seedbank

The Seedbank is a rotating collection of ideas, images, and writing exercises intended to spur your imagination and spark new directions in your writing practice.  Some, but not all, are related to place; some are born here on the where of it, while others are visiting from the work of others.  Feel free to contribute your own favorite prompts (email me, summerwood@thewhereofit.com, and please credit their author).  If something you see here inspires work that you’d like to share, send that, too — I’ll post it on a Readers Respond page.

 

WEEK OF MARCH 16

 

*       Write the moment of embarrassment.  Focus on the physical.

 

*       Start with WARM WATER and go from there.

 

*       Remember a time in your childhood or adolescence when you did something bad; something you knew you weren’t supposed to do.  Remember the place where you did this.  Now describe that place in great sensual detail.  Resist revealing the action – that bad thing that you did – for as long as you possibly can.