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!
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Perfect Day . . . Prompt #164
Write about a perfect day. Photo by Kent Sorensen
Random Words #163
Use these words in a freewrite: elaborate, bitter, cool, leave, mist, arm, moon, bare, peach, vision Post your writing on The Write Spot Blog.
Hands. Prompt #162
Today’s Writing Prompt: Hands
Tweak, form, shape and sculpt . . . Prompt #161
Choose one topic from below, these are prompts that have recently been posted here on the Write Spot Blog: Prompt #158: If pets could talk Prompt #159: Unforgettable Also Prompt #159: Strange But True Prompt #160: Only in America Also Prompt #160: Happy Endings Today’s writing prompt: After you have written a freewrite (from above list), write one line for every four sentences from that freewrite. Take out all unnecessary words. Condense or distill your writing to the most important aspects. Tweak, form, shape and sculpt until you have a poem. Then . . . Submit to The Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest. No fee to enter. You don’t have to be a resident of Lincoln to submit. Send by July 25, 2o14 Go for it!
What is a freewrite and what is a writing prompt?
So. . . what is all this talk about freewrites and writing prompts? What does it all mean? A freewrite is a style of writing that is . . . well. . . freeing. The writer hears or reads a word, or a phrase, and just starts writing. Often a timer is set, so there is the “under the gun” feel of a deadline, a limited time to write. Click here for more information about freewrites. I post writing prompts writing prompts, on The Write Spot Blog. Sometimes the writing prompts are fun and playful. Sometimes they inspire memoir type writing. Other times they work well for fiction writing. Mostly the prompts are what you make of them. . . you can go light and stay on the surface, skating on the edge, or you can go deep. This type of writing is an opportunity to explore and perhaps come…
Broken . . . Prompt #156
Broken . . . Today’s Writing Prompt: Broken
The Language of Your Childhood is Poetry. Prompt #155
April is Poetry Month. Let’s talk about poetry. The following is inspired from a workshop with Pat Schneider. Poetry is about music of language and comes in all forms: Music, nursery rhymes, hymns, jump rope rhymes. Look in anthologies for different kinds of poetry, different styles, different authors as poets. Guess what . . . You don’t have to like all poetry. Think about the language of your childhood. Imagine sitting around your kitchen table, or the living room couch or sofa . . . depending on where you grew up, you might call this item of furniture ” the davenport.” Remember your family’s way of talking. Hear poetry in music that was spoken around the kitchen table. Remember the language of your childhood. When writing poetry, don’t strain the language. Use normal words. Fall into the poetic playground. One way to write poetry: Take the melody from a song…
My heart hurts. . . Prompt #147
Today’s writing prompt is inspired by my dear friend, Eva. You can always write on variations of these writing prompts. For example: My heart hurts when . . . I want to tell you about the time my heart broke . . . The phrase “full of heart” means . . . Write from your personal experience, or write fiction. Just write! Photo by Jeff Cullen. Click here to see Jeff’s portfolio on fotolia.
A route you have taken, or wish you had taken. Prompt #145
Write about a route you have taken, or wish you had taken.