Write something in the first person
Write something in the second person
Write something in the third person
If it gets bad, just writing can be the prompt. Don’t leave the page empty
Take a poetry book, grab a line, and continue from there
Write something using only dialogue
Write a piece about a missing person that was never reported missing
Continued from 8 (Burn from a curling iron)
Continued from 8+9 (teeth)
What is keeping you from working on _____? {Blueberry, a personal project}
Write about that moment when you are writing, and you feel the overwhelm of not knowing the end. Or whatever it is.
Luck and Magical thinking - what is your relationship with these ideas
Continued from 8-10 (A handshake)
You haven’t been sleeping, have you?
“I’m on my way somewhere, I swear,” Vincent Lima
Fight someone for control of this piece
There’s a dog outside your kitchen window
Allow someone else to dictate how this goes
I don’t want to move on - Tophouse
Write a story with absolutely no dialogue
Continued from day 29 - write about a mountain god
If you didn’t have to work anymore and could write everyday, how long would it take you to write?
Continued from day 29-30 - refuse the call to action
It hurts to look at the snow
Write about that baby you have been dreaming about
Talk about someone you are struggling to deal with
Talk about the project you have been avoiding
Coming home after a night of drinking
Crossing paths with a small family
I don’t want to write today
Since I continued a couple pieces over multiple days I went ahead and created prompts that corresponded with the writing for those days, rather then just saying “Continued”
Photo by Christian Bass on Unsplash
This project is a lot of work.
When I came up with the idea I didn’t realize that it was going to be about 2 hours every night. I also wasn’t expecting to be working 47+ hours a week. I wasn't expecting to get some of the most stressful news of the last year. I wasn’t expecting to be offered a full time job that I will be starting at the end of the month. I wasn’t expecting to get sick or to start having sleeping problems. I wasn’t expecting to feel tired all the time.
I’ve still written something everyday despite all this and that is pretty amazing. I have never stuck with one of my own ideas for so long. I’ve never written every day so consistently. Sometimes the writing is shit and sometimes it leaves me wrecked but I have been showing up for myself in a way i never have before.
I have failed at a most simple part of it, though. Not the writing, not the sharing but the stats. I have been checking the stats on each post and putting a lot of emotion in the responses I am getting. The pieces I pour everything into, where i am raw and broken in front of the world, get nothing. The silly story of a squirrel and a mountain god gets so many.
But I am so twisted up and tired.
Thanks for reading day 40 of 200 days of writing. And thank you for coming along on the writing journey with me even on the days when I’m a bit down in the dumps.
I’ll see you all tomorrow.
I try to get some extra sleep tonight.