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: 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.

“To a Husband” by Amy Lowell

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River
Are your words in the dark, Beloved.

Wen Fu 3 [文赋三]: “The Writing Process” by Lu Ji [陆机] [w/ Audio]

After choosing one's scope of thought,
Turn the words and note their order.
Embrace the hot ones, feel their burn;
Knock on lines and hear their timbre.
Use the branches to shake the leaves,
And waves can be traced to their source.
Make the hidden come visible;
Make the difficult seem simple.
A tiger's transformation startles --
Birds take flight on sight of dragons.
Sometimes words nest into each other;
Sometimes, jaggedly, they won't mesh.
With a clear, contemplative mind
Hordes filter through to easy speech.
Heaven and Earth contained within:
All things flow from the brush with ease.
Starting timidly with dry mouth,
Ending with a wandering brush.
Meaning is borne by a stout trunk,
Language hangs like leaf and fruit.
Make words and intended meaning match
As moods show clearly on a face.
When happiness comes, laugh & smile,
And with sorrow let loose a sigh.
At times words flow spontaneously;
At times one bites one's brush, musing.

The Original in Simplified Chinese:

然后选义按部,考辞就班。
抱暑者咸叩, 怀响者毕弹。
或因枝以振叶,或沿波而讨源。
或本隐以之显,或求易而得难。
或虎变而兽扰,或龙见而鸟澜。
或妥帖而易施,或岨峿而不安。
罄澄心以凝思,眇众虑而为言。
笼天地于形内,挫万物于笔端。
始踯躅于燥吻,终流离失所于濡翰。
理扶质以立干,文垂条而结繁。
信情貌之不差,故每变而在颜。
思涉乐其必笑,方言哀而已叹。
或操觚以率尔,或含毫而邈然。