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55 Things to Write About When You Think You're Stuck with Writer's Block

55 Things to Write About When You Think You're Stuck with Writer's Block

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Amy Turn Sharp
Jan 21, 2025
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1. The exact shape of how you fit inside someone’s arms.

2. Write about your curiosity. What size is it?

3. I am only afraid of ________ & ________ & ________.

4. The color orange.

5. Use the first line All this happened, more or less… from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five in a piece.

6. The first time you experienced death.

7. All your lovers are in one room at the same time at sunset.

8. Your sex life—whatever it looks like, or you want it to look like.

9. The last three times you have been scared. Start with OMFG…

10. Pretend you can take away pain from 5 people—who would they be and why?

11. You wake up next to the first person you ever loved.

12. Candlelight and sorrow.

13. If you left your life, where would we never find you?

14. Make a list of how you want to be devoured.

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