Writing Prompt: Today I saw . . .
You can write about what you saw today.
Start writing and see what happens.
Write freely and with no cares about the outcome. Just write!
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You have won . . . Prompt #412
You have just been notified that you have won a prize on the level of a gold medal at the Olympics, or a Grammy, or an Academy Award, or a Pulitzer Prize.
Write about a special skill you have and how you won an award for that.
Let your imagination soar. What have you won a prize for?
What is your reaction?
Write your acceptance speech.
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It’s a mystery . . . Prompt #411
Today’s writing prompt: It’s a mystery . . .
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Betrayal. Prompt #410
“A time comes when silence is betrayal.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Write about a time you were betrayed. Or a time you betrayed someone.
You could start with: I felt betrayed . . .
Or write about a time you were silent and now wish you had spoken up.
Or write about a time you could no longer remain silent.
You could start with: I want to tell you about what happened . . .
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A lie . . . Prompt #409
Write about a lie someone told you, or a lie you told.
White lies, bald-faced lies, untruths, falsehoods, fabrications, whoppers . . . whatever you call ‘em, you have experienced ‘em . . . Now write about ‘em.
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A time you felt different. Prompt #408
Prompt: Write about a time you felt different.
If you have time . . . write, using this prompt now. Or, think about a time you felt different. Pause. Take some time to remember,
“Diversity goes deep and is often handled on intellectual and political levels.” —Pat Schneider, Writing Alone and With Others.
Prompt: Generate a list of categories that make us different from one another.
Some ideas: Age – Gender – Socioeconomics – Background – Personality – Married or not – Have children or not – Parents alive or not – Lived/grew up with parents in the home – Vegetarian – Athletic – Bookworm – Seeker – Spiritual – Religious – Have tattoos – Have piercings – Hearing impaired – Race – Tall or short
Prompt: Choose a diversity and write a dialogue between two or three people.
Prompt: Write about someone being hurt as a result of being different.
Possibilities:
Write about a time you were hurt because of being different.
Write about a time you witnessed someone being hurt because of being different: Write in the first person, as you were the person being hurt. Stay in the voice of the person who was being hurt.
Write about witnessing someone being hurt and no one helped, including yourself. A time you saw someone being harassed or treated rudely or meanly and you did mothing.
“I saw this and I did nothing.”
Prompt: Write about a time you felt different.
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Pretend . . . Prompt #407
Today’s prompt: Pretend.
With this type of prompt, you can also write about the opposite . . .
Let’s not pretend.
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Use these words . . . Prompt #406
Use these words in your freewrite:
Instinct, illustration, melt, eighteenth, obligation, plunge, immune.
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Your path . . . Prompt #405
Write about a path you took, or a path you didn’t take.
Write about a choice you made.
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How do others see you? Prompt #404
What do you look like to someone who doesn’t know you?Do you react, and then act differently because of some input you received from someone?
How important is it to you how others see you?
Write from your well of deep thinking or respond how your fictional character would respond.