Since I took to writing about 18 months ago I have loved prompts. Other people’s words inspiring and challenging me to create something and share it. My favourite have been M’s which you can see here which I still try and do when I can.
Towards the back end of last year though I found myself thinking that maybe I should consider doing my own prompts for myself and as part of a process see where that took me. So, I picked up a shiny new notebook that I got for my Birthday and picked up one of my fabulous new Bic pens and started to write whatever came into my head until I had 31 prompts for January.
It was not a particularly long process, and I actually did it sat at my desk at work whilst I was on a rather dull teleconference. I think it was maybe 20 minutes of work. Once I have the 31 I then put each as the header on a page and proceeded to jot down an outline or ideas or thoughts inspired by these prompts. It went surprisingly well and within about 90 minutes I had 31 ideas that I can now turn into something this month. I hope.
Anyway, whether I finish them or not doesnot matter what mattes is that I have a ton of ideas to use as I get chance.
Oh and then after that I had an idea to take my most favourite album ever and use each of the tracks as the tirle for a short piece. I haven;t fleshed that out yet but some point in February I hope to put out a dozen pieces all linked to the ‘Blind Man’s Zoo’ album by 10000 Maniacs.
So, in case you are still reading these are what I came up with for the 31 prompts for January.
- Butterfly
- Firestorm
- Flowers of Autumn
- Electric Dreams
- Once upon a never
- Twice shy
- Turbulence
- Tears of night
- Wednesday
- Last orders
- Overtime
- Samantha
- The cave
- Tomorrow’s forever
- Beyond the night sky
- A place in the dark
- The last summer
- The first winter
- Orbit
- Descent
- Into Madness
- Forever forlorn
- Beyond time
- Malcolm
- Driftwood
- Orbital city one
- Fear of the dark
- Nevermore
- All my yesterday’s
- Dawn’s light
- No more tomorrow
It was a fun exercise and whilst I will still be doing other peoples prompts I enjoyed the feeling of finding all those inspirational thoughts and moments for myself.
Why not try it for yourself and share what you come up with?
