Think about a trip you took by airplane.

Or, a car or train ride.

To a vacation spot.

A place where there were new sights and new-to-you smells.

There was excitement, maybe apprehension about going on this trip.

There were steps to take, hoops to get through and now, here you are.

Your destination spot that was planned and now a reality.

Remember walking down a street, a path, a beach.

Inhale. What do you smell?

Where did you stay? Hotel, Airbnb, a lodge, with friends.

Look around your room. Describe it as if telling a person who is blind.

Expand your vision: Describe the lobby, or the living room, or a communal room. Or the outside area.

Where did you go? What did you do?

Just Write!

What do you notice as you go about your day?

What catches your attention?

What are you obsessed with?

Try using Anaphora,  Epiphora, Symploce . . . Prompt #880 in your writing.

Just Write!

Writing Prompts: Song titles and lyrics

Pick one (or more) and Just Write!

Summertime by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward from “Porgy & Bess”

Summertime and the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’
So hush little baby, don’t you cry

(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life by Franke Previte, John Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz from “Dirty Dancing”

Now I’ve had the time of my life
No, I never felt like this before
Yes I swear it’s the truth
And I owe it all to you

Surfin’ U.S.A. by The Beach Boys

If everybody had an ocean
Across the U.S.A.
Then everybody’d be surfin’
Like Californi-a
You’d see them wearing their baggies
Huarache sandals too
A bushy bushy blond hairdo
Surfin’ U.S.A

Walking on Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves

Now I’m walkin’ on sunshine, woah-oh
I’m walkin’ on sunshine, woah-oh
I’m walkin’ on sunshine, woah-oh
And don’t it feel good?
Hey, alright now
And don’t it feel good?
Hey, yeah

Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles

Here comes the sun, doo-d-doo-doo
Here comes the sun
And I say, “It’s alright”

Summer Nights by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey from “Grease”

[DANNY]
Summer lovin’, had me a blast

[SANDY]
Summer lovin’, happened so fast

[DANNY]
I met a girl crazy for me

[SANDY]
Met a boy cute as can be

[DANNY & SANDY]
Summer days driftin’ away
To, uh oh, those summer nights

What is your why?

Why do you do what you do?

Why do you get up in the morning (besides having to go to the bathroom or let the dog or cat out).

What is your why?

Just Write!

Writing Prompt: When I was younger . . .

Write about whatever memory this brings up.

Just Write!

Quote from Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Moved to U.S. in 1980

“I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking onto that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”

Write about something you believed then found out it wasn’t true.