Writing Prompt Wednesday

A Little Something to Get the Juices Flowing!

I have always written and given myself writing assignments. Maybe it is the teacher in me — or maybe I just like the springboard of a starting point even if it is just one word.

How you see the world and how you tell your stories is important. Your light needs to shine through and writers do this by opening our hearts. This light is truth. YOU need to shine through. If truth scares you, especially writing in front of students, you can write first and then selectively share what is most powerful and appropriate for your lesson. You can also choose lines from authors your students will connect with and borrow their famous lines to help your student writers find and write their own truths.

Finding your truth can be like a game of hide and seek. One way to seek your truth is to write about a time you experienced extreme emotion — happiness, grief, anger, shame. You can always destroy it later, but the act of writing your story can open your heart and show your light to yourself .

Here is today’s prompt: