What’s the landscape of my heart? Strange question? Today’s prompt: What is the landscape of your heart? What place moves your soul? Flat desert or dry heat? Mountains and pine trees? City streets? The Midwest or the New England you grew up in? Or maybe a landscape that you’ve only read about or seen in…
Where Do You Live?
Today’s prompt invites us to go deeper into ourselves. Where do you live? In a house, in a town, in a dream? Be literal or not. The photographer Dorothea Lange once gave her students an assignment to photograph where they lived. They asked her to do the assignment too; she brought a picture of her…
Why Can’t I Pay Attention?
There there are many times that I can’t pay attention. Today’s prompt reads: Write about a time you tried to pay attention but couldn’t. You floated out of your head, or you fell asleep, or you studied your fingernails. What was it you didn’t want to pay attention to? What was it you were avoiding?…
Paying Attention
I’m trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that there’s one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. — Richard Ford Paying Attention Today’s prompt: Write what you five senses are picking up right at this moment.…
Cold Water
Today’s prompt suggests that you write about a time when you went into cold water — a lake, pool, shower, or rain. Write about how your body reacted. Was it a delicious relief from the heat, or a shock that caused goose bumps and made your lips turn blue? Or write about the cold water as a…
Three Sentences
Day 3 of my 100 day project and this is the prompt for today: Write 3 sentences. They don’t have to connect. They don’t even have to make sense. Just three sentences. The hardest part is the first three sentences. Sitting down with pen and paper and just getting those first three sentences out; I…