“Resilience is the ability to scrape yourself off the floor relatively quickly after a giant trauma, medium-size setback or everyday disappointment. Resilience is a set of coping mechanisms we develop over time. This quality is determined by how we take care of ourselves, the people we surround ourselves with and what we do to find meaning and purpose in our lives.” — “How to Bounce Back From Anything,” by Elaine Chin, M.D. and William Howatt, PH.D, Good Housekeeping magazine, July 2018 Writing Prompts How do you define resiliency? What are your coping mechanisms? What do you do to take care of yourself? Is there someone in your life who hinders your ability to be resilient? Write about the times you have been resilient. #justwrite #iamwriting #iamawriter
Category: Prompts
You Think You Know Me . . . Prompt #663
Writing prompts inspired by the June 5, 2022 interview with Kevin Powell and Dr. Adrian Arancibia. Prompt #1: You think you know me, but you don’t know . . . Prompt #2: Same as first prompt, but this time write in your parent’s voice, or from your parent’s perspective, Or: Write from the point of view of Someone Important in your life. Write as if your mother or father or Important Person were writing, “You think you know me, but what you don’t know . . . #justwrite #iamwriting #iamawriter
The next chance I get . . . Prompt #662
Writing Prompt The next chance I get . . . #justwrite #amwriting #iamawriter
What fascinates you? Prompt #661
Write about what fascinates you, or what you are obsessed with. #justwrite #amwriting #iamawriter #freewrites
I’m not sure . . . Prompt #660
Use any of these sentence starts to inspire writing: I’m not sure if . . . I’m not sure about . . . I’m not sure when . . . I’m not sure why . . . I’m not sure how . . . I’m just not sure. #justwrite #amwriting #iamawriter
Never would I ever . . . Prompt #659
Writing Prompt: Never would I ever . . . #iamwriting #iamawriter #justwrite
Perspective . . . Prompt #658
I like the idea of looking at familair things with a new perspective. This writing idea is from Kathryn Petruccelli: Look at something in your environment, perhaps something you’ve seen many times before, that you think you know well. It could be a piece of art hanging in your house, or a plant on your windowsill. Get close and look again. Re-see it. After you’ve spent some time with it, create a list of metaphors—things it looks like, or reminds you of. Don’t be too attached to logic, be free with your associations. Maybe the comparisons will get wild as you go along. At some point, break the pattern of the list and slow things down by going deeper into description for one metaphor (extend it and explain it in more detail), or by making a statement—a simple subject-verb sentence—that reflects on or summarizes what you’ve said so far. Note…
I never thought . . . Prompt #657
Today’s Writing Prompt: I never thought . . . #iamawrite #justwrite #iamwriting
Tall Tales or Truth . . . Prompt #656
Write about yourself or about one (or more) of your fictional characters. You can write the truth or embellish a tall tale. “Your” is you or one of your fictional characters. Some writing starts: Describe your career / job. If you are retired, what did you do before retirement? If you could start over, what type of work do you wish you had pursued? Hobbies? What do you do in your spare time? If you don’t have spare time, what would you do if you had spare time? What do you like to do? Something very few people know about you. Something that is not true about you. Best vacation. Children. Grandchildren. Where did you grow up? Where do you live? What are you especially good at? What do you want people to know about you? #justwrite #iamawriter #iamwriting
Food or Art? Prompt #654
Sometimes I get an idea for a writing prompt and then search for an image to go with the prompt. The phrase “food or art” popped into my head one day. It took a while, but I found an image. So, what do you think . . . food or art? Or, food as art? Just Write! #justwrite #iamawriter #iamwriting