Tag Archives: writing prompt

NaPoWriMo: Day 16

Posted on April 15, 2016 by 1sojournal

NaPoWriMo: Day 16 destination, nearer, thorny, disappear, words, describe Okay, we made it over the halfway hump. Now it’s all sliding toward the finish. In the song I’ve chosen for today’s musical inspiration, a woman describes her life by finding … Continue reading →

Posted in NaPoWriMo: Day 16 | Tagged bad day, good day, halfway hump, NaPoWriMo, poem a day, Simon and Garfunkel, Slip-Sliding Away, writing prompt | 7 Comments

Wordplay #20

Posted on May 21, 2011 by 1sojournal

Wordplay #20 Tabaret tab-a-ret> striped upholstery fabric: hard-wearing fabric with alternate satin and watered silk stripes. Use: upholstery Strong Cloth Existence Senses that her life is stitched together like tabaret fabric. Periods of smooth moments, spent with others who … Continue reading →

Posted in Wordplay #20 | Tagged one daily observation, Tabaret, Wordplay, Writer's Island, writing prompt | 21 Comments

Journey Stone #26

Posted on February 26, 2011 by 1sojournal

Journey Stone #26 Image Picture created by words on a page. Sometimes a poem, a definition, other times a thought, or a whole train of them, moving on a track that wends its way through this life I improvise … Continue reading →

Posted in Journey Stone #26 | Tagged image, imporvise, Journey Stones, one daily observation, Writer's Island, writing prompt | 10 Comments

Journal Writing Prompt #8

Posted on December 12, 2010 by 1sojournal

Last week, I asked that you do a prompt that suggested you take a look back and make notes about the past week. A week in review is a good way to summarize your experience, but it also provides a … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal Writing Prompt # 8 | Tagged Clarrissa Pinkola Estes, intuition, Journal Writing prompt, personal writing, sorting this from that, what to keep, what to let go of, Women Who Run With Wolves, writing prompt | 10 Comments

Finding Home

Posted on October 16, 2010 by 1sojournal

Attention: Journal Writing Prompts will begin on Monday, October 25. Today I’m not responding to a prompt. Today it’s just me, the words, and an empty page. Guess I’m going back to basics. At least it could be seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Finding Home | Tagged bread crumbs, filling the hole, finding home, hole at center, invasive procedure, questions, reestablishing priorities, some answers, Writer's Island, writing prompt | 37 Comments

Flashback Facilitator

Posted on October 3, 2010 by 1sojournal

For Sunday Scribblings prompt #235 Flashback http://sundayscribblings.blogspot.com/ A flashback is a fast trip back into the past, a moment, or moments of remembering, often experienced as though it were actually happening for the first time. And although that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Flashback Facilitator | Tagged age 4, age 64, flashback, flashbacks, head vs heart, inner child, logic vs association, Memory, Sunday Scribblings, Time Travel, writing prompt | 25 Comments

Fishing Lessons

Posted on September 18, 2010 by 1sojournal

For Writers Island Prompt #21 The Fisherman http://writersisland.wordpress.com/ “Betty!” My father’s voice echoed in my ears. I immediately sat up, wide awake from my afternoon nap. My Dad had died just over fifteen years ago, at home, in a city … Continue reading →

Posted in Fishing Lessons | Tagged Father, Fishing, fishing buddies, grief, left behind, lessons, rod and reel, sorrow, wake up call, Writer's Island, writing prompt | 44 Comments

Not To Prompt, But Then…

Posted on September 11, 2010 by 1sojournal

For Writer’s Island Prompt #20: Last Redwood, Survivorship http://writersisland.wordpress.com/ I have been on a very interesting journey for the past few weeks. I never left home, other than to get groceries, make a few visits, put gas in the … Continue reading →

Posted in But Then... | Tagged avoidance, bottomless pit, home bound, journey, molasses, mud, not to prompt, quicksand, resistance, swampland, Writing Block, writing prompt | 24 Comments

Perfect Imperfection

Posted on August 28, 2010 by 1sojournal

For Writers Island prompt #18: If Only http://writersisland.wordpress.com/ This is what I wrote, on the spur of the moment, the last time I was faced with this prompt: Circling Flashbacks Ah yes, those famous “If Only’s.” Vultures that visit in … Continue reading →

Posted in Perfect Imperfection | Tagged change, depression, downhill slide, Growth, If Only, perfected imperfection, regrets, revisit, upward climb, Vultures, Writer's Island, writing prompt | 29 Comments

Shopping For Resurrection

Posted on July 17, 2010 by 1sojournal

For Writer’s Island prompt #12 reunion http://writersisland.wordpress.com/ Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. __Arthur Schopenhauer I have a real thing about words, if you haven’t noticed. Love playing with them, tearing them … Continue reading →

Posted in Shopping For Resurrection | Tagged gag reflex, gray or blank, re-meeting, reaction, resurrection, reunion, Schopenhauer, shopping, taboo words, Writer's Island, writing prompt | 20 Comments