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Well, we all knew it might come to this, right? I'm far too lazy to keep this up, so!
JANUARY
1 - Write about Sunday afternoon.
2 - Write about a time someone said no.
3 - You're standing in a doorway.
4 - "A year after your death, ..." (after Czeslaw Milosz)
5 - Write about a day moon.
6 - Write about bathing.
7 - Once, when no one was looking ...
8 - It's what I do in the middle of the night.
9 - Write about a ceremony.
10 - Write about a wound.
11 - You are in a motel room.
12 - Write about acceptable losses.
13 - After midnight.
14 - Write about the horizon.
15 - It's Saturday afternoon. You're not at home.
16 - Write about a bed.
17 - Write about a time you found out about something you weren't supposed to know.
18 - "It was noon and nothing is concluded." (after Donald Rawley)
19 - Remember a sound.
20 - Look out your window; write what you see.
21 - Write about something you bought mail order.
22 - In the meantime ...
23 - Write a love letter. To anyone.
24 - Write about leaving.
25 - Shadows.
26 - Describe the contents of someone's closet.
27 - Write about a used car.
28 - Write about "the sky you were born under." (after Joy Harjo)
29 - The end of the day.
30 - Write about a forbidden activity.
31 - "The first time I wore _____________."
FEBRUARY
1 - Write about a kiss.
2 - Find your way in a city.
3 - These are the things women know about love.
4 - Write about a black-and-white photograph.
5 - "When I awoke the next morning ..."
6 - Write about a stranger.
7 - "Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. Everybody thinks it's true." (after Paul Simon)
8 - Write about a river.
9 - Write about a wild-eyed dream.
10 - You hear church bells in the distance.
11 - This is how my heart was broken.
12 - Write your morning.
13 - You're moving into a new house; write about the people or person who lived there before you.
14 - Write about the night sky.
15 - Write about a brief encounter.
16 - Someone gave you flowers.
17 - Open the box.
18 - Blue -- the color or the emotion.
19 - Write about a quilt or a blanket.
20 - Close your eyes. Write about what you see.
21 - Someone's playing the radio.
22 - Write about a tattoo.
23 - These are the pleasures I have known.
24 - Once, in the midst of all the recklessness ...
25 - "By the sea, beneath the yellow and sagging moon." (after Walt Whitman)
26 - The last time.
27 - Write about fireworks.
28 - What if ...
29 - Write about a balcony.
MARCH
1 - Write about hair.
2 - This much is known.
3 - You see a shooting star.
4 - "At 5 in the afternoon." (after Federico García Lorca)
5 - What are you waiting for?
6 - Write about someone who left.
7 - Write about a time you won, Big.
8 - Night.
9 - Write about a secret revealed.
10 - Give me a moon story.
11 - "You have stayed too long."
12 - Write about stealing something.
13 - Write about a longing.
14 - Write about a justifiable sin.
15 - "If I had my way ..."
16 - Write about small injuries.
17 - On the eve of the funeral.
18 - Write about promises that were broken.
19 - You're in the backseat of a taxi.
20 - This is a map to where I live.
21 - Write about a fortune-teller.
22 - Write about taking the long way around.
23 - "I remember how it was to drive in gravel." (after Theodore Roethke)
24 - Write about getting caught in the act.
25 - Write about what you didn't do.
26 - There were signs and signals.
27 - Write about memories underfoot.
28 - "The last time I saw ______________,"
29 - Write about something astonishing.
30 - "So, these were my friends ..." (after John Balaban)
31 - Every morning ...
APRIL
1 - You're in a grocery store.
2 - "I would like to make an exchange."
3 - Write about your mother's cooking.
4 - It was a rainy day.
5 - Write about eating a meal.
6 - Write what you'll miss when you die.
7 - Write about a town you passed through.
8 - Write about your father's hands.
9 - You're asleep. You're not at home.
10 - "I still don't know ..."
11 - Write about a body part.
12 - Dubious intentions.
13 - Write about a time you changed your mind.
14 - Write about slumming.
15 - These are the things women don't know about love.
16 - Write about falling from grace.
17 - Write about what's under your house.
18 - Just beyond the edge of the woods.
19 - Write about a time you did something you didn't want to do.
20 - Write about meeting someone for the first time.
21 - Something seemed different.
22 - This is not about ...
23 - One thing can't be denied ...
24 - Write about a year ago.
25 - You hear music in the background.
26 - Once, with another woman ...
27 - "I can never say quite as much as I know." (after Robert Olen Butler)
28 - Write about a time you wanted to leave, but couldn't.
29 - Write about secrets revealed.
30 - Write about an injury.
MAY
1 - Write about circling the edge.
2 - Write about falling.
3 - Write about a sin.
4 - "Why not? ..."
5 - Wearing that ring ...
6 - I can imagine.
7 - "Some things you'll never forget."
8 - Write about a cold snap.
9 - Write about a premonition.
10 - "It's all you could expect."
11 - Write about a time you gave someone a present.
12 - I can't remember.
13 - "Even after my death ..." (after Maria Luisa Spaziani)
14 - Write about abandoned houses.
15 - Write about a reflection.
16 - Ten years ago ...
17 - You're in a hotel lobby.
18 - Write about a place you know, but not well.
19 - One day, ...
20 - Write about ebb tide.
21 - It's too soon to tell.
22 - Write about predictability.
23 - Road maps.
24 - Write about something you see every day.
25 - You're listening to the radio.
26 - "And it was at that age ..." (after Pablo Neruda)
27 - It's snowing.
28 - Write about a time someone said yes.
29 - Before I was born.
30 - If I could do it over again.
31 - You hear a siren.
JUNE
1 - Write about something to hold on to.
2 - Write about a silence.
3 - Once, when I was ...
4 - What are you looking for?
5 - Write about small regrets.
6 - You are standing on one side of a closed door.
7 - Write about something that came in a box.
8 - This is the voice of my body.
9 - Rising early to begin the journey.
10 - Write about a compromise.
11 - Write about mistaken identity.
12 - "Afterward, I thought about ..."
13 - These were the doubts I had.
14 - Write about a dinner party.
15 - When the dust settles.
16 - Write about an island.
17 - It's who you met at a party.
18 - Out of the corner of my eye.
19 - In the heat of the afternoon.
20 - Someone's playing the piano.
21 - Write about a pair of shoes.
22 - Write about a letter.
23 - Write about an hour of the day.
24 - This is what you can see by starlight.
25 - It was Sunday, the time it happened.
26 - Write about the making of beds.
27 - This is where I went wrong.
28 - Write about small change.
29 - Write about high tide.
30 - "Long afterward, I came upon it again ..." (after Colette)
JULY
1 - The possibilities are endless.
2 - These were the frequently asked questions.
3 - Write about the inevitable.
4 - Write about a voice.
5 - Write about a time you cried.
6 - So it has come to this.
7 - It was his idea of a good time.
8 - Write about a gate.
9 - Write what you wanted to do.
10 - Write about a postcard.
11 - It was as if ...
12 - "Throw away the lights, the definitions/and say of what you see in the dark." (after Wallace Stevens)
13 - Write about a theft.
14 - Write about an epiphany.
15 - It was that kind of day.
16 - Half an hour before sunrise.
17 - In a state of disarray.
18 - Write about a recurring dream.
19 - Write about a time you got what you wanted.
20 - Write about passing time.
21 - Write about packing a suitcase.
22 - The first time I saw ___________.
23 - Write about being late.
24 - Write about a conversation.
25 - Write about asking for mercy.
26 - A free-for-all.
27 - You're in a movie theater.
28 - Every night, ...
29 - Write about a scent.
30 - Write about an eclipse.
31 - Somebody makes a promise.
AUGUST
1 - Write about a tool.
2 - Write about a time you were misunderstood.
3 - Write about a bedroom.
4 - If only, ...
5 - Write about a summer night.
6 - "I was listening to something I heard before."
7 - Someone is calling your name.
8 - Write about something that was stolen.
9 - On the other side.
10 - I've never seen his face.
11 - This is what the neighbors saw.
12 - Write about something that made you cry.
13 - And when autumn finally arrived.
14 - Write about the careless days.
15 - Aftershocks of the full moon.
16 - "Sleeping Where I Fall." (after Peter Coyote)
17 - Nothing has changed.
18 - At the other end of the street.
19 - Write about the silent treatment.
20 - Write about stealing time.
21 - Write about an overheard remark.
22 - You picked up a hitchhiker.
23 - Something's burning.
24 - Write about being on the inside.
25 - Write about the morning after.
26 - Write about what has yet to happen.
27 - You are in the backyard.
28 - Write about a dangerous ride.
29 - My mother once told me ...
30 - "... and her red hair lit the wall." (after Victor Hugo)
31 - "It's my belief we're all crazy." (after Trudy, the bag lady)
SEPTEMBER
1 - Write a December memory.
2 - "It was Sunday morning." (after Sharon Olds)
3 - Write about your neighborhood at 5 PM.
4 - You eavesdrop on a conversation. What do you hear?
5 - The time between dusk and dawn.
6 - Write about a fragrance.
7 - Write about a place you long for.
8 - ________ is the color I remember.
9 - Write about a car trip.
10 - Write about a time someone went too far.
11 - I don't remember.
12 - In a cemetery.
13 - There's a bar in Austin, Texas, called "Jake's Place."
14 - Write about someone who sinned.
15 - "For as long as she lives, and probably longer, she will never forget his face." (after Alison Moore)
16 - Write about something you would do differently.
17 - Write about a purchase.
18 - It's raining now.
19 - Write about a time someone lost control.
20 - Accept loss forever. (after Jack Kerouac)
21 - Write a daydream.
22 - "In the blue night frost haze ..." (after Gary Snyder)
23 - Write about a time someone surprised you.
24 - Write about a door key.
25 - Write about a simple pleasure.
26 - Night is falling. You're not at home.
27 - Write about a time the lights went out.
28 - Write about a time you did something out of superstition.
29 - The night won't save anyone.
30 - Write about a rendezvous.
OCTOBER
1 - On the night train to _________.
2 - Write about never and always.
3 - Write about taking a detour.
4 - Three things my father told me.
5 - Write about a fragment.
6 - Write about small mistakes.
7 - You're in a café.
8 - Losing control.
9 - "____________ are my weakness." (after Pam Houston)
10 - "In those days, ..." (after Roger Alpon)
11 - It was as far as I could go.
12 - Write a summer memory.
13 - Write about a pillow.
14 - Write about being in a closed space.
15 - Write about promises made.
16 - You're driving in your car.
17 - When I opened my mouth to sing.
18 - Write about a hideout.
19 - Write about jealousy.
20 - Someone says, "Can I see you in the kitchen?"
21 - Write about a bruise.
22 - I come from ...
23 - These are the lies I told you.
24 - There is a place called _________.
25 - Write about small scrapes and bruises.
26 - Write about "what goes without saying."
27 - Write what the darkness proposes.
28 - "It was a summer of blue-black nights." (after Don Delillo)
29 - "I'm at a loss ..."
30 - "What will happen can't be stopped." (after Ann Beattie)
31 - Write about someone who has passed to the other side.
NOVEMBER
1 - Write about casting a spell.
2 - I dreamed ___________.
3 - Write about yearning.
4 - The sun is rising.
5 - Write about divine intervention.
6 - You're eating breakfast.
7 - Secretly, I know my name is ___________.
8 - Write about electricity in the air.
9 - It's what I do at 2:30 in the morning when I can't sleep.
10 - Write about where rivers join.
11 - Write about a song you love.
12 - This is what can happen when ______________.
13 - Remember an afternoon.
14 - "The window had other views." (after Wislawa Szymborska)
15 - Write about what's obvious.
16 - Write about the last night of ______________.
17 - Write of something done in a small moment.
18 - These were the reasons to stay.
19 - Write about being lost along the way.
20 - Write about the booth in the corner.
21 - Returning takes too long.
22 - Write about a hesitation.
23 - Write about being underwater.
24 - Write about opening a gift.
25 - Write about the fault line.
26 - This is what was left when he was gone.
27 - Write about a sudden storm.
28 - One Saturday night, ...
29 - Write about avenues of escape.
30 - A woman named ____________.
DECEMBER
1 - Write about an invitation refused.
2 - ... and nobody objected.
3 - I recall that evening together.
4 - Write about an unforeseen friendship.
5 - Write about a series of mishaps.
6 - This is what she said.
7 - Write about hard times.
8 - Write about winter constellations.
9 - Behind lace curtains.
10 - Write about seeing someone for the last time.
11 - Write about a late night phone call.
12 - I carried it in my pocket.
13 - This is the difference between men and women.
14 - Write about a street you lived on.
15 - Write about a red convertible.
16 - "I walked into the Maverick Bar in Farmingon, N.M." (after Gary Snyder)
17 - Write about a redheaded woman.
18 - Write about masks.
19 - You are in a church.
20 - Write about what you didn't say.
21 - Write about a scar.
22 - It's Sunday morning. The phone rings.
23 - Write about something you want but cannot have.
24 - Write about a fire.
25 - "We ate Chinese."
26 - Write about something sacred.
27 - Write about a time someone told you a secret.
28 - If I tell you the truth ...
29 - These are the delicacies of a ruined evening.
30 - A random light.
31 - In anticipation of the night.
JANUARY
1 - Write about Sunday afternoon.
2 - Write about a time someone said no.
3 - You're standing in a doorway.
4 - "A year after your death, ..." (after Czeslaw Milosz)
5 - Write about a day moon.
6 - Write about bathing.
7 - Once, when no one was looking ...
8 - It's what I do in the middle of the night.
9 - Write about a ceremony.
10 - Write about a wound.
11 - You are in a motel room.
12 - Write about acceptable losses.
13 - After midnight.
14 - Write about the horizon.
15 - It's Saturday afternoon. You're not at home.
16 - Write about a bed.
17 - Write about a time you found out about something you weren't supposed to know.
18 - "It was noon and nothing is concluded." (after Donald Rawley)
19 - Remember a sound.
20 - Look out your window; write what you see.
21 - Write about something you bought mail order.
22 - In the meantime ...
23 - Write a love letter. To anyone.
24 - Write about leaving.
25 - Shadows.
26 - Describe the contents of someone's closet.
27 - Write about a used car.
28 - Write about "the sky you were born under." (after Joy Harjo)
29 - The end of the day.
30 - Write about a forbidden activity.
31 - "The first time I wore _____________."
FEBRUARY
1 - Write about a kiss.
2 - Find your way in a city.
3 - These are the things women know about love.
4 - Write about a black-and-white photograph.
5 - "When I awoke the next morning ..."
6 - Write about a stranger.
7 - "Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. Everybody thinks it's true." (after Paul Simon)
8 - Write about a river.
9 - Write about a wild-eyed dream.
10 - You hear church bells in the distance.
11 - This is how my heart was broken.
12 - Write your morning.
13 - You're moving into a new house; write about the people or person who lived there before you.
14 - Write about the night sky.
15 - Write about a brief encounter.
16 - Someone gave you flowers.
17 - Open the box.
18 - Blue -- the color or the emotion.
19 - Write about a quilt or a blanket.
20 - Close your eyes. Write about what you see.
21 - Someone's playing the radio.
22 - Write about a tattoo.
23 - These are the pleasures I have known.
24 - Once, in the midst of all the recklessness ...
25 - "By the sea, beneath the yellow and sagging moon." (after Walt Whitman)
26 - The last time.
27 - Write about fireworks.
28 - What if ...
29 - Write about a balcony.
MARCH
1 - Write about hair.
2 - This much is known.
3 - You see a shooting star.
4 - "At 5 in the afternoon." (after Federico García Lorca)
5 - What are you waiting for?
6 - Write about someone who left.
7 - Write about a time you won, Big.
8 - Night.
9 - Write about a secret revealed.
10 - Give me a moon story.
11 - "You have stayed too long."
12 - Write about stealing something.
13 - Write about a longing.
14 - Write about a justifiable sin.
15 - "If I had my way ..."
16 - Write about small injuries.
17 - On the eve of the funeral.
18 - Write about promises that were broken.
19 - You're in the backseat of a taxi.
20 - This is a map to where I live.
21 - Write about a fortune-teller.
22 - Write about taking the long way around.
23 - "I remember how it was to drive in gravel." (after Theodore Roethke)
24 - Write about getting caught in the act.
25 - Write about what you didn't do.
26 - There were signs and signals.
27 - Write about memories underfoot.
28 - "The last time I saw ______________,"
29 - Write about something astonishing.
30 - "So, these were my friends ..." (after John Balaban)
31 - Every morning ...
APRIL
1 - You're in a grocery store.
2 - "I would like to make an exchange."
3 - Write about your mother's cooking.
4 - It was a rainy day.
5 - Write about eating a meal.
6 - Write what you'll miss when you die.
7 - Write about a town you passed through.
8 - Write about your father's hands.
9 - You're asleep. You're not at home.
10 - "I still don't know ..."
11 - Write about a body part.
12 - Dubious intentions.
13 - Write about a time you changed your mind.
14 - Write about slumming.
15 - These are the things women don't know about love.
16 - Write about falling from grace.
17 - Write about what's under your house.
18 - Just beyond the edge of the woods.
19 - Write about a time you did something you didn't want to do.
20 - Write about meeting someone for the first time.
21 - Something seemed different.
22 - This is not about ...
23 - One thing can't be denied ...
24 - Write about a year ago.
25 - You hear music in the background.
26 - Once, with another woman ...
27 - "I can never say quite as much as I know." (after Robert Olen Butler)
28 - Write about a time you wanted to leave, but couldn't.
29 - Write about secrets revealed.
30 - Write about an injury.
MAY
1 - Write about circling the edge.
2 - Write about falling.
3 - Write about a sin.
4 - "Why not? ..."
5 - Wearing that ring ...
6 - I can imagine.
7 - "Some things you'll never forget."
8 - Write about a cold snap.
9 - Write about a premonition.
10 - "It's all you could expect."
11 - Write about a time you gave someone a present.
12 - I can't remember.
13 - "Even after my death ..." (after Maria Luisa Spaziani)
14 - Write about abandoned houses.
15 - Write about a reflection.
16 - Ten years ago ...
17 - You're in a hotel lobby.
18 - Write about a place you know, but not well.
19 - One day, ...
20 - Write about ebb tide.
21 - It's too soon to tell.
22 - Write about predictability.
23 - Road maps.
24 - Write about something you see every day.
25 - You're listening to the radio.
26 - "And it was at that age ..." (after Pablo Neruda)
27 - It's snowing.
28 - Write about a time someone said yes.
29 - Before I was born.
30 - If I could do it over again.
31 - You hear a siren.
JUNE
1 - Write about something to hold on to.
2 - Write about a silence.
3 - Once, when I was ...
4 - What are you looking for?
5 - Write about small regrets.
6 - You are standing on one side of a closed door.
7 - Write about something that came in a box.
8 - This is the voice of my body.
9 - Rising early to begin the journey.
10 - Write about a compromise.
11 - Write about mistaken identity.
12 - "Afterward, I thought about ..."
13 - These were the doubts I had.
14 - Write about a dinner party.
15 - When the dust settles.
16 - Write about an island.
17 - It's who you met at a party.
18 - Out of the corner of my eye.
19 - In the heat of the afternoon.
20 - Someone's playing the piano.
21 - Write about a pair of shoes.
22 - Write about a letter.
23 - Write about an hour of the day.
24 - This is what you can see by starlight.
25 - It was Sunday, the time it happened.
26 - Write about the making of beds.
27 - This is where I went wrong.
28 - Write about small change.
29 - Write about high tide.
30 - "Long afterward, I came upon it again ..." (after Colette)
JULY
1 - The possibilities are endless.
2 - These were the frequently asked questions.
3 - Write about the inevitable.
4 - Write about a voice.
5 - Write about a time you cried.
6 - So it has come to this.
7 - It was his idea of a good time.
8 - Write about a gate.
9 - Write what you wanted to do.
10 - Write about a postcard.
11 - It was as if ...
12 - "Throw away the lights, the definitions/and say of what you see in the dark." (after Wallace Stevens)
13 - Write about a theft.
14 - Write about an epiphany.
15 - It was that kind of day.
16 - Half an hour before sunrise.
17 - In a state of disarray.
18 - Write about a recurring dream.
19 - Write about a time you got what you wanted.
20 - Write about passing time.
21 - Write about packing a suitcase.
22 - The first time I saw ___________.
23 - Write about being late.
24 - Write about a conversation.
25 - Write about asking for mercy.
26 - A free-for-all.
27 - You're in a movie theater.
28 - Every night, ...
29 - Write about a scent.
30 - Write about an eclipse.
31 - Somebody makes a promise.
AUGUST
1 - Write about a tool.
2 - Write about a time you were misunderstood.
3 - Write about a bedroom.
4 - If only, ...
5 - Write about a summer night.
6 - "I was listening to something I heard before."
7 - Someone is calling your name.
8 - Write about something that was stolen.
9 - On the other side.
10 - I've never seen his face.
11 - This is what the neighbors saw.
12 - Write about something that made you cry.
13 - And when autumn finally arrived.
14 - Write about the careless days.
15 - Aftershocks of the full moon.
16 - "Sleeping Where I Fall." (after Peter Coyote)
17 - Nothing has changed.
18 - At the other end of the street.
19 - Write about the silent treatment.
20 - Write about stealing time.
21 - Write about an overheard remark.
22 - You picked up a hitchhiker.
23 - Something's burning.
24 - Write about being on the inside.
25 - Write about the morning after.
26 - Write about what has yet to happen.
27 - You are in the backyard.
28 - Write about a dangerous ride.
29 - My mother once told me ...
30 - "... and her red hair lit the wall." (after Victor Hugo)
31 - "It's my belief we're all crazy." (after Trudy, the bag lady)
SEPTEMBER
1 - Write a December memory.
2 - "It was Sunday morning." (after Sharon Olds)
3 - Write about your neighborhood at 5 PM.
4 - You eavesdrop on a conversation. What do you hear?
5 - The time between dusk and dawn.
6 - Write about a fragrance.
7 - Write about a place you long for.
8 - ________ is the color I remember.
9 - Write about a car trip.
10 - Write about a time someone went too far.
11 - I don't remember.
12 - In a cemetery.
13 - There's a bar in Austin, Texas, called "Jake's Place."
14 - Write about someone who sinned.
15 - "For as long as she lives, and probably longer, she will never forget his face." (after Alison Moore)
16 - Write about something you would do differently.
17 - Write about a purchase.
18 - It's raining now.
19 - Write about a time someone lost control.
20 - Accept loss forever. (after Jack Kerouac)
21 - Write a daydream.
22 - "In the blue night frost haze ..." (after Gary Snyder)
23 - Write about a time someone surprised you.
24 - Write about a door key.
25 - Write about a simple pleasure.
26 - Night is falling. You're not at home.
27 - Write about a time the lights went out.
28 - Write about a time you did something out of superstition.
29 - The night won't save anyone.
30 - Write about a rendezvous.
OCTOBER
1 - On the night train to _________.
2 - Write about never and always.
3 - Write about taking a detour.
4 - Three things my father told me.
5 - Write about a fragment.
6 - Write about small mistakes.
7 - You're in a café.
8 - Losing control.
9 - "____________ are my weakness." (after Pam Houston)
10 - "In those days, ..." (after Roger Alpon)
11 - It was as far as I could go.
12 - Write a summer memory.
13 - Write about a pillow.
14 - Write about being in a closed space.
15 - Write about promises made.
16 - You're driving in your car.
17 - When I opened my mouth to sing.
18 - Write about a hideout.
19 - Write about jealousy.
20 - Someone says, "Can I see you in the kitchen?"
21 - Write about a bruise.
22 - I come from ...
23 - These are the lies I told you.
24 - There is a place called _________.
25 - Write about small scrapes and bruises.
26 - Write about "what goes without saying."
27 - Write what the darkness proposes.
28 - "It was a summer of blue-black nights." (after Don Delillo)
29 - "I'm at a loss ..."
30 - "What will happen can't be stopped." (after Ann Beattie)
31 - Write about someone who has passed to the other side.
NOVEMBER
1 - Write about casting a spell.
2 - I dreamed ___________.
3 - Write about yearning.
4 - The sun is rising.
5 - Write about divine intervention.
6 - You're eating breakfast.
7 - Secretly, I know my name is ___________.
8 - Write about electricity in the air.
9 - It's what I do at 2:30 in the morning when I can't sleep.
10 - Write about where rivers join.
11 - Write about a song you love.
12 - This is what can happen when ______________.
13 - Remember an afternoon.
14 - "The window had other views." (after Wislawa Szymborska)
15 - Write about what's obvious.
16 - Write about the last night of ______________.
17 - Write of something done in a small moment.
18 - These were the reasons to stay.
19 - Write about being lost along the way.
20 - Write about the booth in the corner.
21 - Returning takes too long.
22 - Write about a hesitation.
23 - Write about being underwater.
24 - Write about opening a gift.
25 - Write about the fault line.
26 - This is what was left when he was gone.
27 - Write about a sudden storm.
28 - One Saturday night, ...
29 - Write about avenues of escape.
30 - A woman named ____________.
DECEMBER
1 - Write about an invitation refused.
2 - ... and nobody objected.
3 - I recall that evening together.
4 - Write about an unforeseen friendship.
5 - Write about a series of mishaps.
6 - This is what she said.
7 - Write about hard times.
8 - Write about winter constellations.
9 - Behind lace curtains.
10 - Write about seeing someone for the last time.
11 - Write about a late night phone call.
12 - I carried it in my pocket.
13 - This is the difference between men and women.
14 - Write about a street you lived on.
15 - Write about a red convertible.
16 - "I walked into the Maverick Bar in Farmingon, N.M." (after Gary Snyder)
17 - Write about a redheaded woman.
18 - Write about masks.
19 - You are in a church.
20 - Write about what you didn't say.
21 - Write about a scar.
22 - It's Sunday morning. The phone rings.
23 - Write about something you want but cannot have.
24 - Write about a fire.
25 - "We ate Chinese."
26 - Write about something sacred.
27 - Write about a time someone told you a secret.
28 - If I tell you the truth ...
29 - These are the delicacies of a ruined evening.
30 - A random light.
31 - In anticipation of the night.