Sunday, August 12, 2012

Writing with Rox Weekly Prompt—The Story You Really Want to Tell

A million trillion things have happened to you this weekend. Thinking and feeling back on today and yesterday, which story do you most feel like telling? What story, however big or small, boring or exciting, do you have an urge (or urgency) to tell/share?

What do I mean exactly? Well...say, you run out in a few minutes and there you run into someone you know at Cub or walking in Uptown or meeting someone for dinner or on the bike path or at Book Club or wherever you are... or your best friend calls, mother, whoever... What is the very first thing you are going to talk about? If you'd like, begin like this: "... I've been dying to tell you that..." or "OMG, guess what?" or "You'll never believe this, but..." or "Hey, I need an ear... would you mind listening to a sort of weird story about what happened to me this weekend?"

Go for it. Tell the whole thing. Don't worry about being boring or sounding dumb. This is the story you want to tell, the thing that happened to you, or with you, or... the story of something you saw or said or did.  You cannot do this wrong. It won't be boring. The only thing to keep in mind is that it must be a story/incident you really feel in your body/mind that you want to share. Take your time. Share here, there, anywhere.


Hope to write with you soon!

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