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Writing Group Prompt: Pick a number. Any number.
Firstly, the writing group has been on a Summer hiatus. But alas, we have returned. For this prompt, I wanted to do something a little more individualized. I picked 30 random prompts and assigned...
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Writing Group Prompt: It’s the night before your one way mission to Mars
Every once in a while I like to take inspiration from an intriguing news story to inspire writing. For this prompt, I tried to tap into the mindset of some people I heard about that were volunteering...
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Writing Group Prompt: What has most influenced you into the person you are...
For this prompt, I guided my participants through a more non-fiction style prompt. We explored the area of what the biggest influences have been in shaping them into the men they are today. I think...
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Writing Group Prompt: What does the word “over” mean to you?
Writing is all about expressing yourself through written language. The obvious benefit is that people who are normally sealed off can become more transparent with their feelings. It helps others to...
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Writing Group Prompt: You are now the oldest living man on Earth
For this prompt I asked my participants to imagine themselves one day becoming the oldest living man on Earth. I was inspired by this prompt after hearing news that the world’s oldest living man,...
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Writing Group Prompt: Surviving Friday the 13th
Sometimes things converge on one single day to create a plethora of bad luck. For this prompt, which took place on Friday the 13th, I thought it would be fun for the participants to write a story...
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Writing Group Prompt: Free Write
I like to start off a group, especially one that hasn’t met for a while, with a free write. It’s a helpful way to get out whatever is on your mind, like a journal entry. Once you get it out, you can...
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Writing Group Prompt: Summer is just around the corner…
For this prompt, from almost exactly a year ago, I had participants write down at the top of their page: “Summer is just around the corner, then what…” The idea of the prompt was to engage in hopeful...
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Writing Group Prompt: The Beauty of This Problem Is…
After discovering a treasure trove of old journals and notebooks, I found this prompt and response which I’d completely forgotten about. I’m not entirely sure when this was from, but the prompt was:...
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Writing Group Prompt: Free Write!
Every once in a while it’s helpful to do a free write. With a free write, there are no rules except to, well, write. You can touch upon whatever you wish as long as you have your pen swiftly shaping...
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Writing Group Prompt: Scientists find the cure for death
For this prompt I had the writers reflect on this fictional scenario: Scientists have just discovered the key to immortality. I then I asked them to write a letter requesting to save the event of...
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Writing Group Prompt: Hear The Silence
For this prompt, I simply asked my participants to sit in silence for about five minutes. There was to be no talking. No writing. No cell phone operation. A difficult task for anyone in this modern...
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Writing Group Prompt: Confined To A Single Room
For this prompt I asked my participants to write a story where nothing takes place outside of one single room. The intention was to push the writers, and myself, to be imaginative in a very limited...
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Writing Group Prompt: Let’s Get Poetic with “I” Words!
This prompt entailed a two part exercise. The first part was to list as many words they could think of in a few minutes that started with the letter “I.” It’s amazing how quickly you first can spit...
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Writing Group Prompt: National Siblings Day!
My brother Steve, my sister Traci and the glorious me. For this week I tied our prompt in with yesterday’s holiday of sorts. A day which no one, myself included, seemed to know much about until people...
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Writing Group Prompt: An Old Photo You Carry
For this writing prompt, I asked the writers to look at a photo they have with them. Not many people carry photos in their wallets these days, but most have many in their phones. I for instance have...
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Writing Group Prompt: Hope Is A Vital Organ
For this prompt I asked the writers to think of hope as a vital organ. Hope is such an important thing and really does fuel a person’s body, and spirit, when it thrives. I wanted them to think about...
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Writing Group Prompt: Acknowledging mortality for the first time
For this writing prompt, I had the group write about a fictional story where a character acknowledges mortality for the first time. Some of the writers wrote amazing pieces of young kids having to be...
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Writing Prompt: Yoko Ono’s Season Of Glass
For this prompt I used an excerpt from poetry written by Yoko Ono. The words are: spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance autumn passes and one...
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Writing Group Prompt: Chocolate Cupcake
For this writing exercise, I decided to use cupcakes as a prompt. (The picture to the right is comparable to the ones we had, but not exact) We each took time to look the cupcake over and then eat...
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