Fab Feb Writing Prompts – Day Nineteen

“It’s getting closer! Are you ready?”

What is it that’s coming, and yes, are you ready? What is it, and what is entailed in ‘getting ready’ for it? Is it a road trip, your retirement from work, birth of a child, or moving into your new home?

Or could it be a holiday, Christmas, Easter, or a birthday, yours or that of a significant other? These events can definitely cause a bit of emotion, excitement or stress, and the need to get things organised for them. Going to school, uni, or your child doing one or other of them for the first time, more things that need a lot of thought, perhaps.

Or could the ‘thing’ that’s on it’s way be a sad or bad thing? Getting divorced, or your child leaving home. Or could it be the anniversary of the death of a loved one, that can be an emotional time, that requires emotional readiness.

So this writing prompt may inspire tears, so take care – hanky or tissues at the ready, and hopefully someone close by to help, if needed. 

Getting emotional is not always a bad thing, necessarily, but it can be, at times. We all must take care for ourselves, and look out for our emotional well being. Getting to the guts of things, in our writing though, that’s an important thing too. It’s a matter of weighing things up, and thinking hard about it all.

Looking at this photo, maybe this man has to get ready for the hay fever season, and needs to make sure he has his appropriate meds, and tissues, lots of tissues! That’s not funny, for sufferers, but it is still funny, if not affected … Or maybe he’s forgotten to get flowers for his loved one on Valentines Day and now that he’s remembered, hasn’t got the money to pay for them … Who knows? Take a guess, and write about it!

 So the writing prompt for today is the phase: “It’s getting closer! Are you ready?”

I hope this writing prompt is useful to you, in your writing, and please, if you are enjoying these prompts, and finding them useful, why not share the good news with some writing friends! 

One prompt will never lead to exactly the same response, from my quite broad experience. The poetry reading event I help organise on the last Sunday of every month, has a small competition, using five words, with a bottle of wine for the winner, with the winner chosen by our Guest Poet, always a fun time!