Start with something enormous and begin describing by taking your description from the general to the specific, the large to the tiny. For example, from a mountain to the bobbing wild flower gone to seed.
Tuesday prompt: #3 2013
Tuesday prompts
Tuesday prompt: #2 2013
Today imagine yourself or a character doing a common activity, i.e., washing dishes. In the process of this activity, have a mythological creature appear. How would your character or you react to such an event? Write about it.
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| Spirit of the cave |
For example: Let’s say you choose dish washing. Imagine as the water was flowing out of the tap, you (or your character) realized the water was looking just like a foot disappearing down the drain as if a water spirit had flowed out of the tap. What would happen? Would you turn the water off or reach for the disposal switch? Would you back away or grab for the foot. Write out the scene and find out.
Tuesday Prompt: #1 2013
Happy New Year prompt:
Write about what you are hoping for in this new year, what a new year might bring to a character’s story that you are working on or work on a poem about bringing in a new year. Speculate as far as you can go.
Just like this kaleidoscope picture, imagine turning the view on the new year and seeing what a small shift in perception or action might bring.
Tuesday prompt: #53 2012
Write about a Christmas moment. Keep it tightly focused: green and red sparks twinkle on a round blue ornament, drizzled in gold glitter. On the lower half of the roundness, where less of the glitter crusted, reflect the curved images of two children in red pajamas pulling aside bright wrapping paper. The background soft chimes of Christmas music take back stage to the delighted “thank you’s” as some are shouted out in inattentive abandon while others are whispered in glorious wonder.
Or write about a birthday, if you are commercial Christmassed out.
Tuesday prompt: #52 2012
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| Success going up the ladder |
Choose an idea: happiness, success, despair, governance, laziness or…. Give it human qualities (yes, personification) and let it wander through a room or down a road, take a seat at a desk or settle in comfortably against a tree along a byway. Describe it thoroughly from the button on the top of its cap to the nails in the soles of its shoes.
Tuesday prompt: #51 2012
For today’s prompt, go a little Gothic. Poem or short story, throw in some mystery, a dash of ghostly visitations, a good dollop of stormy weather, a secret and for the climax, conflagration. If it helps, add some heavy eyeliner to put yourself in the mood. Think dark, stormy and someone hiding in the attic.