“I Just woke up”

 

“I just woke up with a cat on my face.”

“I just woke up to the meaty smack of flesh hitting stone.”

“I just woke up to a bright new beginning.”

That’s what my brain decided to write at 3:30 a.m. instead of sleeping.

 

Sometimes writing comes easy. Other times, we find the right time, the right place, and the right mood; only to stare at the page with minds as blank as the page itself.

 

That’s where writing prompts come in. Any time you catch your muses sleeping, pick a prompt from this journal, and see where it takes you.

 

“I just woke up, and my teeth were gone.”

 

Maybe “I” am an old man, and my dentures have disappeared again. I’m at my home, and I know my grandchildren love to play with my fake teeth. So, I write about flexing my stiff joints and hobbling down the stairs to see what the little whipper snappers have come up with for my poor fake chompers this time.

OR, maybe “I” am a daring adventurer in a haunted forest, and I’ve fallen victim to the evil tooth fairies. How will I track them down and reclaim my stolen teeth before they use them in their dark ritual to summon the bone demon?

OR, maybe “I” was a tarnished fork, and I just woke up to my new life as a spoon after being sold as scrap to a smith.

 

Let your imagination run wild. Sometimes all it needs is a little prompt.