Writing Starters & Adventures

Prompts & Story Starters 7-Day Challenge: Day 1: Remix 5 min of recorded sounds. How did sounds shape mood? Day 2: Describe 5 items by touch/smell only. How did senses spark ideas? Day 3: List 20 wild uses for a mundane object. Which idea felt freeing? Day 4: Rewrite a childhood memory as a fairy tale. What emotions stirred? Day 5: Walk; link 3 natural items in a story. How did nature shift my view? Day 6: Make a mood board for an emotional color. What story did the color tell? Day 7: Refine a creation from Days 1-6. What pattern emerged? Write a story or poem by following one or more of the images that emerged over the seven days. In One Year to a Writing Life by Susan Tiberghien, the author suggests the following three steps in working with images: 1. Describe the image as a journal entry or paragraph 2. Create a mandala by placing the image in the center and draw multiple images or let your imagination fill in the space around it and give it a title 3. Now start to shape your image into a piece of writing, "to unfold its story, it needs your words." Sign-up: 12 Weeks of Exploring the Various Genres through Prompts: Beginner classes having fun trying out all of the genres over a period of 12 weeks. Send an email if you are interested to be put on a waiting list.