Write about reaching for the stars.

   Write about what money can’t buy.

I like the sound of . . .

Write about the sounds you like.

Or, write about sounds you don’t like.

Write about how different your life . . . or your fictional character’s life would be . .  . if that one thing didn’t happen.

When you were a child, did you get an allowance? How much? What did you do with it?

If you didn’t get an allowance, how do you feel about that?

What time period, or era, do you identify with?

Write what your life would be like if you lived then.

About the photo: This is a photo of my mother in her tap dance costume, taken in 1945. Those are envelopes and letters she wrote to her mother, circa 1943. The rest of the items are explained in the recently released The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Connections. Available at Amazon.

Photo taken by Breana Marie.

Writing is playing with words and ideas. Writing is rewriting. Sometimes writing is . . . just writing.

Today’s writing prompts are about looking at stories through a different lens or from another point of view.

Rewrite a fairy tale. Change character details, change where story takes place, change the outcome. Reframe the bad guy into a good guy. Give the protagonist electrifying faults.

Or rewrite a folk tale. Switch characters, revolve story around a different moral compass, set the scene in the future.

Or reframe a family story. Write a familiar family story from a different point of view.

Just Write!

Photo by Christina Gleason

Write about a colorful character using similes and metaphors.

Simile – a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often using like or as, as in “eyes like stars.”

Metaphor – A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another; thus making an implicit comparison, as in the evening of life.

Metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their writing more interesting or entertaining.

Unlike similes that use the words “as” or “like” to make a comparison, metaphors state that something is something else.

 Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.

We would have had more pizza to eat if Tammy hadn’t been such a hog.

 Cindy was such a mule. We couldn’t get her to change her mind.

The poor rat didn’t have a chance. Our old cat, a bolt of lightning, caught his prey.

Even a child could carry my dog, Dogface, around for hours. He’s such a feather.

—English Basics, Volume 3, Number 26, March 29, 1999, www.rhlschool.com

Today’s prompt:

I never planned to  . . .