Today’s prompt: Pretend. With this type of prompt, you can also write about the opposite . . . Let’s not pretend.
Tag: just write
Use these words . . . Prompt #406
Use these words in your freewrite: Instinct, illustration, melt, eighteenth, obligation, plunge, immune.
Your path . . . Prompt #405
Write about a path you took, or a path you didn’t take. Write about a choice you made.
Someone you were drawn to. Prompt #402
Write about a person you were drawn to. It could be a real person or a fictional character.
This happened . . . Prompt #402
Today’s prompt is inspired by a talk Ianthe Brautigan gave on March 5, 2001. Memoir is a journey. Just because it’s your life, don’t think you know the end. A beeper could go off and change everything. Life is like a box of chocolates . . . you don’t know what you got until you bite into it. Sometimes your life makes sense after you write and digest your findings. Ianthe suggests writing a memoir in an unusual way, not “this happened and then that happened.” To start: Write excerpts from your past. Write your stories. Don’t worry about where they will go. Tell your story as if sitting around a campfire. If you need inspiration: Make a collage from magazine articles/photos about what you want to write about. Look at these when you need a nudge to write. Once you start writing, let go of how you should write….
Why write your story?
Why write your story? So you can move on. Today’s post is inspired by Patricia Hampl’s book, “I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourn in the Land of Memory.” Tell your story so you can move on. “When a writer keeps things inside, it becomes a ball of tangled yarn. As each story is told, the ball becomes untangled. Writing from memory can help us to let go of those stories we tell over and over again. We may not even need to tell them again [after writing about them].” Note from Marlene: I think writing from memory can also be a type of self-help . . . a vehicle for transporting oneself back in time and getting in touch with what really happened. Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of…
Your Inner Critic. . . Prompt #400
Your inner critic. How do you handle or quiet your inner critic? How do you tame your inner critic? Give your inner critic a make-over.
Worst habit . . . Prompt #399
Write about your worst habit. No thinking! Just write.
Nicknames . . . Prompt #398
Write about nicknames. Did you have a nickname growing up? If yes, did you like it? If not, what nickname would give yourself as a child? What nickname would you give yourself now? Write about nicknames.
Best or worst advice . . . Prompt #397
Best or worst advice you have ever heard or given. Just write!