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114 Things To Write About
114 Things To Write About
58. Google search your own name. Write about the search result that is closest to your name
but isnt you.
59. You are a customer lying face down on the floor during a bank robbery. Describe the
robbery from this vantage point.
60. Your favorite quote and what it means to you.
61. What was the most recent incident in your life that made you upset?
62. What was the most recent incident tin your life that made you laugh?
63. Describe your best friend.
64. Describe Heaven.
65. Its 2100 and the world is running out of fresh water. Describe a typical day.
66. You wake up in an open field wearing an astronaut suit and lying on a surfboard. What
happened?
67. Your dogs last dream
68. Describe one or all of the following; your favorite TV newscasters hair, your favorite jeans,
where will you be exactly one year from this moment, the last time you cheated.
69. How is hand-held technology (i.e., cell phones, iPods) affecting public social behavior and
interaction in the public space? How has it impacted everyday street life and our ability to meet
and deal with strangers?
70. Describe a trip to an amusement park, focusing on the colors, sounds, smells, and tastes of
the day.
71. Youre confined to your bed for three months due to a serious illness. What do you miss,
and whats the first thing youll do once they let you outside?
72. Tell the story of a time you lost an argument.
73. Write a love letter to a person you dislike.
74. What wont you touch with a 10-foot pole? Why?
75. Everyone has a special talent. Whats your special skill?
76. Five ideas for a novel that youll never write.
97. You are in a department store in another city, and you see one of your teachers weeping.
Write the scene.
98. Five things you see out the nearest windowwith as much detail as possible.
99. Re-create your earliest childhood memory.
100. James Joyce said that a mans errors are his portals of discovery. What mistakes have led
to epiphanies for you?
101. Where do you go to escape?
102. Write about what you are worrying about right now.
103. Through a freak illness, you lose one of your senses. Which sense is it, what happens to
you, an dhow do you deal with it?
104. Put your iPod on random shuffle, write down the lyric of the first song that comes on, and
use it as an opening line.
105. Choose a family story for which you were not present. Choose the narrator of the piece
(your mother, your older brother, your great-great-great aunt) and writ e the event in his or her
voice.
106. A lie you told and got away with.
107. Create an imaginary friend (human or not).
108. Describe in detail an everyday object a piece of fruit, a water bottle, or your beat-up old
wallet.
109. Imagine yourself at age eight. What would you tell yourself?
110. Imagine yourself at age eighty. What would you tell yourself?
111. What is public and what is private? What should be public and what should be private?
What do these terms mean now?
112. Write ten sayings for fortune cookies.
113. Sitting in a single location for 20 minutes, take notes focusing exclusively on the sounds
you can hear.
114. A time you made someone cry. A time someone made you cry.