Little bits of time are all we have most days, especially during the winter holiday season.
Last month I wrote my b.read.crumbs post for non-writers, but writers were invited to eavesdrop. This month I’m reaching out to all of you, and I’m offering a suggestion to get you into or keep you in a writing groove during December.
Truth: I believe that I could write several literary masterpieces if only I had a week or two of uninterrupted time in which to do it. This is an example of how we should never trust our beliefs. The more space a writer has for creative work, the more closet organizing and shelf paper replacing that writer will do.
If you don’t think of yourself as a writer because you don’t enjoy writing and/or you don’t write, please read the above paragraph again. Writers—even the professionals—love having written, but 99.9% of us would rather sleep in a mosquito pit than sit down and put words on paper. So if you aren’t writing for these two reasons, maybe you ARE a writer after all.
However you identify, I extend this challenge or gift or advice or notion: use prompts to write one sentence.
When a minute is all we’ve got for creating, we’ve got to make the best use of it. Keep a tiny little notebook and pen handy. Keep your writing app open or your voice recorder ready or your camera aimed. However you choose to make your notes, keep it close and ready to go.
Yes, you can do it. Yes, it’s still writing even if you only do it in little bits. Yes, it counts. Yes, it’s satisfying.
Here’s how this works:
At the bottom of this post, you’ll find a prompt for every day of December. Grab the prompt and create a sentence, any sentence, about anything that the prompt brings up for you.
Done. Unless…
You want more, but not too much more. I’ve got you covered. You could also
- Write a second sentence
- Write a paragraph
- Write a haiku
- Write a 1, 2, or 3 line poem
- Write a Daily
No matter what else you do, don’t write more than a paragraph. A shortish paragraph.
Now go write a little bit.
- December 1 ~ every beginning is a source of fear
- December 2 ~ why aren’t there any pears?
- December 3 ~ once there was a bottle of spirits
- December 4 ~ makes six dozen
- December 5 ~ ninja Santa
- December 6 ~ jolly, holly, winter folly
- December 7 ~ a flame that never dies
- December 8 ~ wishing you
- December 9 ~ 394.261
- December 10 ~ compare religion to today’s outside temperature
- December 11 ~ up and down a mountain of glitter
- December 12 ~ roses from the snow
- December 13 ~ still not gingerbread
- December 14 ~ the one thing that always ships for free
- December 15 ~ what were you thinking when you bought that
- December 16 ~ half way is not a mark of distinction
- December 17 ~ life lessons from pancakes
- December 18 ~ habibti
- December 19 ~ fundamentally interconnected
- December 20 ~ it never gets any darker than it is right now
- December 21 ~ a reason for light
- December 22 ~ short hand for long story
- December 23 ~ for the rest of us
- December 24 ~ icicles never melt
- December 25 ~ a reason for change
- December 26 ~ ingathering
- December 27 ~ carry the virus
- December 28 ~ another word for pledge
- December 29 ~ wounded, scarred
- December 30 ~ last call
- December 31 ~ every ending is a source of joy
ONE LITTLE THING TO MAKE WRITING CARDS EASIER
Holiday Greetings from Southern Living
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