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What isn’t working in your life? What is working? What are you resisting? What needs to change? What really matters? What do you want? Ready? Set. Go! Just write!

Sometimes writing prompts are complex: Physical location and action to describe emotional state – Prompt #12 And: Location, or place as a character – Prompt #8 And: Imagine you are invited. . . Prompt #64 Sometimes writing prompts are simple, like today’s writing prompt: Yesterday . . . Don’t over think. Just write! Prompt: Yesterday . . .

The last Just Write post talked about writing a messy first draft. Ready to start that messy project? Or continue with something you are working on. Here is a writing prompts to start the messy project: Writing Prompt: Imagine you (or your fictional character) received a greeting card in the mail. It can be from someone you know or a character you create. It can be from a celebrity. It can be sent to the wrong address. What does the card say? How does the narrator react when reading the card? What happens next? Just Write!

Strangers do it. Neighbors do it. Friends do it. We all do it. Talk about the weather. Now, write about it. Write about how weather affects you. What is your favorite type of weather? Does weather play a small or large role in your life? How? Why? Write about weather. Me? I like rain, as long as I don’t have to be out in it. Photo: View from my front porch on a lovely rainy day.

In “The Art of Fiction,” John Gardener describes “the fictional dream.” This is when the author has described a scene so viscerally, the reader can see, feel, hear, taste, or smell what’s going on in the scene. Sensory detail is important in writing, but how to achieve it? Practice! Try this: Study an object for ten minutes. It can be something you are wearing, an item on your desk or on a kitchen shelf. It can be something you use every day or a special item put away to keep it safe. You can describe the glass flower decoration above. Notice the details of the object — the shape and texture. Explore the pieces that make up the whole. Hold or touch the item. Notice the texture, the heft. How does it feel? Does it have a smell? Look at the object from all angles. After ten minutes, write a…

Balance is a tricky act. Like a pie crust, balance is sometimes tender and light, and sometimes fails. Sometimes we find balance. Then we totter. Then we regain balance. And totter again. And find balance once more. Write about finding balance. You can use any of these phrases for your writing prompt or use the image. Isn’t this a beautiful pie crust topping? Not something I made. But something I would enjoy eating!

When the flame flickers and goes out, sometimes the simplest thing is to let it go, other times just re-light it. You know what to do with these writing prompts, right? Don’t overthink them. Just write! Freewrites can open doors to discoveries.

Choose a phrase and write whatever comes up for you: You can’t move forward from a stuck place. Let go of perceptions. Acceptance. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. What matters? Learn to let go.