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.
The prompt today was:
It was never loving that emptied the heart, nor giving that emptied the purse.
The September prompt-a-month for our Writers in the Grove members is:
Anticipation
The deadline for submissions is 10/1/2017. 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.
In a lifetime, your sense of time changes. As a child, we’d claim each month, “I’m four and a HALF!”
There is a drastic difference between psychological and physical time, and even philosophical time.
Write about a time concept, experience, or your thoughts on your sense of time.
The prompt this week is based upon the quote by Mahatma Gandhi:
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
The August prompt-a-month for our Writers in the Grove members is:
The Relationship
The deadline for submissions is 9/1/2017. 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 asks you to reflect upon a reflective surface. Let your story be something about a reflection or reflective surface.
The prompt this week was purposely vague.
Have you ever lived in a home with an attic or basement.
What about it?
This weeks prompt was introduced via a story related by one of our members who had been traveling overseas. As she was about to embark on the long return flight home to the US, she sent a short text her family using her smartphone. We’ve likely all experienced doing battle with the auto-correct function while texting on our phones, as it attempts to interpret what it thinks we are trying to say.
In this case she texted her family that the “flight was delayed.” A short while later on the plane she noticed that the auto-correct function had changed her intended text from “flight was delayed” to “wife was cremated.” At this point she no longer had internet access and so was not able to send a correction to her likely bewildered family!
Write about intended or unintended corrections in your life either made or received by you.
The prompt this week was on favorites. Do you have the experience of being the favorite child? When raising children, it’s hard to be equal. Did you end up having a favorite even though you didn’t know it at the time. What does favoritism do to a family and relationships? What about work? Are there favorites at work, the ones the boss always turns to for help or wisdom? How can we treat others, even our own family, equally?
Write whatever comes to you on this topic.
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