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The next thing I want to do . . .
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Category: Prompts
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On My Mind . . . Prompt #640
Today’s Writing Prompt:
What’s really on my mind . . .
Just Write!~
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The Freedom of Freewrites
The freedom to write whatever you want.
Writing freely is like soaring with no limitations.
Freewrites can lead to:
~ Ruminating, resulting in new thoughts.
~ Discovery, leading to innovative realizations
~ Revelations, finding the “aha”
~ Exciting, uncover fresh ideas
~ Jubilations, the joy of making connections
Writing prompts can help generate writing.
There are over 800 writing prompts on The Write Spot Blog, as well as a list of places where you can submit your writing.
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A place you miss. Prompt #639
Image by Brigette Bruns Nobel Write about a place you miss.
Or a place you have strong feelings about.
Or a place you would like to be.
Just Write!
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Green . . . Prompt #638
Writing Prompt: Green
“Green, the color of life, renewal, nature, and energy, is associated with meanings of growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and environment.
Green is also traditionally associated with money, finances, banking, ambition, greed, jealousy, and wall street.
The color green has healing power and is understood to be the most restful and relaxing color for the human eye to view.
Green also stands for new growth and rebirth, common in the spring season when all of the plants are coming back to life with fresh growth and life after the cold winter months.
The color green affects us physically and mentally in several different ways. Green is soothing, relaxing, and youthful.
Green is a color that helps alleviate anxiety, depression, and nervousness. Green also brings with it a sense of hope, health, adventure, and renewal, as well as self-control, compassion, and harmony.
Additional words that represent different shades, tints, and values of the color green: emerald, sea green, sea foam, olive, olive drab, pea green, grass green, apple, mint, forest, lawn green, lime, spring green, leaf green, aquamarine, beryl, chartreuse, fir, kelly green, pine, moss, jade, sage, yellow-green, sap, viridian.”—Bourncreative
More about the color green from Dr. Oz, The Good Life magazine, Aug-Sept 2014:
Green room
The waiting area where actors and TV guests lounge around before they’re needed onstage is called the green room.
Greenhorn
Because green is the shade of unripe fruit and young trees, oxen with immature horns were called greenhorns. By the 17th century, that term was adapted to refer to inexperienced people.
Green with envy
Thank Shakespeare for helping to popularize the linking of green with jealousy. In the playwright’s tragedy Othello. envy is called “the green-eyed monster.”
Writing prompt: Green
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Songs . . . Prompt #637
Song titles and song lyrics can be beneficial in producing thought-provoking writing.
Click on the link to read the lyrics or hear the song.
The currently popular “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” from the movie “Encanto.”
Inspired by talking with a washroom attendant, “She Works Hard For The Money,” by Donna Summer.
“The Very Thought of You,” by Nat King Cole
“It’s Now or Never,” by Elvis Presley
“What a Wonderful World,” by Louis Armstrong
“Dancing in the Streets,” by Martha & The Vandellas
“Somewhere over the Rainbow,” by Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole
Be inspired. Just Write!
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What nourishes you? Prompt #636
Prompt: What nourishes you? Write for 15 minutes. Use sensory details: sight, smell & sound.
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Next: Picture the kitchen in the house you grew up in. See the table and chairs, the counter, the cupboards.
Open a cupboard . . . or walk into the pantry. Take a look around. Open the spice cabinet. Breathe deeply.
Prompt: What food reminds you of the kitchen in the house where you grew up in? Memories surrounding that food?
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Prompt: Take a few words from previous two freewrites and expand, or describe, using smell and sound. For example, from “The Martian Chronicles by” Ray Bradbury:
“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight . . . What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like, it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theatre one hundred billion faces falling like those New Year balloons down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded.”
Use sensory detail: Smell
What does rain on asphalt smell like?
What does a crunchy red apple smell like?
Mentally walk through an apple or a pear orchard where the earth has recently been plowed. Describe that earthy smell.
What does a redwood forest smell like, deep in the grove where it’s quiet?
It might smell old or ancient and calm. What does old, ancient, and calm smell like?
old . . . smells like parchment paper
ancient . . . smells like musty book
calm . . . smells like summer rain candle
Use sensory detail: Sound
What does old, ancient, calm sound like?
old sounds like coughing and wheezing
ancient sounds like rattling breath
calm sounds like church . . . sitting in an old Catholic church in the middle of the afternoon with no else there. That’s calm.
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Memory Lane . . . Prompt #635
Today’s Writing Prompt has four parts.
Part 1
Imagine you are going on a trip. Cost is no object. You can go anywhere and take anything you want.
Spend a few minutes writing what you would take.
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Part 2
Mentally add safety items to your suitcase, or duffle bag, or backpack. You might have already packed some of these things.
Medical supplies, bandages, antiseptic.
Flares, flashlight.
Things to protect you: sunscreen, a soft pillow for a cushioned landing in case you fall, a safety net to catch you.
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Part 3
Go on a trip down Memory Lane.
Choose a time in your life when something deeply affected you or was troubling.
Write about a difficult time, a pivotal moment, when something happened and you were not the same after.
If you experience a strong reaction while you are writing, stop writing. Shake out your hands, or look up, take some deep breaths. Look out a window.
Remind your body that you are safe at this time.
Write about a difficult time, a pivotal moment, when something happened and you were not the same after.
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Part 4
Travel back in time, again. This time, go to a lovely moment. A time of peace and calm. Who was with you? Or, were you alone?
Describe the scene, like you would see it unfold in a play. What do you see? What do you smell? What do you hear? Use sensory detail as you write about this memory.
Bring in smells if you can . . . clean laundry, sheets dried outside on a clothesline, a shirt being ironed, fresh lemons, strawberries. The smell of the ocean, diesel fuel. Freshly mowed lawn.
Bring in sound: The iron hissing on the shirt, the bang of the screen door, the clang of a bell. Waves washing ashore. Bicycle tires crunching on gravel. The crunch of autumn leaves as you walk on them.
Write about a special time that makes you smile every time you remember this moment, perhaps a time when you felt at peace.
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Sad about missing . . . Prompt #634
I am most sad about having missed (in recent months, weeks, days) is . . .
I’m looking forward to . . .
For that to happen, this will have to happen . . .
I believe . . .
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Right now . . . Prompt #633
What’s happening for you right now?
Be in the moment.
Write about whatever is on your mind.
Write what your heart wants to say.