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Prompt–Thursday, August 25
I’m taking a media publication and design course this semester. The text is “The Non-Designers Design Book” by Robin Williams and one of the examples had a list of several items. It was called “The Rules of Life” and the one that stood out to me was “Don’t let the seeds stop you from enjoyin’ the watermelon.” …
Prompt–Sunday, August 21
Pick an object and a verb that isn’t related to it. For example, I’ll use “orange” and “jump.” Use both. Rolling down a hill The orange said “whee!” But when he hit the bottom, A child jumped And orange became juice.
Prompt–Thursday, August 18
I was on Twitter today and noticed W.W. Norton shared the following link. http://wwnorton.tumblr.com/post/9081381284/it-is-the-novelists-innate-cowardice-that-makes They shared a quote from Anthony Burgess. So write about cowardice. Here’s mine. I was a coward once. A space traveler who had a fear of open spaces. A bug terminator afraid to be near anything with more than four legs. …
Surprise Prompt–Monday, August 15
I watched and listened to this clip from NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/12/139241960/paul-jacobs-tiny-desk-concert Paul Jacobs commented “It’s a beautiful addiction to have.” What do you think is a ‘beautiful addiction’? Write about it. If it is any evidence to you of the stacks on my floor and several bookcases filled to the brim, I am addicted to bound …
Prompt–Sunday, August 14
“He ached from head to foot, all zones of pain seemingly interdependent. He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective.” (161) The quote above is from J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories,” specifically the short story “For Esme—with Love and Squalor.” Reading these …
Prompt–Thursday, August 11
Use an image you return to, whether it’s a favorite photo, painting, or a piece of visual art. My childhood home has a magnolia tree in the front yard. It is an image I use very often in my poems and fiction. Beetle-resistant pods yield to 4-year-old nails as they rip to enter the seed’s …
Prompt–Sunday, August 7
Think of a memory from childhood. Write something using an element from it, like an image, phrase, or situation. When I was a kid my siblings and I invented a game where we would swing in the backyard and see who could throw their shoe the farthest. Our toes met the sky as our shoes landed …
Prompt—Thursday, August 4
Take the dialogue “If you don’t like chocolate you’re a communist” and write a poem or short story or what have you, just use the line. Here is mine: She had fondue and other fixings for the engagement party and introduced us to her foreign sweetheart. Jack, our friend since grade school, commented on her …
Prompt–Sunday, July 31
One character gets three books from the library. The driver says, “You read the weirdest books.” What is the character’s response? What happens next? My example as a prose poem: One day I went to the library and with my books in tow the driver says, “You read the weirdest books.” I look to him …
Prompts
Sometimes I was stumped when I sat down to write—when I started writing seriously. So I turned to prompts for help. I used books like “The Writer’s Book of Matches” by the staff of Fresh Boiled Peanuts and “The Write Brain Workbook” by Bonnie Neubauer, as well as ones my teachers gave me in class. …
Suzanna and Writing 