{"id":12827,"date":"2023-09-22T11:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12827"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:39:05","slug":"birth-day-prompt-749","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/birth-day-prompt-749\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Day . . . Prompt #749"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Remember self-care <\/a>when writing about difficult topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get up, walk around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a sip of water or herbal tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose something in your surroundings to look at when the writing gets difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at that focal point as a reminder to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a deep breath in. Hold. And release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a few more calming breaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write this in your notebook or on a piece of paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I really want to say . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t remember . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are stuck with writing, you can use one of these phrases and go from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing Prompt:<\/strong> Birth Day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about your Birth Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you had many birthday parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you had a handful of parties, or one or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe your Birth Day is a big deal and you wildly celebrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, maybe you are the quiet type, preferring not to call attention to yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you think of your Birth Day as \u201cjust another day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you celebrate or not, you travel around the sun once a year in your personal orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s visit our Memory Bank and go back in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about your birthday when you were 16 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about your birthday when you were 8 . . . 6 . . . 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go back farther, to when you can\u2019t remember your birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go back to your actual Birth Day. A miracle of a birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it wasn\u2019t a planned birth. Maybe there was some discord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a deep breath in. Hold. Let it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a few minutes to think about, to reflect, what your Birth Day meant to your parents, your grandparents, you aunts, uncles. Your family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write about the day you were born. You could write about the date, or the time of year, the season you were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could write about what the weather was like or the facility where you were born, as you have been told or as you imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who was there, during your birth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can write fact, or fiction based on fact, based on stories you have heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just Write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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