Whimsical Writing Prompts

…sometimes I wake up sad. Writing helps.

May 29, 2024

Yesterday the sun wasn’t shining. The day was a furious storm. I was happy. It was the opposite of pathetic fallacy.

Today the sun is shining. I put on all my bright colours.

I made a smoothie for my eldest. I snuggled my dog. I kissed my partner. Today I drove instead of walking. I wasn’t late…but I felt late?

I woke up sad. My dreams were full of me not understanding the customers, getting the orders wrong, strange sandwich requests. It wasn’t restful.

I wrote back and forth with my best friend. She sent me a picture of a sad/angsty cloud plushie. It was perfect. Her phone autocorrected cloud of angst, to cloud of ants. She sent me an article about a cloud of insects. I love her. Her not trying to cheer me up, it helped.

Today is prompt day. I’m trying to find the whimsy. That helps too. Having a side purpose. Unrelated to money, or being someone.

I wrote a tiny story based on the lovely visual prompts that

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created.

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232. Tiny People in the Park in the Middle of the Day

Dear reader, Today we are writing tiny stories for tiny people. Tiny people are the countless, anonymous people who pass through our worlds everyday. You see them walking down the street when you sat at a cafe window. You see them on the buses and the trains. You seem them waiting under the traffic light. They are the other tables at the restaurant. Their…

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And the person who brings flowers to the book shop just arrived and brightened my day with a short chat and her gorgeous flower art.

Now I’m ready to write the prompts for the week. I loved writing the micro fiction this past week, having a precise word count gave me a structure and a gentle restriction that was good for my writing. I think this week I’m just going to…I don’t know, we’ll see what happens below. (Ooh spoiler! Looks like dialogues!)

Whimsical Prompts

Wrote the prompts (done)
Write a dialogue between two birds.
Write a dialogue between a tired barista and a person ordering something strange
Write a dialogue between a pilot and a child passenger
Write a dialogue between a parent and a graduating student at a gas station
Write a dialogue between a tree and a flower
Write a dialogue between a piece of paper and a pen

Heart,

Wake

(I feel less sad, and not so overwhelmed)

Whimsical Writing with Wake

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