What responsibilities did you have as a child?
What was required of you from the adults in your life?
What responsibilities do you carry over from your childhood?
What responsibilities do you want to give up?
You are free to write whatever you want, using these prompts to spark ideas.
As a child, did you get an allowance?
If yes, how much? What did you spend it on?
If you didn’t receive an allowance, what did you do for spending money?
If you didn’t receive spending money, do you wish you had? What would you have spent it on?
If you could change anything in the world, it would be . . .
Or . . .
The time I felt most changed in a single second was when . . .
Use one or both writing prompts. Just write!
Prompts are inspired from Write Free – attracting the creative life, revised second edition by Rebecca Lawton and Jordan Rosenfeld.
Today’s writing prompt:
It’s a miracle . . .
Write whatever comes up.
Write whatever pops into your head.
Don’t judge. Don’t edit. Don’t be critical.
Just write!
It’s a miracle . . .
Write about your childhood dream.
Is your childhood dream still calling you?
Who?
Where?
When?
Why?
Just write!
Sometimes we drive a familiar route as if in a daze. At some point we become aware that we have been driving unaware and wonder, “How did I get here?”
Sometimes we’re at a job, either paid or volunteer, or we’re enmeshed in an activity, either fun or dramatic or both. Perhaps we’ve been consumed with this activity. Maybe we wake up one day and wonder, “How did I get here?”
Sometimes we look around and all of a sudden we’re 40, or 50, or 60 years old, or in my case, in my early seventies. Sometimes we wonder, “How did I get here?”
Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice is inspired from Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming.
This journal helps “to alleviate the pressure of knowing what to write about.”
“Writing Becoming led [Michelle] Obama to see the importance of taking time for contemplation. When asked about her writing process, she explains, ‘I spent a lot of time just reflecting and thinking, which is something I just didn’t have much time to do for about a decade. It was nice to decompress a little bit and ask myself, ‘How did I get here? Where did my story take a turn? I uncovered a lot of smaller moments . . . [that] were really foundational to the woman I became.’” —Paul Anderson, December 2019 Costco Connection
Note from Marlene: If you need help in figuring out what to write about, or ideas about writing on difficult things without feeling re-traumatized, take a look at the prompts on The Write Spot Blog, especially “How to write without adding trauma.”
Today’s Prompt: How did I get here?
Write about someone or something you have loved.
Suppose you had a magic red phone booth that allows you to go back in time and change one thing, what would you change?
Or, write about red phone booths.