Writing exercises

[temperance14]

For those journaling, and attempting to find SOMETHING to write, an exercise from my textbook:

Lists of lists
What's in my body
Signs of Winter
What to take on a journey

Things I have
Things people have said to me

Things on which I am an expert
Things I have forgotten

Things to make lists of

Create a list from one of these, then
Pick a single word/line from your list and write a paragraph about it. Germ of a memoir or a story?
OR
Write a single line about each item on your list. Start of a poem?

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Triggers for freewrites:

This journal is...
My mother used to have...
There was something about the way he....
The house we lived in....
In this dream I was...
She got out of the car....
First thing I want in the morning...