Daily Writing Prompt #15

Childlike wonder

Welcome to September 🍂

Today’s prompts are centered around the idea of seeing the world through a child’s eyes.

Fiction prompt: Pick a core memory from childhood (sub ~8 y/o) and describe it in the way a child would recount it. If details are missing, make them up.
Poetry prompt: Take something peculiar that adults do and describe it from the perspective of a child.
Non-fiction prompt: When did you feel you were no longer a child? When did you feel like you had become an adult?

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Yesterday’s submissions

Fun to read your clever uses of yesterday’s list of phrases!

Writing inspo of the day

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou