Imagine you, or your fictional character, are six years old. It’s time to sit on Santa’s lap. What happens? Or, what doesn’t happen?
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The oldest item you own. Prompt #544
Write about the oldest thing you own.
Back in the day. Prompt #543
Back in the day we called the December-January school break: Christmas Break. We called Columbus Day: Columbus Day. We didn’t care about calories, especially on Thanksgiving and for holiday meals. We played outside with kids in our neighborhood. We “scrolled” through comic books. We danced to music from jukeboxes. Writing Prompt: Back in the day.
What do you need? Prompt #542
What do you need? Right now. What do you need? Other prompts relating to need: What do you need to hear? Lin Manuel Miranda pondered this question and the result is surprising. Want vs need. Discovering wants versus needs.
Help Your Creativity Blossom
Guest Blogger Suzanne Murray shares why freewrites inspire writing: I have taught the creative writing process for more than twenty years, working in part with a technique known as “freewriting” where I encourage participants to “just let it rip”. We don’t worry about punctuation, spelling, grammar or whether it is good. We suspend the censor and let our first thoughts spill out onto the page. People new to the class are always nervous about this kind of letting go. Since I write and share my own raw writing with the group, I was rather nervous when I first started teaching the classes but found that by maintaining a safe and sacred atmosphere of unconditional acceptance for whatever wanted to come forth it really calmed the fear for everyone. We learn quite early to fear making mistakes. We all have a well-developed censor that confines us within the limiting parameters of…
Always . . . Prompt #541
I will always have . . .
Control? Let go! Prompt #540
What can you control? What can you let go of?
Share a meal. Prompt #539
If you could invite anyone to share a meal with, dead or alive, who would you invite and why?
Transport readers
“Your main job as a writer is to transport the reader to a fictional world, as in a dream. ” — “The Geyser Approach to Revision,” James Scott Bell, July/August 2011 Writer’s Digest Magazine You probably know this, but perhaps you’re stuck with knowing how to achieve that. A big part is the revision process. The following steps for revision are based on the Writer’s Digest article. Write Hot. Revise cool. Wait two weeks after writing to begin the revision process. Then, read fast as if you were a first-time reader. Take notes about what needs fixing. Capture original emotions you felt when writing. Listen to music that evokes the mood of your story. “Music reaches a part of your mind that you usually have inactive when analyzing. Wake it up and put it to work with tunes.” Create a collage to capture a visual representation of your work to…
Learn a foreign language. Prompt #538
If you, or your fictional character, could learn a foreign language, what would it be and why? Or: Write about your experience with learning another language.