DO THIS———invest in yourself:
Time Frame: For 1 week- min. 3 mins. per prompt per day.
Instructions: Choose 1 prompt and on a blank piece of paper respond. Revisit, rework, reread as much as desired. Be sure to keep all of your papers together in a safe place for your future.
- Respond to this song:
- Fill your sheet with the following: I seem to be __________, but really I am ____________________. Fill in blanks Ex: see “She can cook a mean turkey with gravy.”
- Divide your paper into 4′s, in each part write the first 4 words which describe your current mental/emotional state, respond to each one with words, short phrases, and pictures.
- Respond to the world “love,” but control your writing with your senses.
- List alliterations about what “peace” means to you at this very moment.
- Fill your paper with the following: Up with _________, down with______________. Ex: Up with love, down with compromises.
- Write a crazy poem in the shape of your subject.
- Fill your paper with the following: The knock of _____(noun), rattles/calms/frightens my ________ (adj/verb_______(noun). Ex: The knock of truth frightens my imagined fabrications.
- Respond to the photograph (or one of your own, but only one take in September of 2007):
- Write the top 5 Best & Worst things (in details) about the place (physically, mentally, emotionally- or any combo) you currently occupy.
- Free write your thoughts on one of the following humans (using words, short phrases, and pictures- NO sentences):
- (Strisand, Burroughs, Carver, Wimer, Kahlo)
- Divide your paper in to 2 parts, label one “You fear” and the other “I fear,” making the “you” a person, place, or thing, possibly society, possibly a current fear- personify that shit.
- List every color of the rainbow (ROYGBV is enough) list emotions, thoughts, objects, people- any words you associate with them- full sentences and composed thoughts (pic 2-3 if you have to- I kept it primary).
I am/have been doing a few of these every day since being home and I have a pile of sheets to incorporate into my book…I can’t wait to show you.
