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Writing Prompts: Your Own Personal Best (and Worst) of 2021
This week’s writing prompts are about wrapping up the year and setting intentions for the one ahead
It’s List Season — that wonderful time of year when we’re pelted by Top 10 Bests of everythings, and our music apps joyfully judge us based on what songs we belted out the most in our cars when we thought no one was watching. (Just me?)
Personally, I like a moment of reflection at the end of a year. It feels even more useful to me than a list of New Year’s resolutions I’m sure to ditch by February. And this was yet another very perplexing year for this odd little planet we live on. How was it for you? Let’s write it out.
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Looking to set aside some writing time this week? Please join me and my colleague Harris Sockel for our upcoming open writing hour on Thursday, December 16, 5:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. PT. We’ll have optional prompts and writing-friendly music. All you have to do is join us on Zoom and set aside some time for your writing. See you there!
Brief programming note: We are taking a much-needed break to rest (and hope that you can too!) for the last two weeks of December. Write Here writing prompts will be back in January 2022! See you then!
THIS WEEK’S PROMPTS
Your Own Personal 2021 Summary
’Tis the season for wrap-ups and “best of” lists. So what’s yours? Top 10 things you did this year? Or top three things you’d love to leave behind? Or write it out in prose: What was this year — personally or professionally or globally or emotionally — in your world?
The One-Word New Year’s Vision Board
Say what you will about New Year’s resolutions, but there’s something compelling about setting some intentions for the year ahead. What’s the one word you’d like 2022 to be about for you? This can be something concrete or more of a feeling or idea. Why is this word what you’re hoping for?
It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Or maybe it’s the worst time of the year for you. The holiday season can be exciting! Sparkly! Fun! And it can also be fraught! Exhausting! Overwhelming! Set a piece of writing during the holiday season. This can be fiction or poetry. It can also be memoir, a journal entry, or just freewriting.
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