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Thirty
Today is the last day of the month. Free write about the month, and your experience writing this month. Like so many things in my life, I don’t feel like I’ve had time to really concentrate on th...
Twenty-nine
What are you most proud of this year? This is a tough one, because I’m really not proud of where I am in a lot of areas of my life. A lot of it has been happenstance, but I pride myself in my ab...
Twenty-Eight
Thanksgiving leftovers. How much? What did you do with them? I wrote this while watching a TV food show, obviously. Honestly, I don’t think there’s anything you can do with leftover turkey that...
Twenty-seven
What places hold particular allure for you; where might you like to live? Writing in the middle of the night, because I fell asleep during the Packers-Bears game, and am now wide awake. (And also...
Twenty-six
The team that traditionally has had Thanksgiving football is the Lions. Write about Detroit. Have you been there? Would you want to go back? Do you know anyone who is from there, originally? Woul...
Twenty-five
Thanksgiving is tomorrow in the US. Are you travelling? With whom will you eat? If you live somewhere where they celebrated last month, describe what you did. glares North If you live somewhere w...
Twenty-four
It’s the final Tuesday of the month. Do you care? Not really, no. All it means, really, is that next Tuesday will be the first day I haven’t written in a month. Although there’s still a few day...
Twenty-three
Write about being 23. Other than the fact that nobody liked you, write a bit about being 23. What were you doing? Where you were living? Relationship/who were you doing? Let’s see....I was still ...
Twenty-two
Day of historical significance for “US Americans.” Do you know why? Were you alive? (I’m skeptical…) What do you remember? (Bonus on this one for readers from Soviet Canuckistan….) Cheating a bit...
Twenty-one
Major drama between two tow drivers outside to wake up this morning. I don’t even.... I ended up calling the non-emergency phone number because while one left, another seems to be circling the b...
Twenty
Kind of at a low-ebb today. Tysabri in a few hours, and I’m beyond ready for it. This has been an incredibly trying week, and I will never understand how being overbearingly officious makes you...
Nineteen
What opportuntities that you’ve passed up do you regret passing? I’m trying to think of my frame of mind when I wrote this prompt. I mean, there’s stuff that I could have done that would have gre...
Eighteen
I don’t know why this didn’t save yesterday. But it made ti to the blog, which I coped from here...... http://control-h.org/index.php/2015/11/19/eighteen-2/ Who knows? What is your favorite holi...
Seventeen
What normally find attractive in a partner? If you’re “taken,” does your current relationship fit that? If single, have you ever been with someone who fit those? Are there celebs who don’t fal...
Sixteen
Write a bit about your drivers’ licence. How old were you, where did you get it? What kind of car did you drive? I was fifteen, driving my grandfather’s Ford, because I was nervous about stalling...
Fifteen
Halftime. When was/will be the halftime fo your life? This was a rather dark prompt now that I look at it again. Do I think I’m past the halfway point? I don’t know. Am I there in other aspec...
Fourteen
Does anything have you excited for next year? Nothing in particular, no. I do seriously doubt that things will be the same as they are now. This situation I’m in is untenable; something diffe...
Twelve
I’m trying to remember something about a real dozen. What was I like at age twelve? (Other than obese....) So, this may end up being a bit of free writing unless someone brings me a dozen cupcake...
Eleven
I apologize in advance for the flippant prompt. I wasn’t thinking when I came up with it. The Eleventh hour of the Eleventh day of the Eleventh month holds incredible significance for what happ...
Ten
What are some qualities of bad bosses? What would you not do if you were supervising others? (No, I won’t aks for you to make your worst bosses, but you can write about why they sucked.) Worst Qu...
Nine
Where do you think you’ll be this time next year? i honestly have to say that I really don’t have any idea. There’s so many irons in the fire, I don’t know which one will heat up enough to use fi...
Eight
Write a bit about what you do on a “normal” day. Where are you? What are you doing? Are you satisfied with the situation? This is a bit of an appropriate prompt, because I haven’t had a “normal” ...
Six
What are your plans for this weekend? Well, birthday dinner tonight for one of the many this month.... Then rest. I really need it. Completely exhausted. So, watching TV and sleeping mainly, I’...
Five
5. Write about your siblings. How many do you have? What’s the age difference between you and them? Tell a bit about where they live, and what they do. Yes, this one is a bit of a cop-out; I’ve...
Four
I have four relatives’ birthdays in the next five days. I’m blaming Valentine’s Day. Do you have any relatives with birthdays in early November? Write a bit about each of them. 1. Today. A quar...
Book Description
National Journal Writers’ Month 2015.
This marks the fifth year I’ve done this. I’ve created the prompts for the last two years myself.
The first three years, I put on the old site (OD), but have done the last two here on PB. You can also find more on my personal blog at control-h.org.
