Starting over

Prompt: How many times have you had to “start over”? Talk about one of those times.

Starter: “Coffee, tea, or soda?” “Water, please.”

Quote: “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

 

Inventions…

Prompt: Write about owning a smart toilet. Do not research beforehand, be purely creative.

Starter: The floor caved with an alarming sound.

Quote: “An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.” -Tim O’Reilly

 

Forgiveness… You

Prompt: What do you need to forgive yourself for?

Starter: “I can take you more seriously as a shooter wearing the beanie.”

Quote: “One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.” -Bernard Baruch

 

Death… you

Prompt: If you could choose your death, what would it be? Why? Are you afraid to die?

Starter: He has too much hair.

Quote: “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

 

You…

Prompt: How do you feel about yourself at this very moment? Allow yourself to be honest, raw, and uninhibited.

Starter: “I’m not mad. Really. I’m not mad.”

Quote: “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

 

Loss… Friendship

Prompt: Write about the loss of a friendship.

Starter: Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.

Quote: “A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it’s not a friendship until after you’ve had a fight.”

-Unknown

 

Deserving… car

Prompt: Convince your parents you deserve a new car.

Starter: “Was that supposed to hurt?”

Quote: “Beware: It is a quick transition from nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.” -Steve Maraboli

 

Change of Plans

Prompt: Write about a time when you had to change your plans at the last minute, no matter how big or small.

Story Starter: My designated driver is drunk.

Quote: “You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.” -John Berger

 

Firsts… memory

Prompt: Write about your first memory.

Starter: Trouble has a way of finding me.

Quote: “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” -Cesare Pavese

 

Rock bottom…

Prompt: Describe a time in your life when you hit rock bottom.

Starter: “Go ahead. Defend yourself.”

Quote: “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.” -JK Rowling

 

Firsts…

Prompt: The first time I…

Starter: I wanted to. Oh, how I wanted to.

Quote: “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” -Stephen King

 

Hot and cold

Prompt: Would you rather be too hot or too cold? Why? Explain then tell of a time when you were one of each.

Starter: “Tell me again why you think you deserve a raise.”

Quote: “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have not unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.” -William Strunk, Jr.

 

….

Prompt: One more time.

Starter: The more I looked, the harder it became to look away.

Quote: “Sometimes I wonder if I’m a character being written, or if I’m writing myself.” -Marilyn Manson

 

Prayer…

Prompt: Who and/or what do you pray for? Who and/or what do you pray to?

Starter: I hated to be late.

Quote: “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” -Mark Twain

 

Dinner…

Prompt: Jesus and Satan sit down to dinner together- how do you suppose it would go? What would they discuss? What would they eat? Would they get along? Would there be tension? Elaborate as much as possible.

Starter: If I never saw him again, it would still be too soon.

Quote: “Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.” -Natalie Goldberg