Prompts

How did I get here? Prompt #465

Sometimes we drive a familiar route as if in a daze. At some point we become aware that we have been driving unaware and wonder, “How did I get here?” Sometimes we’re at a job, either paid or volunteer, or we’re enmeshed in an activity, either fun or dramatic or both. Perhaps we’ve been consumed with this activity. Maybe we wake up one day and wonder, “How did I get here?” Sometimes we look around and all of a sudden we’re 40, or 50, or 60 years old, or in my case, in my early seventies. Sometimes we wonder, “How did I get here?” Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice is inspired from Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming. This journal helps “to alleviate the pressure of knowing what to write about.”  “Writing Becoming led [Michelle] Obama to see the importance of taking time for contemplation. When asked about her…

Prompts

A Perfect Moment . . . Prompt #458

Write about a perfect moment. You can write this as a scene in a play, a TV show, or a movie with scenery details. Include characters in this scene and include location (a specific room, a certain place). You can include details about the weather, time of day or evening or night, time of year, the mood of each person or the emotional feeling of the people in this scene. Or:  Just write about a perfect moment. You can write fantasy or fiction. Or you can write about what really happened. A perfect moment. Just write!