March 10: Everlasting Love

Do you believe in everlasting love? What about love at first site? What about past life connections? Write a scene where two strangers meet and fall in love.

March 9: Daylight Saving Time

Write a scene or a short story about Daylight saving Time. If Daylight is a person, what does he or she look like? Do they have super powers and if so, what are they? Why did Time need to be saved?  Make up something wild and crazy. Submit it to a fiction writing contest.

March 8: Writing Prompt — Simplicity

Often life gets complicated and what we want most is simplicity. Write a scene about a complication in your life or in the life of a fictional character. Write that scene without the complication. Which scene is more interesting? Is there beauty in simplicity or is it boring?

March 7 Writing Prompt: Chaos vs Order

Some people thrive on order and others are quite content to live with chaos. In which camp do you reside? Write a scene where someone enters and upends your comfort zone, turning order into chaos or chaos into order simply by pushing a button.

March 6: Writing Prompt

Family can be a blessing and a curse. Which was your family? Has it made you stronger or sent you running to therapy? List five ways your family has affect you and your life. Pick the most important one and write about it.

March 5 Writing Prompt:

When and how did you lose your innocence? Who was involved? Where did it happen? Write about it in the 3^rd person, as if it happened to one of your characters.

March 4: The Need to Escape

Writing Prompt: Many films have been about the necessity or the need to escape. Have you ever been in a situation that made you feel trapped? Perhaps you have been held hostage.

Write about that experience.

 

March 3

Writing Prompt: Fear of failure is a common theme. Fear of success is less common, but it can also sabotage our efforts. Are you or is your character afraid to fail or succeed? Write about the incident that may have triggered this fear.

March 2 Writing Prompt: The Will to Survive

Writing Prompt: The will to survive is a popular theme in literature. Write about how this theme has played out in your life or in the life of someone you know.  What characteristics does someone need to have this will?

In March, while the winds are blowing, I thought it would be interesting to think about various themes that play out in our lives or the lives of our fictional characters. For example, such universal ideas as injustice, isolation, and good versus bad, are universal concepts that have been repeated throughout history. Themes show up in a variety of ways. They can be life’s lessons, repetitive patterns, or insights we have about ourselves and others. Throughout the month of March, see how you resonate with the various prompts and see if you can discover themes that affect your life and the life of your characters.

March 1

Writing Prompt: A theme is a message that stretches through a book or novel or a period of time. What is the major theme that has played out in your life?