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Think of an odor, a sensation, and an article of clothing. Write out for each a detailed description. Once you have each one well developed, combine them in a short scene or poem.
Tuesday prompts
Tuesday prompt: #49 2012
Write in a gender different from your own and an age past your own (add or subtract about 20 years). In this voice write about some thing of particular concern: global warming, retirement income, home loans, pet care, hair dye. Keep it in first person and work on creating a distinct voice for your character.
Tuesday prompt: #47 2012
Write about appreciation. Not just appreciating any old thing, but about appreciating the people in your life. Imagine what it would be like to go through tomorrow without them.
This evening I was driving into town along dark roads, tightened by a serious case of forever road construction, to pick up my daughter at school. We hadn’t been sure when she would be done with her practice, so we had waited for her call telling us she would be hanging out in the parking lot of the school. So as I drove I thought for just a moment what I would do if I arrived and she wasn’t there. I wasn’t really worried as I knew she was waiting with friends who lived close by the school, but all the same, for a moment I thought about her and how much I do appreciate her giggly hello, the way she jumps into the passenger seat as though we were off to some wild, long-awaited adventure, and the habitual slamming of the door, eliciting my usual rebuke about killing our old car. My daughter has a habit of starting off her tales of the day with, “Guess what?” I can never guess, but I usually supply her with some sort of outrageous, impossible event: giant ants carried off Coach Fisher or Mindy has dyed her hair florescent pink, again, by accident. She gives me her usual rolled eye glance, slowly shaking head of exasperation, followed by the true life events that colored her evening. Yes, I want tomorrow to contain the giggle, the bounce, slam, “Guess what?, rolling eyes, shaking head and a new set of teenage angst stories, and the day after, too. I would appreciate that.
Tuesday prompt: #46 2012
What’s upstairs? Take your reader up those stairs, barefoot. Let them feel every creak, rough edge, small nail poking up. Make each step an adventure in itself. Then show them what is on the second floor (or third floor, or in the attic). But make is a slow trip where every word is ultimately connected to the object or place you will take them to.
Tuesday prompt: #44 2012
Think about a dream you had recently (if you remember your dreams). What about it carried the strongest emotional tug. Focus in on that and describe it with as much detail as you can. Try to recapture everything that carried emotion, evoked emotion or still creates a stir in your mind. If you are not a person who remembers your dreams, how about a day dream? The main point is to locate the strongest point of emotion and put that across.
Tuesday Prompt: #43 2012
Dig out an old photo of when you were a kid. Write about the moment it was taken. Imagine the image in black and white whether it is or not. Keep your descriptions of colors in the grey scale. Go for the shadows, the bright spots; enrich your description by looking at the sharpness of the lines, the feelings the picture evokes and the story it is ready to tell.