Turn up your iPod or radio. The first song that pops up on shuffle or on the station, use it to freewrite. Listen to it and write as you listen. Or you can listen all the way through, turn it off and start writing.
A Brave Writer’s Life in Brief
Thoughts from my jungle to yours
Friday Freewrite: Best buds!
February 26th, 2010
How would you feel if someone told you that you were his or her best friend?
Friday Freewrite: If I could go anywhere…
February 5th, 2010
Spin a globe if you have one and then close your eyes. Use your pointer finger and point it at the globe to stop it. Wherever your finger lands, write about traveling to that place. Of course, you may not know anything about it, but that’s okay. For this freewrite, use the place you point to as a fantasy prompt. Pretend about the place. You can make up everything (from inhabitants to languages to vegetation to special powers)! Or if you do happen to know about the place, you can use the information you already have.
This is a freewrite so be free!
Friday Freewrite: If I did it differently
January 29th, 2010
Think of a regret. What do you wish you had done differently? Write about that.
Friday Freewrite: What you own…
January 22nd, 2010
What is your most indispensable possession and why?
Friday Freewrite: Tongue Twisters
January 15th, 2010
Pcik a letter and string together a sentence with as many words that start with that sound as possible. If you run out, pick another letter. Don’t worry about sense! Be nonsensical. Ready, go!
Friday Freewrite: Snow memories!
January 8th, 2010
Write about snow: playing in it, skiing on it, watching it fall.
Conversely, if you have never experienced snow, write about rain!
Friday Freewrite: Light
December 11th, 2009
Freewrite about light (contrast it with dark, contrast it with heavy). Think about it as illumination (physical as in the sun, or personal, as in understanding). Rhyme it, use it as a verb, a noun, an adjective. Think of all the ways the word “light” can be used and understood. Let any one of them lead you in any direction. Run with it.
Friday Freewrite: Double Life
December 3rd, 2009
You lead a double life. Describe the life no one knows about (remember, this is fiction!).