Category: Prompts

Write about something you have lied about.

Remember when . . .

What did you do after school?

Start writing, see where this prompt takes you.

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Writing Prompt:

Don’t tell anyone . . .

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Today’s writing prompt starts with a visualization.

Sit back. Relax.

Breathe in deeply.

Release and relax as you breathe out.

Let go.

Let your mind relax. Settle into your chair.

Nothing for you to do right now, except be here.

Nowhere for you to go.

Let your mind drift.

Go back to a time when you were little … 4 or 6 or 7 years old.

A time when the world was fresh to you.

Filled with new sights, adventures and exploring.

A time when there was magic in the air. Full of possibilities.

Take a deep breathe in and settle into your comfortable space.

No worries.

No hurries just now.

This is your time, in your special place.

Imagine or remember what your world was like when you were 4 or 6 or 7 years old.

When everyone was taller than you. Everyone seemed wiser than you.

But you knew some things.

Even at that young age, you had strong feelings about some things. 

Perhaps a pet, or a favorite toy, or a special blanket.

You had an attachment to something.

Maybe you were attached to an idea like snowing on Christmas Eve, or the perfect family, or the perfect vacation.

Take a deep breath. Feel your breath go past your lungs, past your chest, into your belly. And release.

When you are ready, write about a safe place … either a real place from your childhood, or an imaginary place.

You could also write about an item, a person or an animal that brings you comfort and joy.

Other prompts that work well with this visualization:

Back in the Day

The way I found out about . . .

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Writing Prompt:

The next thing I want to do . . .

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Today’s Writing Prompt:

What’s really on my mind . . .

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The freedom to write whatever you want.

Writing freely is like soaring with no limitations.

Freewrites can lead to:

~ Ruminating, resulting in new thoughts.

~ Discovery, leading to innovative realizations

~ Revelations, finding the “aha”

~ Exciting, uncover fresh ideas

~ Jubilations, the joy of making connections

Writing prompts can help generate writing.

There are over 800 writing prompts on The Write Spot Blog, as well as a list of places where you can submit your writing.

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Write about a place you miss.

Or a place you have strong feelings about.

Or a place you would like to be.

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Writing Prompt:  Green

“Green, the color of life, renewal, nature, and energy, is associated with meanings of growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and environment.

Green is also traditionally associated with money, finances, banking, ambition, greed, jealousy, and wall street.

The color green has healing power and is understood to be the most restful and relaxing color for the human eye to view.

Green also stands for new growth and rebirth, common in the spring season when all of the plants are coming back to life with fresh growth and life after the cold winter months.

The color green affects us physically and mentally in several different ways. Green is soothing, relaxing, and youthful.

Green is a color that helps alleviate anxiety, depression, and nervousness. Green also brings with it a sense of hope, health, adventure, and renewal, as well as self-control, compassion, and harmony.

Additional words that represent different shades, tints, and values of the color green: emerald, sea green, sea foam, olive, olive drab, pea green, grass green, apple, mint, forest, lawn green, lime, spring green, leaf green, aquamarine, beryl, chartreuse, fir, kelly green, pine, moss, jade, sage, yellow-green, sap, viridian.”—Bourncreative

More about the color green from Dr. Oz, The Good Life magazine, Aug-Sept 2014:

Green room

The waiting area where actors and TV guests lounge around before they’re needed onstage is called the green room.

Greenhorn

Because green is the shade of unripe fruit and young trees, oxen with immature horns were called greenhorns. By the 17^th century, that term was adapted to refer to inexperienced people.

Green with envy

Thank Shakespeare for helping to popularize the linking of green with jealousy. In the playwright’s tragedy Othello. envy is called “the green-eyed monster.”

Writing prompt: Green

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Song titles and song lyrics can be beneficial in producing thought-provoking writing.

Click on the link to read the lyrics or hear the song.

The currently popular “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from the movie “Encanto.”

Inspired by talking with a washroom attendant, “She Works Hard For The Money,” by Donna Summer.

“The Very Thought of You,” by Nat King Cole

“It’s Now or Never,” by Elvis Presley

“What a Wonderful World,” by Louis Armstrong

“Dancing in the Streets,” by Martha & The Vandellas

“Somewhere over the Rainbow,” by  Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole

Be inspired. Just Write!