Friday Write #056
Greetings, writers—
Today’s prompts are ones I sent out in 2021, long before Good Ideas came to Substack.
This is for two reasons: first, I decided that instead of writing today, I would go apple-picking and then swimming in a very cold river (if ducking oneself a couple times while hollering and nearly being swept away by the current can be considered swimming); and second, I’m writing new prompts for Monday’s Zoom writing session, which I encourage you to attend! It’s fun, quick, and rewarding, and you have the Zoom invite in your email already. If you can’t find it, post a comment or hit reply and I’ll send it to you.
7 pm! Monday the 16th! We’ll write together.
And now, onto the prompts:
—In an interview with the poet Edward Hirsch in the Paris Review, the very first question asked was “What’s so funny?”
Write a scene that begins with someone asking that question.
—In his Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke writes this:
"[W]e must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us..."
What difficult thing does your character trust in? (Your character, of course, could always be you.)
Happy writing,
Emily