Study the image for a few minutes then write about it.
Today is International Women’s Day. On a fresh page write in the center, Women I Admire. Around this write down the names of ten women you admire (make at least half the list of women you actually know). Join the women’s names to the center words (put a circle around it if you like) with a line. For each woman attach three words or phrases to represent what you admire about them. Feel free to use colors or decorate the page with stickers or pictures; or not.
Here’s a weekend quote to journal about:
“No work is insignificant. All labor
that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:
One. Two. Three. He caressed each bullet in the palm of his hand before slipping it into its chamber. He had done this dozens of times before but somehow tonight it felt poetic. Four. Five. Six. When the last chamber was loaded he looked across the room to the menacing man he had tied to a chair. Would today lead him to the salvation he…
Set your timer and for the next fifteen minutes and write something using these twelve words. The order of the words can be switched around as necessary. The choice of whether you write fiction or non-fiction is up to you.
- miss
- French
- listen
- fate
- leap
- dance
- gym
- panic
- miscarriage
- laughing
- meeting
- elect
Victory
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: the ring
Your form is: Pantoum (see form below)
Ex:
Line One
Line Two
Line Three
Line Four
Line Five same as Line Two
Line Six
Line Seven same as Line Four
Line Eight
Line Nine same as Line Six
Line Ten
Line Eleven same as Line Eight
Line Twelve
Line Thirteen same as Line Ten
Line Fourteen
Line Fifteen same as Line Twelve
Line Sixteen
Line Seventeen
Line Eighteen same as Line Three
Line Nineteen
Line Twenty same as Line One
Study the image for a few minutes then write about it.
yellow and white flower image copyright Louise Docker, flickr
Today marks the first day of Women’s History Month. Journal about a woman in history that you respect and admire.
Here’s a weekend quote to journal about:
“Let me listen to me
and not to them.”
~ Gertrude Stein
The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:
When we signed up, volunteered really, we never expected it to be more than a six month term. Three years later we are still battling over who…
Are you in control of your own mind? Watch this 8 minute video for cues that you may not. This week’s video clip provides excellent fodder for a fiction piece on mind control either from the controlled or the controller. Or a non-fiction piece on mind control in our daily lives.
