Because it didn’t post yesterday…
Prompt for the day: Take out a map. It could be a national map or a world map. It really doesn’t matter. Find a place on it where you have never visited, whether it be a city, lake or river. Write about someone returning to this destination after a long time away. What does it look like. Write about the journey.
Images and things mean different things to different people. Take an ordinary thing like glass. The words “shattered” or “broken” come naturally with glass.
Prompt: What other words can you use with glass? Crumpled glass (in my palm) comes to mind, but what would you use with glass? Take that thought and run with it.
Raw excerpt for day #6.
I am a July Midwest thunderstorm in the aftermath: pent up pressure awash with a welcome release.
I took part in a writing conference over the weekend, and during the course of the conference, participated in an exercise of random words. Specifically, participants were to give the workshop instructor random nouns. One that gave was skyscraper. It was an interesting choice, partly chosen because I had recently heard Demi Lovato’s “Skyscraper” on my IPod.
Prompt: One person did chose this word in an exercise and it conjured images of 9/11 for her. Think about the word skyscraper. What does it bring to mind for you? There are no wrong answers.
Some things are just summer. Take, for instance, the weather: hot. Think 4th of July. Think state fairs and carnivals. Think cotton candy.
With these things in mind, consider this phrase: hot candy. Think about the phrase. Think about summer and write about it.
Prompt #2: hot candy
Raw excerpt for today. I will be posting these everyday. I hope to write a marathon of 30 poems this month. Want to join me? Please do!
Raw excerpt: Your love is an unexpected snowstorm in March that crushes the tender shoots penetrating the cold ground, a defeat of the simple desire to live.
OK, for those of you looking for prompts, or perhaps want to join me in writing more (30 poems!) this month, here is your daily prompt. Some days it will be a scenario. Other days it will be a word or phrase. Take what you can from them and just write!
One word: gruntled. Yes, this is a word. Not disgruntled, which is the better known word. Nope.
Gruntled: means to be pleased, satisfied, and contented. Use this word as you will in your next writing project.
Get writing!
J.L. Smith 