SAVE THE DATE:
Please consider joining us for three virtual writing sessions. Information about how to register will be announced by email closer to the date(s).
- Sunday, May 31 3-5pm CST
- Click here to register
- Sunday, June 28 3-5pm CST
- Sunday, August 2 3-5pm CST
WRITING PROMPTS:
WEEK ONE:
Write about a place that feels like home.
Write about a plant you have loved.
Let me tell you about my grandchildren.
It was a dark and stormy night…
Put down what you’re holding. Look, observe it. write what you see.
Write about a time things didn’t go according to plan.
Medicine can be heavy, but it doesn’t always have to be. Write about a time you couldn’t stop laughing. (Srishti Mathur)
WEEK TWO:
Write about the shoes that didn’t fit.
Write about someone who was important to you when you were a child. (David Thoele)
Find your inner AI and introduce yourself to it.
Write a love poem from one inanimate object to another, seemingly unrelated, inanimate object. E.g. see Sarah Key’s love poem from a toothbrush to a bicycle wheel.
Every life has several chapters – what is this chapter?
What is keeping you up at night lately?
Write a thank you letter to someone from your training or current practice.
WEEK THREE
Tell me about your person.
Write about your day before you start work.
Write about something that brings you to tears.
Write a story from the perspective of a stuffed animal, come to life.
Open up to page 20 of the last book you read and write something inspired by what you read.
Tell us about a time you saw RED.
Write about a patient whose official record tells one story, but whose life tells another.
WEEK FOUR:
Explore the gap between a diagnosis and the person receiving it – what is lost or gained when a disease gets a name?
What stays with you? Not the dramatic cases – the quiet ones. The patient whose name surfaces at odd moments years later and why.
Think about a time you made a mistake. What was your inner dialogue? What story were you telling yourself?
Write about a time when you were astonished. (Bruce Campbell)
Write about a mundane event using a creative voice.
If you could leave one piece of you behind in a box, stow it away, be free of it, what would it be?
Find an object you find beautiful and write about it. Allow your writing to expand into metaphor if it wants to! (Brittany Bettendorf)
