Writing and Healing Prompt: Choose a Word

This follows from last week’s writing prompt and also from coming across a post recently by Sharon Bray. She’s an author and teacher who posts weekly writing prompts at her site, Writing Through Cancer; she wrote a lovely post in January about choosing a word for the entire year.

My notion is that after you’ve looked at some key words you tend to use, you can decide to be more intentional about what word or words you’d like to use—or perhaps what words you’d like to explore.

You can consciously choose a word (or two) that you want to explore and consider and define.

Here are some possible words:

contentment, delight, patience, kindness, healing, recovery, grief, sorrow, peace, reprieve, time, impermanence, death, love, compassion, success, regret, guilt,  meditation, happiness.

But it could be any word.

Periodically, I’ll ask students to choose a word for our writing catalyst for the day. The other day one student chose omnipotent. Another chose vitriolic. Another chose divulge.

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Sharon Bray’s post is at Writing Through Cancer.  She chooses the word heart. And I like how she puts an image of a heart in a frame on her desk as a reminder.

The photo is mine. The word card is from 16 Guidelines.  But it would also be easy, of course, to make cards.