Writing Prompts

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Writing 1

  • Write about old folks, old-timers, and being old. Or write about youth and the young.
  • Start with this sentence: I don’t know about you, but I…
  • Write about your favorite ________. (Color, song, food, person, book, anything.)

Writing 2

  • Respond to this quote by Jim Elliot: “Wherever you are, be all there.”
  • Light. Darkness.
  • Is there something in your life that you need to release? It could be anything: an old pair of shoes, an idea or belief, a relationship, a habit. Maybe it is a bad thing, maybe it is a good thing. Now imagine you have released that thing. What would that be like?
  • Home is… Homelessness is…

Writing 3

  • Write about beauty.
  • Write a letter to a five-year-old explaining something big and serious: like death or divorce or racism or religion.
  • Write a versus piece — cats versus dogs, right versus wrong, coffee versus tea.