prompts

Sunday: If you were conducting an interview; knowing the normal questions people ask; what would you eliminate and what would you include? What’s the reasoning behind your questions?

Monday: Fill in the blank: I was sure that someday I would________; but now I’d never think of doing that. Why?

Tuesday: You are in a movie theater or a drive in (Pick one), What sights, sounds, smells do you have? What people are around you? What movie are you seeing? What’s in the theater or outside if your at the drive-in? Look at everything. Where are the exits, what’s on the ceilings, is there a balcony?

Wednesday: Create a timeline of you and your best friend. When did you meet, things you did together, places you went. Are you still still best friends? Why or why not? Do you have one or more best friends?

Thursday: He said, She said. You and your spouse write timelines of from when you first met till now. Do you remember them the same way? What’s different? The same?

Friday: If you could only write one letter to one person before you die, who would it be and what would you say?

Saturday: What was your “ah-ha” experience? Write about something you just couldn’t grasp and then all of a sudden the light bulb went off and you said Ah-ha! now I get it.

4-Bonus questions:

-What things are there to do in the town you live in? Do you do them? Why or why not? Think about what tourist do when they come, what do they do? If you didn’t know someone how would you direct them to have a good time if they came to your town?

-Go get out one photo that you haven’t looked at for at least 10 years or longer. What memories does it bring back? Good or bad? (Try not to think too much about the photo you are picking, just pick one real quick).

-Become your pet for a day (in your mind); how do you conduct yourself? What activities do you do all day? Do you feel you like what you are doing and who you are doing things with?

-Do you have a secret language that only you and another person share? Like a special look and only you two would know what your each thinking. Maybe a pinky code, a special nod of the head or whatever it maybe. Write about it and tell how it became about.