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Writing Prompt #823

Making a list into a piece of writing is one of the simplest ways to write, so if you haven't written in awhile, here's your chance to make it easy.

Make a list of sounds you typically hear in a day. Add that all important detail staying away from vague and general. You might find a rhythm if you put "I hear ..." in front of each item on your list. Then embellish, what can you add? Think of ways of varying the sentence before those things you hear, for instance adding, "If I listen closely ..." or "Once I heard."  

Make up your own instructions around this if mine don't excite you.

Writing Prompt #822

Make this your first sentence, and keep going:

I'm almost finished.

Suggestions:

• Write several second sentences and then make them into a poem or look back over the list and see which second setence has the most electricity for you and keep going with it.
• Use it as a refrain instead of a first sentence.
• Use is as the last line.
• Change the sentence to work for you.
• Stare into oblivion and see all the things that are almost finished in the world and describe the vision.

Writing Prompt #821

This weekend use one word as a jumping off point for your writing.  

Here's your word: Off-limits

Suggestions:

• Make a list of all your associations to "off-limits"
• Don't limit yourself - are there emotions that are off-limits? Memories? 
• What would you like to do with something that IS off-limits?

Writing Prompt #820

As mentioned in prompt #819, choose at least one of the five titles you listed and start a piece that goes in the direction of the last line you chose. Don't worry if you get there or not, just let it go where it will as a beginning unless it seems to want to complete itself quickly.

Optional: Choose a title from someone else's prompt.

Writing Prompt #819

 

Use the letters from the alphabet, M through T, make a list of titles of possible poems, books, essays or prose pieces each title starting with the letters sequentially. Then pick at least five of your titles, the ones that make you feel most energetic, and intuitively come up with a last line. 

On Monday you will: Choose at least one of those five titles and start a piece that goes in the direction of the last line you chose. Don't worry if you get there or not, just let it go where it will as a beginning unless it seems to want to complete itself quickly. 

Artists - Use the same letters to make a list of possible art subjects. Choose three of your subjects and see if you can combine them in the same drawing or painting. 

Writing Prompt #818

Begin with the following sentence and free write seeing where it takes you:

As the two solitary walkers approach, they see each other up close ...

 

Suggestions:

Consider that they may not be human.

Free write or explore more than one completion and go with the one with the most juju.

Writing Prompt #817

 

Explore different ways to write about your shoes

Write about the shoes you wear the most.

Suggestions:

• Make it a three-line story.
• Describe them in detail.
• Write about your shoes from the point of view of being:
• Absent minded
• Absurd
• Determined
• sensual
• Lie about them

Writing Prompt #816

 

Let's work with the spontaneous intuition given a vague, ambivalent prompt this week.

Your singular prompt is the word "I". 

You can start a list of sentences with "I" , have "I" somewhere within each sentence in a list, or simply start a prose or poetic piece with "I" and free write based on what seems to be on your mind and how that morphs as you continue writing. Having such a simple prompt will invite all sorts of possibilities, all valid, all that take you on a journey of discovery or coincidence.

"I" hope you enjoy it.

Writing Prompt #815

Do four or five six (or more) word stories this weekend. 
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Given chocolate, I can endure life.

I get along well with cats.