Your Writing Starts Here: April Prompts
Spring is here, let's write!
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Spring has sprung. Here in Portland we’re alternating between heavy rain and soul-satisfying sunshine (though I love the rain, too), often on the same day. But blossoms bursting forth everywhere remind us that we can remake ourselves anew. And the same goes for your writing. I hope these prompts help keep you going to the page regularly.
Last month, I reprinted the instructions for writing to prompts which really are just suggestions because I don’t believe in being dictatorial. You can find those here. And a reminder, paid subscribers get a PDF of the prompts, which is handy to print out and stash in your journal.
Anyway, enough chit-chat. Let’s get to the writing.
The Prompts
1.
Write about springtime in specific detail. Then add how you feel about it.
2.
The god blinked and the world he’d created….
3.
“Don’t do it,” he yelled.
4.
What happened when she did it?
5.
Rain fell, dripped, and pooled.
6
Who says the Oxford comma is dead?
7.
The red-haired girl blew bubbles and chased them.
8.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
9.
There’s always a patch of blue.
10.
It’s five o’clock somewhere.
11.
The work was endless.
12.
So there’s that.
13.
An arctic fox scampered.
14.
The day stretched before him, empty and full of promise.
15.
He was a lump of foul deformity. (With thanks to Shakespeare.)
16.
The forest was dark and dense and full of mysterious sounds.
17.
A cheerful coffeeshop.
18.
Mysteries of existence.
19.
A mission to Mars.
20.
Try it and see what happens.
21.
Describe how you got to school as a child.
22.
“Let go,” she said. “Let it all go.”
23.
The old crone cackled.
24.
People are strange when you’re a stranger. (With thanks to Jim Morrison.)
25.
Things will never be the same again.
26.
Write about a dream you had that you no longer desire.
27.
The vast space was filling up fast.
28.
Wowza.
29.
Light’s out.
30.
When the music’s over….
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