157. What Time is It? Write about the time of day it is right now. What are people doing? What do you usually do at this time each day? At 7pm on a weekend, there are a variety of activities that people could be doing. A young person might be going to the library to […]
156. Swish, Buzz, Pop: Create a poem that uses Onomatopoeia. Nope, no poem here. In researching onomatopoeia words, I was surprised to find that OMG (Oh my Gawd) is considered is the same class as POW, Splat, and oops. Just this year I learned on TikTok (yes learning things on TikTok is a thing) from
155. Aromatherapy: Write about scents you just absolutely love. Walking around my college campus, I would occasionally get a whiff of some divine scent so I would follow it until I found an un-assuming bush with tiny white flowers. The yummy smell wouldn’t last long in a season but every time my nose caught the
154. Twenty-One: Write about your 21st birthday. At the beginning of the summer when I turned 21, I drove with my then-fiancé across the country to re-locate him to Carnegie-Mellon University where he would continue his phD in Chemistry. After a long-distance trek I realized I didn’t want to marry this person and so by
153. Shaping Up: Write something that makes a shape on the page…ie: a circle, a heart, a square, etc. Synesthesia is when one sense is experienced by another sense so I often think and feel in shapes and colors. A physical sensation can get translated to falling gold glitter and the mention of a city gets
