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.
Today’s prompt: Penny for your thoughts.
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 . . .
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.
This is Part Two of a three-part series of writing prompts inspired by Susan Bono’s Jumpstart Writing Workshop. Part One: Something Missing . . . Prompt #223
Susan talked about creating tension when the reader knows something that the narrator/character doesn’t know.
Prompt: Create or recreate a scene where the narrator/character doesn’t know what’s going on.
So many possibilities for this prompt. You can write what you learned, what someone else learned, what your fictional character learned. Just write!
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“We” is me — a one-woman show. It’s just me, Marlene, offering inspiration and writing prompts to spark your writing.
Prompts are posted on Wednesdays and Fridays. Use these prompts however they best work for you. One suggestion is to set your timer for 15-20 minutes. Sometimes the best writing gets done with the pressure of a deadline. Write fast and furious.
Do not expect “perfect” writing. No one will read your freewrite, unless you invite them to. Freewrites come from within you and burst out during this time of writing freely. Sometimes when we’re writing freely, our mind takes a 90 degree turn and pretty soon we’re off, writing about something completely unrelated to the writing prompt. That is absolutely fine. This is the best kind of writing. This type of mind wandering is perfect writing.
The Write Spot Blog is a place where you can experiment with different types of writing: serious, personal, humorous, reflective, personal essay, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, screen writing, letter writing.
It’s a place where you can work on your writing and play with writing. You can be yourself (memoir/personal essay), you can be someone else (fiction), you can be a reporter (non-fiction/ essay).
As you observe the world and its quirky inhabitants, explore your findings through writing. Work out your problems by writing. Write about your feelings. Write what you observe. Write about your day, your family, friends, your job, your wishes, your dreams, write about your frustrations. Make up stuff. Just write!
How to get into the mood to write.
Natalie Goldberg talks about writing practice.
Take a step. Start the journey. Explore by writing.
Paris stairs by Jim C. March
http://jamescmarch.com/JimPhotos/index.html
You can respond to this prompt, using your personal experience, or write from your fictional character’s point of view.
Writing Prompt: Behind the shutters.
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Homonyms (also called homophones) are words that sound like one another but have different meanings. Some homonyms are spelled the same, like bark (the sound a dog makes) and bark (the outer layer of a tree trunk). Enchanted Learning
Freewrites mean writing freely. You are free to write whatever you want.
Use any or all of the following words in a freewrite:
Flower – Flour Beach – Beech Bough – Bow
Fur – Fir Morning – Mourning Birth – Berth
Red – Read Time – Thyme Eye – Aye
New – Gnu You – Ewe You’ll – Yule
If ewe are knew too freewwrites oar kneed eh refresher . . .
If you are new to freewrites or need a refresher:
Freewrites . . . What Do You Call Them?
What is a freewrite and what is a writing prompt?
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This seems to be the time of year to make lists. I am normally a list maker, but I get real serious about it starting mid-December. With all the “kids” coming home for the holidays, I mentally list where everyone will sleep. Then I gather blankets, quilts, comforters and pillows. Some unlucky family members have to sleep on the floor. Can’t be too bad, because they keep coming back.
Then there are the other lists: shopping (gifts, groceries), meals (breakfasts, dinners. . .I’m not used to cooking for nine), party planning (food, drinks, moving furniture), holiday cards (cards received, cards sent) . . . okay, probably too much information. But yes, I am that serious about making lists.
I’ve been thinking about bucket lists. You know . . . things you’ve always wanted to do and some day you will.
I’m wondering, what’s on your bucket list?
For fiction writers. . . what’s on your fictional characters’ bucket lists? You can use this as a way to get to know them better.
If you want, you can make an opposite type of list: Things you no longer want to do. Things you never wanted to do. Things you will never do again.
Helpful lists for strategizing your holidaze: “Rewrite Your Holiday Scene Prompt #210”.