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