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“Write What You Don’t Know”

Prompt Archive

When we teach an in-person workshop, everybody reads what they wrote aloud. To give you a sense of community as you write solo, we’ve included this Prompt Archive, so you can hear what other people wrote to the prompts in Write What You Don’t Know.

And if you’d like more community, please join us on Zoom for the Prompt of the Week. It’s free!

These pieces were written in the same amount of time we gave you, and read aloud by the writers immediately afterward, unedited. They will give you an idea of the power generated by writing in the Imaginative Storm!

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Session 1: Spin the Kaleidoscope of Your Mind

Other People's Words
"I Don't Remember "
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Session 2: Let Rip

"I Effing Hate . . ."
"I Effing Love . . ."
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Session 3: Common Senses

Emotion in the Body
Activate Your Nondominant Senses
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Session 4: Go There

The Negative Space
Infuse a Setting with Story
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Session 5: Elemental Alchemy

"Everything Is . . ."
At One with an Element
The Forces that Made It
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Session 6: Socialese

Eating Together
Initiation into a Tribe
A Defining Word or Catchphrase
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Session 7: Tender Spots

Dressing Up
An Unattractive Physical Characteristic
Empathy with a Villain
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Session 8: Take Yourself Back

Roles
Take Yourself Back
The Need that Drives You
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Session 9: There’s No Story If Nothing Changes

Sources of Energy
Troublesome Technology
The Desire Line
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Session 10: The Oxymoronic Inversion

How Needy Are You?
Oppositions
The Magnetic Paradox