Today’s writing prompt, Trouble, is brought to us by Marcia Aldrich’s post on Brevity, “Too Vast for Words: Writing prompts for Large Subjects.” In this Brevity post, Marcia asks: Do you have a history with this word, trouble? How long has it been important to you? Why this word and not near synonyms? Is it part of a song or movie or book that matters to you? Does your sense of the word differ from what other people might think of it? If so, how? Writing Prompt: Trouble Just Write! #amwriting #justwrite #iamawriter
Category: Prompts
Sentence Starts . . . Prompt #782
Sentence starts to inspire ideas to write about: Sentence starts If my family had a motto, it would be . . . The kitchen table . . . The worst, or best, thing about my mother / father / sibling / grandparent . . . I will never forget . . . I will always remember . . . My favorite thing to do when I was 8 years old . . . 12 years old . . .14 years old . . . On Saturdays, I liked to . . . I want you to know . . . Just Write! #justwrite #iamwriting #iamawriter
Then and Now . . . Prompt #781
As we go through life, interacting with people, we learn ways of being in the world. We learn coping strategies. Sometimes we find that what used to work, no longer works. Writing Prompt Write about you then and you now. “Then” is whenever you want it to be. Write about how you used to react to people and certain situations. Write about how you now react in the same situations. Cover of “The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Connections” features Marlene’s mother ~1945 and letters from her to her mother. Connections is a collection of writing from mothers and their adult children, using story-telling as a technique to ignite imagination and to inspire writing. Connections is available from your local bookseller and as an ebook (and print) at Amazon.
Something happened, and you weren’t the same . . . Prompt #780
Use a pivotal event as a way into writing a personal essay, or a slice of your life . . . a memoir, or creative non-fiction. A pivotal event is something happened and you weren’t the same after. Obvious pivotal events are graduating from school, first job, getting married, having a baby, retiring. There are more subtle events that, at the time, you didn’t know would be a pivotal event. Those are the events that could result in a riveting essay, or give you closure. Prompt 1 Make a list of things, events, people that you carry in your mind. These are events that you can’t forget. People who haunt you. Memories that you can’t seem to let go. These are things you think about over and over, events that are on repeat in your brain. Things that happened that you can’t stop thinking about, maybe things you lose sleep…
Movies! . . . Prompt #779
Movies! What movie made you laugh more than any other? Your all-time favorite movie. Why? Write about a movie that deeply touched you. Write about a movie you saw as a teenager. What movie do you remember seeing as a child? What makes these movies memorable?
Woulda, coulda, shoulda . . . Prompt #778
Woulda, coulda, shoulda . . . If I had . . . then . . . Or, the opposite: If I hadn’t . . . then . . . #justwrite #amwriting #iamawriter
Something no one knows about . . . Prompt #777
Writing Prompt: Write about something no one knows about you. “The Write Spot: Memories” available from your local bookseller and as print and ebook from Amazon. Just Write! #amwriting #justwrite #iamawriter
Bold Step . . . Prompt #776
Write about a bold step you took or are taking. #justwrite #amwriting #iamawriter
Role Model . . . Prompt #775
Do you have a role model? Write about a person who inspired you, encouraged you, didn’t ask for anything back in return. Someone who enhanced your life. Or: Write about someone you mentored or were/are a role model for. Photo of my role model: My paternal grandmother showing my sister and niece how to make noodles circa 1974.
What? . . . Prompt #774
What door do you need to walk through, but don’t want to? What is nagging at you? What do you really want to do? #justwrite #iamawriter #iamwriting