Prompt #1: Does Father’s Day have a special meaning for you? Or is it just another day?
Prompt #2: What about Mother’s Day? Special or just another day? Write whatever comes up for you.
Prompt #3: Write about Memorial Day or Fourth of July. Anything special about them for you? Any traditions you follow now, or as a child?
Write about what money can’t buy.
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
Set the Scene: Location, Timeframe, Characters
Location: Pick one: cruise ship, theme park, bar, parlor, or a location of your choice
Timeframe: Current, Past (what year?), Future (what year?)
Develop Characters
Character #1:
Name:
Nickname:
Personality trait most proud of:
How did character get this trait?
What do people least like about character?
What habit would character like to change?
If someone looked in character’s bathroom garbage right now, what would they find:
What scent does character like the most, and what does it remind him/her of?
What scares the character?
Character #2:
Answer the same questions for Character #2.
Writing Prompt: Use the following words in a conversation between these two characters.
The last time – How dare you – Explode – Blame – Fire – Party – Light – Dark – Attitude – Box – Present – Water
Photo by Christina Gleason
