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Writing Prompt #841

Write about peace using sensations, nature, adjectives, nouns, verb or story  ... without using the word "peace." Show us what peace is through your writing.

Writing Prompt #840

Mary Oliver said:

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” 

What would you like to pay more attention to? Pay attention to it now by writing about it.

Writing Prompt #839

 

Look at both of these sentences. Which one brings up a story, an association, or a poetic revery? Or maybe you have something for both. Show us through your words. Artists render a drawing of a normal fish and then an odd fish.

• I was the normal one.
• I was the odd one.

Writing Prompt #838

You did so well with "In the beginning ...," I thought another starter would keep the momentum of genius going. This one's not from such a lofty publication but has potential for a springboard of easy writing.

Just when you thought ...

optional alternative:
Just when I thought...

Artists: Render a creative blender

Writing Prompt #837

 

The book of Genesis starts out, "In the beginning ..."  The bible is a serious and lofty publication with a big readership. It's a great sentence to start other not so serious and lofty pieces. Make a list of possibilities of where you could use: "In the beginning ..." and go in a much lighter or poetic direction with it. For instances:

• In the beginning there was egg, sugar and flower
• In the beginning there was a sunrise over a tulip field
• In the beginning there was infatuation

Artists:  Illustrate an in-the-beginning idea

Writing Prompt #836

 

You have been assigned to loiter. Where will you do that and what will it look like?

Suggestions:

Don't limit it to reality.

Use poetry or prose to describe your loitering experience.

What qualifies you to exceed at loitering?

Artists:

Draw a bird loitering on a telephone line above a puddle where two turtles and a shark fin are also loitering

Writing Prompt #835

 It's Mother's Day weekend. I'm a mom of a cat, I love Mother Nature, I "mom" myself a lot because there was some mom-stuff missing when I was growing up, I also am grateful I got my mom's brains, creativity, looks, and sense of humor.  All of this is fodder for writing. Explore the mom-stuff in your life.  Pick one or more and wax poetic and let prose flow.

Writing Prompt #834

 

Write a poetic or prose review for some mundane meal or snack you had recently.

Suggestions:

• Just write without much thought and see what happens.
• Use haiku or a three line poem.
• Write about your experience in second or third person.
• Exaggerate.
• Use lots of details.

 

Writing Prompt #833

Time for a word-pool for the weekend:

Take some or all of these words and phrases and weave them into prose, poetry, or a long nonsensical verse:

• to rise out
• life is reflected
• chocolate pie
• regardless
• fierce
• playful
• jaunts
• lavendar
• grace
• attic
• final gift
• come forward
• gardener
• godlike act
• earthbound