You can write on this prompt from your point of view or from someone else’s point of view. You can also write as your fictional character would respond.
Write about an award you have received. Perhaps a certificate, a leather/letter jacket in high school, lapel pins, crowns, diplomas, trophies.
Is there an award you didn’t receive and thought you should have? Did your fictional character deserve an award and didn’t get it? How did he/she respond?
Writing Prompt: Awards
Today’s writing prompt: One year from now . .
Write whatever pops up for you. No thinking, no judging, no editor on shoulder . . . just write!
What can you write, using these words:
What is your favorite summer activity?
You can write about what you like to do now or a favorite activity when you were younger. If you are writing fiction, what does your fictional character like to do in the summer?
Writing Prompt: Favorite thing to do in the summer.
Today’s prompt is inspired by Your Mythic Journey by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox.
“We love the present tense. Be here now. Yesterday is gone and best forgotten: our tradition is to have no tradition. We aren’t Europeans buried in ancient tombs and cathedrals and medieval ruins. We were born yesterday and we will be young forever. Over thirty is over the bridge. Age embarrasses us; remembrance is a function of senility. We exile the aged to Sun City leper colonies so they won’t impair our illusion of endless summer.
But history is not so easily dismissed. Repressed memories, national or personal won’t stay down. To be alive is to have a past. Our only choice is whether we will repress or re-create the past. Childhood may be distant, but it is never quite lost; as full-gown men and women we carry tiny laughing and whimpering children around inside us. We either repress the past and continue to fight its wars with new personnel or we invite it into awareness so that we may see how it has shaped the present.
The moment you begin to tell your stories you may find that memory is a trickster who picks and chooses scenes. What happened to you in the past has yet to be determined. Ninety-nine times you tell the story of the way you were whipped for stealing apples you didn’t steal. Then in the hundredth telling, you remember that you did steal them and the whole scene changes. Your memories of what happened to you in 1953 will be different in 1975, and again in the year 2000.”
Getting ready to write
Get comfortable. Rotate your head in a circle. Now rotate the other direction. Roll your shoulders. Now the other direction. Take a deep breath in. Hold. Whoosh it out. Take deep breaths as you write.
Go back to a time when you were little… 6 or 7 or 9.
A time when the world was still fresh to you. Filled with new sights, adventures and exploring.
Think of a first time experience, whether it was the first time you sat on cool grass, or sat on Santa’s lap, or splashed in a river, or decorated a tree, sat on a warm rock, or ate watermelon, or candy.
Think of a first time experience.
What do you see?
What do you hear?
What do you smell?
How do you feel?
Prompt: Write about a first time experience.
And when you’re ready, here’s another prompt. Write whatever comes up for you.
Prompt: This is what really happened . . .
I facilitate writing workshops in Petaluma, CA called Jumpstart. We use prompts to spark our imagination. For this type of free-writing, you can respond from your personal experience or from someone else’s personal experience.
You can write as your fictional character would respond to the prompt. You can use these prompts to get deeper into your fictional character’s mind.
The idea for this prompt is inspired by the poem, “What I Like and Don’t Like,” by Philip Schultz.
Connections have always fascinated me. Our connections to one another.
Lack of connections also interests me.
Connections . . . when you meet someone for the first time and instantly feel connected.
Or when you are compelled to go somewhere and you don’t know why. Once you get there, you re-connect with someone you haven’t seen in awhile.
Connections – that “aha” moment when something becomes crystal clear.
Are connections important to you?
Connections to one another, to things, to ideas. . . what does connection mean to you?
Write about connections. Or write about disconnections.
Just write!
Use these words in a freewrite: rain, symphony, diamond, place, play, sea, true, gorgeous, swim, beauty
Post your writing on The Write Spot Blog.
Photo by Karen Bobier
You can use the prompts on The Write Spot Blog to write about your personal experiences, or experiences that others have had, or to write fiction. If you are working with a fictional character, respond to the prompt as your fictional character would. Don’t have a fictional character? Maybe now is the time to create one.
You can take actual events from your life and fictionalize them. Your fictional character could be based on an actual person, or a combination of many people.
Prompt: Take Your Fill-In-The-Blank To Work Day
Take your dog, cat, frog, aunt/ant to work day.
From the June 2015 Costco Connection: Summer is typically a time when many businesses see a drop-off in customers, so they create ways to engage customers.
Here are some specially designated days and, of course, you can write on any of these. Have fun. . . Let your imagination take over.
June 1: Flip A Coin Day
June 3: Repeat Day
June 4: Hug Your Cat Day
June 8: Best Friends Day
June 10: Iced Tea Day
June 18: National Splurge Day
June 19: Sauntering Day
June 26: Take Your Dog to Work Day
You can search the internet for all kinds of “official” days.
Just Write!
