PROMPT: Positive Example

Daily writing prompt
Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

I’m not sure I understand the question. I generally associate the feeling of love with positivity, but the wording suggests a contrast to the negative examples of feeling loved.

Also, not sure whether “where” is meant to refer to a part of the body, a city, a region, a country, a room of the house, etc.

PROMPT: Communicate Online

Daily writing prompt
In what ways do you communicate online?

Like everyone, with a great deal less civility.

Also, with the recognition that no one is trapped by societal convention, so one must be concise, or no one will take it in.

Also, I end sentences with prepositions more.

PROMPT: Creative

Daily writing prompt
How are you creative?

The answer depends upon stress.

If it’s, “How are YOU creative?” then I think the question is a little insulting and I wouldn’t dignify it with a response.

If: “How are you CREATIVE?” (then it’s missing a comma before the last word, but) I’ll just say, “Very well, thanks for asking.”

If: “How ARE you creative?” Then I’ll assume it’s as opposed to how I was creative in the past, and would reply, “Better, thanks for asking.”

If: “HOW are you creative?” The answer is, of course, “practice!”

PROMPT: Coolest Thing

Daily writing prompt
What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?

I once found a $100 bill half frozen into the snow on a random stretch of sidewalk in a not-so-great neighborhood. It’s only now occurring to me that it was literally the coolest thing I’ve ever found because it was encased in ice and snow. I acknowledge it’s not so “cool” in the colloquial sense of the word.

PROMPT: Favorite Word

What’s your favorite word?

“Sword” is “words” with a simple swap where the word leapfrogs its ass, and yet they are unrhymable with each other. That’s a word with some sort of voodoo magic.

PROMPT: Use Regularly

Daily writing prompt
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?

“Facetious.” But I only use it so much because I am it so much.

PROMPT: Grudge

Daily writing prompt
Are you holding a grudge? About?

No, but it sounds like fun — starts with a “GRR” and rhymes with “fudge.”

PROMPT: Writing

Daily writing prompt
What do you enjoy most about writing?

EPIPHANIES.

But, if you think about it, writing is miraculous. In the scheme of gifts that nature grants, it is way out beyond left field. Encoding ideas and images in simple characters in a way that can evoke emotional or cognitive responses in readers is kind of a superpower. (As is reading.)

PROMPT: Word [Overly Used]

Daily writing prompt
What is a word you feel that too many people use?

“Nazi” and other terms used to hyperbolize the villainy of those who are, at most, moderately villainous. It allows people to dismiss – rather than debate – beliefs with which they are in disagreement, while – simultaneously – it diminishes understanding of the extremes of horror the world has known.

Wen Fu 9 [文赋九] “The Whip” by Lu Ji [陆机] [w/ Audio]

Language can be complex, reason may sprawl,
And words don't always seem to point the way.
Extremes aren't always clear and distinct.
Overhauls are not always an upgrade.
The gist may dwell in a key phrase or two --
Those words the whip that make it race or stay.
Though multitudinous words are in place
They must do more than roar, hiss, or bray.
Overuse of the whip exhausts the horse --
Keep the impulse to whip too much at bay.

The original lines in Simplified Chinese are:

或文繁理富,    而意不指适。
极无两致, 尽不可益。
立片言而居要,乃一篇之警策。
虽众辞之有条,必待兹而效绩。
亮功多而累寡,故取足而不易。