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Writing Prompt #814

 

Time for another word pool.

Please start your next piece with: I've been thinking too much.

And continue anyway you'd like as long as you incorporate some or all of the following words and phrases:

• necessary
• around the corner
• high heels
• underneath
• wall paper
• transparent
• twilight
• out of control
• suspend

Time for another word pool.

Please start your next piece with: I've been thinking too much.

And continue anyway you'd like as long as you incorporate some or all of the following words and phrases:

• necessary
• around the corner
• high heels
• underneath
• wall paper
• transparent
• twilight
• out of control
• suspend

Writing Prompt #813

 

 

Imagine this bird is facing frontward to speak to you.

What’s he/she have to say to you?

Finish one or more unfinished sentence:
I was just noticing …

You know, I think you might want to...

I know I’m a bird but...

You are most incredible when …

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Here are a few completions from last night's writing workshop:

You're most incredible when you decide to let go of desires to be fashionable all the time.

Just wear black and white feathers, including black leggings and three-toed boots like me!

 

I know I’m just a bird ...but
I’ve seen things. You know i can fly, right? That makes me cooler than you right there. And not into windows like some of my dumb friends. I can soar majestically above the clouds, i know all the best parks, who shares food, and where to poop... your car!

Writing Prompt #812

Keep going with this sentence (either one time, or repeat it a number of times then pick the one that has the most juju:

Did I tell you about the time ...

 

Writing Prompt #811

What two feelings would you want as constant companions?

Personify them and have a dialog with them or describe them and write a haiku (or a three line poem) about them separate or together

Writing Prompt #810

 

It's time to find your inspiration again from a near-by book, newspaper, or magazine. Open it up, find one or two sentences and keep going with them in your own direction.

Writing Prompt #809

 

Go back to post # 807 

There are lists, from you and others, of things that want to be written. Pick one or more of your own or someone else's and since it wants to be written, write about it. Take it in a different direction than you might default to. Combine ideas. Basically, have fun.

Writing Prompt #808

Write about what your shadow or any shadow would say to you if it could talk. 

Or write about the shadow in the image. 

Suggestions:

• Have a dialog.
• Consider what it would be like if your shadow wasn't cooperative.
• What would it take for a shadow to become three dimensional?

Writing Prompt #807

 

Consider a quick ritual to summon writing. Light a candle, wear a special hat, wave as if bringing fresh energy into your writing sphere, eat a slice of pizza imagining it was endowed with inspiration from the Mozzarella Muses.

Close your eyes for a moment and ask yourself, "What wants to be written?" Give it a few minutes longer if your attention span has been easily hijacked lately. Start to train your attention span to be under your control rather than the control of distractions.

Then begin to fill in this sentence over and over:
What wants to be written is ....

You will be choosing one or more of those for your Monday prompt, but for now see what kind of list you come up with. The list itself may sound like poetry once you've finished and possibly rearranged it.