So it begins! As such, let’s begin with one of my favorite prompts for generating writing when stuck: “Try This 1.2” from Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing 4th edition (also known as my personal bible).

Tuesdays, I am decreeing as you choose days. This prompt is non-genre specific. Write fiction! Write memoir! Write poetry! Write some fantastic genre-bending combination thereof! But really don’t worry about it, just write 🙂

Try This 1.2

“Here is a list of lists:

• Things on which I am an expert
• Things I have lost
• Signs of winter
• What is inside my body
• Things people have said to me
• What to take on the journey
• Things I have forgotten
• Things to make lists of

Pick any one of these items to generate a list in your journal. Pick a single word from your list and write a paragraph about it. Is this the germ of a memoir or a story? Write a single line about each item on the list. Is this the start of a poem?” (Burroway, pg. 8)