In Part 2 we built the basic blocks of your pledges using some simple exercises to get your creative juices flowing. We finished by sorting them into piles of ideas. Those thoughts and feelings are the resources your brain uses to bring everything together in your head.
In this section, we use a similar method to develop entire paragraphs. Download the Writing Prompts Workbook, and continue with this new thought experiment.
Paragraph Prompt Exercises
While the exercises in Part 2 are simmering in the back of your brain, you can play with these writing prompts. That practice will have prepared you to let your responses flow onto the page. Nevertheless, it might be a bit of a challenge at first.
One set of prompts include a selection from each of the Past, Present, and Future sections. For each writing prompt answer with three to five sentences. Allow10 minutes for each prompt or thirty minutes per page.
If you’d like to create your own prompt pages, divide a blank sheet of paper into thirds. Then choose one prompt from each list below and print it in one of the thirds.
Once again, the idea is to throw words at the paper rather than writing the perfect paragraph. If you find that ten minutes allows time to go back and fiddle with the text, set a shorter timer for future exercises. Quantity, versus quality