The prompt is: compassion.
Take the prompt, then twist it, seeing it with compassion, as someone other than yourself or normal perspective.
Scars remind us of where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate where we are going.
David Rossi, “Criminal Minds” television show
The following is by Writers in the Grove member, Patti Bond.
I wish people would be
happy all around us.
I wish the world’s population
would stop fighting and putting
fellow human beings down.
I wish we would be
content.
I wish we would be
heard by all people.
I wish we would listen
to the needs of each other.
I wish we would see people
for who they are.
I wish miracles would happen
every day and that they could
be seen by everyone.
I wish peace and tranquility
for all.
During the 2017 NaNoWriMo event in November, Writers in the Grove members offer these prompts to provide inspiration and incentive to keep you going during the self-competition to write 50,000 words in 30 days. You may find NaNoWriMo prompts from previous years and prompts from our weekly workshops.
Today’s NaNoWriMo prompt is:
Choose an object in a room or scene and tell the story of what happens (or has happened over the years) from the object’s perspective and voice. The goal is to treat an object as a character.
If you are participating in NaNoWriMo, or wish to, Writers in the Grove offers an extensive range of NaNoWriMo tips and techniques to help you through the month long writing project.
The prompt this week was to write from an alternative perspective. The quote to get us started was:
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The prompt is to use the above to write from the perspective of a dog.
The October prompt-a-month for our Writers in the Grove members is:
Telephone
The deadline for submissions is 11/1/2017. Submissions will be published during the next 30 days.
Writers in the Grove members may hand in their submissions during the workshops or use our members only submission form. Check out the guidelines and instructions for submissions in the announcement.
The prompt this week is:
What cost plastic?
The following is by Writers in the Grove member, MaryJane Nordgren, inspired by the prompt to pick a color and write about it.
a special red-orange-brown
blended in sunset glory
singing of autumn
glowing rich, warm, and heartfelt
The following was written by Writers in the Grove member Lorelle VanFossen based upon the prompt to pick a color and write about it.
Drifting down, white ash coated my world in silvery gray.
Each step pressed centuries of trees into black footsteps.
The second prompt today was to pick a color and write about it.
Today’s prompt was inspired by the NPR This American Life’s story “Really Long Distance.” A survivor of the Japanese Tsunami rebuilt his home and added a disconnected payphone to his garden. People come from around the country to “talk” to those they’ve lost. Called the “wind telephone,” mostly men use the phone to say the things they feel they can’t say to others.
Take this in any direction you wish.
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