Writing Prompts

I recently received a book, Kickstartered on a whim, called "The Book of Good Things." It contains a series of prompts and activities, and at the end it encourages you to call a phone number and leave a message for others to listen to. It then will publish those messages (if the caller gives permission) in podcast form so other Book Of Good Things enjoyers can listen to.

The book itself is small and will not take me long to complete, but it has already inspired me to revisit the idea of giving myself writing prompts. Today's post is late because I had to do my activity for the day first! So, here's a list of writing prompts I'm going to attempt to follow along with at a pace of one per week. I have further given myself the limitation of only writing these in my physical journal.

• What consistently makes you laugh out loud?
  
• What's the most interesting fact you've ever learned about your family?
• Describe something you really enjoyed making.
• Why did you decide to start doing these prompts?
• (from the Book of Good Things) What is the most interesting thing about humans? (not best, or worst, just interesting)
• Try to describe what you feel when you listen to your favorite song.
• Who did you encounter today, and why do you remember them?
• Think about the last 2 movies you watched and then try to link them with a common theme
• Describe your ideal cozy morning
• What was the last piece of news that made you angry? Work through that anger on the page.
  

These are a few I came up with while I was at work today, but I am hoping to think of more. Anyway, writing down or drawing things as close to when they happen or when you feeling them is the best we can do for accurately remembering things, because our memory itself is absolutely rubbish. Write or draw something today as accurately as possible. Then, in 1 year go back and read/look at it. It probably won't come back to mind in the way you wrote it down. Anyway, halfway through the week. I'm already tired.

Still being kind to my neighbor though.