Week 1:
What's something you were afraid of as a child?
Write about your first day of school or college.
Write about graduation.
What memories are brought by the following smells?
Pine needles
Damp paper
Cinnamon
What kind of day are you having, and why?
What's your favorite color, place, food, book, song, or movie, and why?
What do you like to do? How does it make you feel?
Describe your dream: job, man/woman, house.
Week 2:
What's something difficult you had to do?
What's an embarrassing moment that happened to you?
Write about your first crush.
Write about a wedding or divorce.
What memories are brought by the following smells?
Cut grass
Frying bacon
Chalk
Where are you happiest? Describe that place.
What's something you're good at? What makes you good at it?
What do you consider to be your culture, and how do you feel about it?
How would you like your life to be when you're older?
Week 3:
Who is someone you've lost? What are some of your memories about that person?
What's something that helped to shape your outlook to life?
Write about your first date.
Write about pregnancy, yours or someone else's.
What memories are brought by the following smells?
Sunscreen
A new car
A Band-Aid
What would you change about yourself or your life? Is there a way for you to change it?
What is your relationship like with various members of your family?
If you have brothers or sisters, how are you similar to them or different from them? What about with your friends?
What would be the guest list at your dream party? What would the various guests talk about?
Week 4:
Describe your teachers at school.
Describe your best childhood friend and your relationship with this person.
Write about your first car.
Write about childbirth.
What memories are brought by the following smells?
Rubbing alcohol
Roses
Crushed grass
What are your views on religion?
What keeps you up at night worrying? Are your worries realistic? Is there anything you can do about them?
Do you have a philosophy of life? If so, what is it? If not, what is your method for making important decisions?
What magic power would you like to have? How would you use it? What would it feel like?
Week 5:
Describe your teachers at school.
Describe your best childhood friend and your relationship with this person.
Write about your first home.
Write about a job or career change or retirement.
What memories are brought by the following smells?
Cinnamon
Radiators heating up
Bath powder
Orange peel
In what areas are you optimistic, and in what areas are you pessimistic?
What are your most prized possessions?
Who is someone you miss?
If you won the lottery, what would you do?
Week 6:
When you were a child, how did you imagine your adult self?
What are some of the memories you associate with springtime? With summer, fall, and winter?
Write about your first pet or job.
What memories are brought by the following smells?
Pencil erasers
Vinegar
Newly-vacuumed carpet
Mothballs
New shoes
An old book
What is something someone else has that you envy? Describe it and your feelings about it.
What is a book, movie, song, or television program that has influenced you, and how?
What is a mistake people often make about you?
What's a country you'd like to visit? How do you imagine your time there?
In class writing prompts:
Week 1: Write about your defining moment. Your inciting incident. How did this change your life?
Week 2: You are in a car. How old are you? What kind of car is it? Where are you sitting? Who else is in the car? Who is driving? What color is the car? Who is on your left? Where are you going?
Week 3: Everybody has an eccentric relative. (Talk about Uncle Ernie.) Write about yours.
He’s the type of guy (she’s the
type of gal) who…
Week 4: Think of a confrontation you had with your mother. Write a scene about it. Now write about it in dialogue form.
Week 5: List all the places you’ve ever lived. Choose one and write a description using sensory details.
Pick a scene from your childhood and write about it in the voice and point of view of a young child.
Week 4: Think of a confrontation you had with your mother. Write a scene about it. Now write about it in dialogue form.
Week 5: List all the places you’ve ever lived. Choose one and write a description using sensory details.
Pick a scene from your childhood and write about it in the voice and point of view of a young child.
