24 writing prompts to get you going on your memoir
I meet with my writers’ group once a month; we share our writing, critique each other, laugh, eat, and love being together. We schedule and coordinate our monthly gatherings using a Facebook group where I’ve been dubbed honorary President. (It’s because I have computer skillz, yo.) For each month, I include some random writing prompts with the invite, and you know what? I just realized I now have a decent list of these because we’ve been meeting for several years now. Here you go, enjoy!
Writing prompts for your memoir:
- explore your immense love for parent-teacher conferences
- write about the last time you baked a pie
- open a journal entry, share the first several lines, and expound
- describe your workout routine
- what’s straight up rad about your life right now
- when was the last time you learned to do something new
- what happened to your long lost love
- are you surviving the school year
- write about that time you drove across the entire country to live in Canada during the bleak and cold winter in spite of your SAD
- profess your love of cats on the internet
- I start to write by…
- My writing environment works for me because…
- The last time I had a dream and tried to write about it, but it just didn’t come out like Megan’s dream posts…
- write about a conversation that had an impact on your life
- write about one of the memorable nights of a writing class
- write about your biggest challenge right now
- write your own obituary
- which parent are you most like
- write a summer memory
- write about a trip to Disneyland
- write a letter to an impactful high school teacher
- what did you dream about last night
- what did Megan dream about last night
- what does your life look like through the “eyes” of the traffic camera at an intersection near your home