Write about something you will always have.
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Your passion for writing. Prompt #234
It’s palpable. I see it. I feel your passion for writing. I know the feeling. . .You want to write, but you aren’t writing.
Because . . . first, you have to do this Thing and that Thing needs to get done and this other Thing just can’t wait.
I know how it goes. I know you really do want to write.
And I wonder, if writing means so much to you, why aren’t you writing? Why do you ignore your passion?
Let’s take a look at this. Whenever I have something I want to explore, I do a freewrite.
Use the following questions as “writing starts.”
Start each paragraph with a question. Then write. Just write.
What do I want to do in my writing life?
What do I want to accomplish?
What is stopping me from doing what I want to do, whether it’s writing or something else?
What can I do to make my dream come true?
What changes do I need to make?
I’m pretty happy with my writing life. This is how I make time to write.
Share your discoveries with us, especially how you make time to write. Almost every writer I know would benefit from your answers. Post your writing on The Write Post Blog.
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What do you keep that you have no use for? Prompt #233
Today’s writing prompt: What do you keep that you have no use for?Why do you keep it?
Write your response.
Post on The Write Spot Blog.
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Surprise Party . . . Prompt #232
Write about a surprise party you have been to.
Or a surprise party you have given.
Write about a time you were surprised at a party.
Today’s Writing Prompt: Surprise Party
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I opened the door . . . Prompt #231
Today’s writing prompt: I opened the door . . .I’m looking forward to reading your writing on this one. So many possibilities.
I opened the door . . .
Photo by Breana Marie
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I am still waiting for . . . Prompt #230
I am still waiting for . . .Or . . .
I have stopped waiting for.
Write for 15-20 minutes. Post your freewrite on The Write Spot Blog.
Prompt: What are you still waiting for?
What have you stopped waiting for?
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Surprise! Prompt #229
Write about a time you were surprised . . . or caught off guard.
What happened? How did you react?
Writing Prompt: Surprise!
Type your freewrite and post on The Write Spot Blog.
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Penny for your thoughts. Prompt #227
Writing prompts are designed to spark your imagination and help you dip into your well of creativity. Using prompts, setting your timer for 15-20 minutes and writing freely, with no censorship, no editor sitting on your shoulder = a freewrite. Write whatever bubbles up for you. Write freely, write openly, write until your heart is content.
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This Old Barn . . . Prompt #226
Today’s Writing Prompt . . . This Old Barn.
Or: If this barn could talk. . .
What do you think this barn was used for? Did you grow up near a barn like this?
Either write what really happened or make something up.
This old barn . . .
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I never thought of that .. . Prompt # 225
Part Three of a three-part series of writing prompts inspired by Susan Bono’s Jumpstart Writing Workshop.
A rewarding aspect of writing is when writers create scenarios that offer illumination for readers . . . that “aha moment.”
Inside a Snowflake
Tiny snow droplets slide into the snowflake
as it falls to the ground. if you listen, really closely,
you can hear the sun crunching together.
The weather is stormy—a snowstorm
with little snowflakes inside the big snowflake.
A girl lives in the snowflake, with golden hair in pretty braids
with a ribbon on the bottom.
At midnight she watches the snow fall outside the snowflake,
and the icicles drip. the next day she goes out
on the frozen lake and ice skates.
Sparks of ice fly up behind her.
By Emily Osborn, Grade 3, Poetry In The Schools
I love this fun and creative perspective, “. . . little snowflakes inside the big snowflake.”
Our unique ways of seeing things and capturing our thoughts in the written word can inspire readers, “Oh, I never thought of it like that.”
But how do writers access those sparks of creativity? Just Write. Be yourself. When you sit down to write, shed your inner critic, get in touch with your child-like world of discovery.
Writing Prompt: Write about being inside something.
