Category: Prompts

  • April . . . Prompt #724

    white blue and purple stars illustration
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    April 1, 2023.

    April Fool’s Day.

    April: In like a whimper?

    Or, in like a bang?

    How was your April?

    Amusing? Charming? Frustrating?

    Anything new or unusual  happen?

    What did you like about this month of April?

    What didn’t you like?

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  • Someone Who Helped You . . . Prompt #723

    Write about someone who has helped you.

    Or maybe it was Some Thing that has helped you.

    Write about someone or something that has helped you.

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  • A Walk . . . Prompt #722

    Write about a walk you took.

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  • A Visit to a Museum . . . Prompt #721

    white red and blue museum on green grass
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    Write about a visit to a museum.

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  • A Day In Your Life . . . Prompt #720

    Write about a day in your life.

    It could be about a miserable day.

    Or a spectacularly wonderful day.

    Or an ordinary day.

    Prompt: A day in your life.

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  • Someone who . . . Prompt #719

    Write about someone who . . .

    You would like to have a meal with.

    You want to have a do-over with.

    You have a question for.

    What is the question and why do you want to know the answer?

  • Connections . . . Prompt 718

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

    Why should you?

    Why don’t you?

  • Discoveries and Inventions . . . Prompt #717

    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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  • Trompe L’oeil . . . Prompt #716

    Art by David Zinn

    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 FacebookInstagram, 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.

  • Grasping . . . Prompt #715

    Writing Prompt: I keep grasping for . . .

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