Category: Prompts

Before writing:  Stretch. Get comfortable in your chair. Take some deep breaths in and release. When you are ready: Prompt #1      Making lists List 3 things you don’t want to write about. Just a list. List 3 things that happened a long time ago that you are still angry, resentful or hold a grudge about. Just a list. List 3 things that happened this past week that made you mad. Just a list. Prompt #2 Write:  Choose one of those experiences. Write about it. Be as detailed and as explicit as you can. When did it happen?  Day of week? Time of day? Where did it happen? Who was involved? What were you wearing?    Remember to look up and breathe if the writing is difficult. Write for 15-20 minutes. When you are finished with this writing, shake out your hands. Breathe. Intro to Prompt #3 You can use writing…

Regrets: We all have them. There are four parts to this writing prompt. You can do all four at once. Or, take breaks. Write on one prompt at a time. Take care of yourself while writing: Look up. Walk around. Look out a window. Take some deep breaths. Part 1:  Write about a regret you have. Something you did or something happened that you wish hadn’t happened. Write what happened as if you were a journalist. This happened. Then that happened. Write for 20 minutes. Part 2:  Write about the emotions surrounding that experience. Remember: Take care while writing. Part 3.  What are you resisting writing about? Take a deep breath. Capture whatever you can about what happened. Put your thoughts and feelings into words. Part 4.  Let go.  Notice what you are feeling. Allow your feelings to be. Deep breath in. Let it out. Release. Turn your attention to…

Today’s Writing Prompt: Hope #justwrite #iamwriting #iamawriter

If you had a Time Machine, what day, what month, what year would you like to travel to? Why that time?Who do you want to be there with?

If you had a working teleportation device, where would you go?Why? What would you do there? #justwrite #iamawriter #iamwriting

Today’s Writing Prompt: Carousel

“Boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails. Girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice.” What are you made of? What do you think of this saying?

Photo by Elviss Railijs Bitāns Write about using public transportation, or private:   A bus, a train, a plane, subway, a boat, a ship, a rickshaw, a bicycle, Lyft, Uber, taxi cab, etc. #just write #amwriting #iamawriter

Are you, or is your fictional character, an introvert or an extrovert? Do you know the difference? It has been explained to me this way: An extrovert is energized being in a crowd. An introvert is drained of energy being in a crowd. What is your definition of introvert and extrovert? Write what it’s like being an introvert in an extrovert world. Or, what is it like being an extrovert? Are the people you spend time with mostly extroverts or introverts? How does that work for you?

Write about your favorite job . . . paid or volunteer. Or: Your first job or first volunteer work Or: Write about a job you would never want to do.