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.
Category: Prompts
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?
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.
What makes you smile? Prompt #537
What is the one thing that makes you smile every time you think about it or him/her/them? Every time you remember this, you smile. Every time.
Moving Day. Prompt #536
Moving Day. Write about a moving experience.
Windows. Prompt #535
Writing prompt: Windows. Or, more specifically: Peeking into windows. Imagine it’s Halloween Eve. Or Christmas Eve. Or New Year’s Eve. You are walking and see lights in windows. Peek into a window. What do you see?
Number Please. Prompt #534
Do you remember the phone number you grew up with? Write about a memorable conversation on that phone or a memorable conversation in the kitchen or living room or bedroom of your childhood home.
Never The Same . . . Prompt #533
Today’s prompt is inspired by a poem I wrote in response to the fires that ravaged Northern California, October 2017 and to the devastation throughout the world. The sentiments seem true today, especially “adjusting to a new normal” and the feelings of frustration, anger, and hope. October 10, 2017 by Marlene Cullen Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Santa Rosa will never be the same.Las Vegas concert goers will never be the same.Hurricane victims will never be the same.This City, That City . . . the list too long. new perspectivesnew fearsnew ways of thinking frustrated with natureangry with wrong-doersangry with bureaucracyangry in general now we know what we don’t want to knowthe unimaginable can happenthere are no guarantees what will we take awaywhat have we learnedwhat do we need we need time to processwe know the five-year droughtand the heavy rainsmade tinder that caught sparksfueled by heavy windscreating flying embers but the…