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Toolbox: Some Writing Exercises

Here are some writing prompts to help you dive into your own words:

1. Describe the ultimate refuge for yourself. Explain, in detail, why and how this place (inside or out, real or imaginary) serves as such a refuge for you (or could serve as a refuge).

2. Pick a piece of furniture or a piece of clothing from your life, and use this object as a symbol for some part of you. Write your life as this shirt or table or shoe or dishwasher.

3. Write a letter from the one, real or imaginary, singular or plural, who loves you best. Praise yourself lavishly, seeing yourself through the eyes of one who feels unconditional love for your being.

4. Make a list of life changing moments: moments when something suddenly shifted in your experience or perception of the world, or moments when long-coming change finally coalesced. Then take one moment from your life, and write the story of this moment in your life.

5. Take a conflict in your life, something you feel of two minds about, and write a dialogue between the two sides, seeking some sort of reconciliation.

6. Imagine going to a room you liked as a child, and describe this room thoroughly. Then follow the details into some story that took place or could take place in that room.

7. Write a letter to your future. Have your future write back to you.