Write About: Memories and Possibilities

Workshop Writing Prompts. Thanks to Pauline, Scott, Isaac, Andrea

Gather. Write. Listen.

Today a dozen people fought through relentless sheets of rain to attend the weekly writing workshop.

In this space, people come together under the blanket of possibility. No labels. No small boxes. No divisions. Not homeless versus housed or this group versus that group. Just humans abiding together, writing and seeing and noticing.

We settled in with steaming cups of coffee, glistening donuts, and the quiet scratch of pens on paper: worlds forming, truth surfacing, the defiant emergence of our barbaric yawps.

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Writing Prompts

For each group of writing below, select one prompt and write for 10-15 minutes.

Writing 1

• Imagine we…

• List your top celebrities (up to 10) and list qualities you admire about each.

• Describe a place you’ve never been.

Writing 2

• Write about your earliest memory. Or about a vivid childhood memory.

• Write a letter to someone famous.

• Consider five important events in your life. Write about them in order of importance, explaining their weight and significance.

Writing 3

• You find a key that opens every door in the world. But you can only use it once. No one will know. Which door do you open and why? Write about what you would do with your free pass.

• Write about feeling betrayed or heartbroken by someone you considered close.

• What are your hopes for the next five years?

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