Christian Writing Prompts for Easter Week

Since it’s Easter, I’d like to offer some Christian writing prompts for you to use and create some exciting pieces of wordplay.

Take your pick.

1   1.  Pick a character in the Bible and describe his/her day. What are his/her struggles, joys, frustrations, etc. Write at least 500 words. Can you make a story out of this?
 
2.     Describe how a Pharisee saw Jesus standing on the steps of the temple. What did he see and hear? Use all the senses.
 
3.     You get to meet your hero from the Bible. What happens?
 
4.     Take the first line of a Psalm and write a story revolving around it.
 
5.     Write a story that revolves around “Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!”
 
6.     Flesh out the woman from the well who met Jesus and gave Him some water. Who is she? Why did she divorce all her husbands and lived with her boyfriend? Why did the other women not like her? What was her name?
 
7.     King David meets Daniel. What happens?
 
8.     Someone gives the pastor a note while he’s preaching, what does it say?
 
9.     What is your first memory regarding Sunday School?
 
10. Write a Sunday School sermon for 5 year olds.
 
11. How did Saul feel before David played his harp and drove out the demons?
 
12. Write a short story regarding a person whom Jesus healed. What happened to them after the healing?
 
13. A bird is sitting on the wall as Jesus walks by carrying his cross. What does the bird see, hear, smell? What does he think?
 
14. Describe God’s love, but you can’t use grace, mercy, or love.
 
15. God has given you a new spiritual gift. What is it and what do you do with it?

I hope you enjoyed your choices. Have a blessed day.

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Gratitude

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Gratitude. Write about the feeling of thankfulness you experience occasionally when you write. As you write, be thankful for your intuitive gift that allows you to hear your inner voice.

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Writing Tips - 10 Writing Insights

From Gotham Writers' Workshop Inc. comes 10 Writing Insights by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd.
Tracy Kidder is a renowned nonfiction writer, known as a literary journalist for the way he combines story and voice with exhaustive research. He is the author of Among Schoolchildren and The Soul of a New Machine, which won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Richard Todd served as executive editor of the esteemed magazine The Atlantic and as the editor of his own book imprint at Houghton Mifflin. Kidder and Todd collaborated on the book Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction.

1. To write is to talk to strangers. you have to inspire confidence, to seem and to be trustworthy.

2. It is always prudent to remember that one is not Tolstoy or Dickens.

3. Don't concentrate on technique, which can be the same as concentrating on yourself. Give yourself to the story.

4. The reader wants to see you not trying to impress, but trying to get somewhere.

5. For a story to have a chance to live, it is essential only that there be something at stake. A car chase is not required.

6. Try to attune yourself to the sound of your own writing. If you can't imagine yourself saying something aloud, then you probably shouldn't write it.

7. The creating of a style often begins with a negative achievement. Only by rejecting what comes too easily can you clear a space for yourself.

8. Use words wantonly and you disappear before your own eyes. Use them well and you create yourself.

9. The best work is done when one's eye is simply on the work, not on its consequence, or on oneself. It is something done for its own sake. It is, in Lewis Hyde's term, a gift.

10. Be willing to surprise yourself.

Thank you to Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd for their insight. Thank you to the Gotham Writers' Workshop for their interview.

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Your Own Voice

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write in your own voice. Try to discover your own voice by writing about passionate topics. Do not worry about the eyes and minds of the world. Only write what you know to be true in your heart and soul. Use the voice (the gift) that was bestowed upon you. Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Were you able to find and write in your own voice?

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