Write about a favorite area:
in your home
in your workplace
in your town
Or your favorite place on earth.
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Space . . . Prompt #834
Write about a space you have been in:
Library, cathedral, top of mountain, a castle, Grand Canyon, Grand Central station, Emporium, head spaces.
A tight space, a small space, a crawl space, outer space.
Just Write!
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What do you want to let go of? . . . Prompt #833
What do you want to let go of?
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Now vs then . . . Prompt #832
What did you do in your twenties that you can’t, or won’t, do now?
What can you do now that you couldn’t do in your twenties?
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Success. Now vs then . . . Prompt #831
Now vs then
What did success mean to you when you were in your twenties?
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Spring Cleaning . . . Prompt #829
Photo by Svetlana Afonina on Pexels.com Spring Cleaning time is here – will you be doing any cleaning?
How about cleaning up more than your living space?
Relationships?
Goals?
Write about Spring Cleaning.
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Write What Is True
“Don’t write what sounds clever, write what’s true.” —Ethan Canin
Excerpted from “Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld Thinks Middle Age is Underrated,” by Lane Florsheim, The Wall Street Journal, March 1-2, 2025
Sittenfeld continued with, “That’s good advice for writing, but it’s also good advice for how to be a person. It can be hard to be sincere, but I think you have a much greater chance of connection with others if you are.”
Note From Marlene: You know what I say . . . Just Write!
But, what if you can’t remember what’s true?
“Write as honestly as you can about whatever it is.” Abigail Thomas
“Perhaps” is another blog post that might help when you can’t quite remember exactly what happened.
You know what to do . . .Just Write!
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Break-up Letter . . . Prompt #828
Writing Prompt: Write a break-up letter to something, or someone who brings tension into your life.
Prompt from Rebecca Evans and Gayle Brandeis, Musings & Movement Workshop.
Rebecca will be the Writers Forum Presenter on April 15 and April 22.
Free on Zoom
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Pacific
Topic: Crafting Flash in Creative Nonfiction
“Unlock your superpower through conveying deep truths and universal human emotions in just a few short paragraphs.”
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Contranyms . . . Prompt #826
A contranym is a word with two opposite meanings.
Or: Two meanings that contradict one another.
Use contranyms in your writing.
Bill: payment or an invoice
Bolt: leave quickly or fix/immobilize
Bound: confined/tied or going
Buckle: connect or break or collapse
Cleave: cling or split apart
Clip: attach or cut off
Dust: clean something or dust with powdered sugar
Fast: move rapidly or fixed in place
Finished: completed or destroyed
Hold up: support or impede
Left: gone or remaining
Original: authentic/traditional or novel never done before
Overlook: supervise or failing to oversee
Peer: person of nobility or an equal
Presently: now or soon
Put out: extinguish or generate
Sanction: approve or penalize
Table: discuss a topic or postpone discussion
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