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Originally written on April 17th 2019...
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Hey everyone…

As the weekly prompts completes 15 weeks as of last week – I thought, why not just put up a compilation of all the prompts that have been given out as part of weekly prompts this year from this space and let fellow bloggers help pick any they might have missed reading and thus writing  🙂 Most of these prompts are inspired by what I encounter in my day to day life or my own experiences in the week – so feel free to use your imagination to fictionalize it and present it as a chapter from a story or alternatively, and only if you are fine , write about your own experience around the prompt – totally your choice 🙂

Now, for the first time readers of this post,  the idea of starting this exercise of weekly prompts was to get people to dust their blog spaces and just write about any random topic.. anything that helps to give the wide audience of blogger community here in this space and their imaginations a kick start…  For starters, I was one such blogger who needed to dust my space too and this exercise sure did make me sit up and write quite a few number of posts this year, even if they were just giving out prompts (sometimes not on time :P)… So if you have been wanting to write from a long time and if you get a spark from any of the below mentioned prompts, I’d be very happy to have achieved that 🙂  If not, hey, there’s always the next prompt to look forward to 🙂 Not all prompts can interest everyone, right?

19.15

Imagine that you are leaving someone important behind and traveling half way across the world because of some commitment which cannot be avoided at any cost – Pen your thoughts during the travel

19.14:

Earth starts wobbling and you have no idea what’s going on. Amidst chaos, suddenly, you are made aware, that you are the only one, for some reason, who can figure out and rectify Earth’s rotation. Build a story around it.  As expected, this can be a funny take on the chaos and need not be driven by serious scientifically proven concepts.

19.13:

My daughter, all of 8 years, looked at me with her innocent eyes, brimming with tears, and asked me – Ma, when will I be 18  years old? Why is it taking so long? When can I free you from him? I don’t need him. Ma, please. Listen to me. Let’s leave.

19.12:

I woke up.. It seemed like a peaceful morning. .. I was not yet ready to get out of the bed.. I could hear the early morning noises, the birds chirping, the gurgling noises of the stream nearby, the temple bells ringing at a distance.. The aroma of filter coffee from the kitchen managed to further wake the lazy-me and I slowly turned to my left. That’s when I saw her, sleeping next to me, a sweet serene smile on her face… I smiled back mesmerized by the beauty, only to suddenly wake up completely and recoil in horror – who the hell was this sleeping beauty and what the hell was she doing here?

19.11, 19.10, 19.09 : These were not given by me but voluntarily given by Ramanujam when I went missing from this space 😛 Thank you again, Ramanujam 🙂 (Note: though I linked his prompts in Org space, not going to do so here as that requires me to ask him if he's ok with that and he has already left the organization)

19:08 :  Write a 55F  using the mother-daughter image as the theme. Refer the original post for the image

19.07:  Following must be the last lines of your story. “And there you are – my own happily ever after” Yep, happy endings please!

19.06:  I want you to write about anything that recently made you experience that kind of “peace” or “happiness”.  Basically, what makes you happy? Like, truly happy?  It can be as simple as feeling bliss as you sip hot filter coffee from that steel tumbler or as complicated as you want it to be. It can be a place, a safe memory, a comfort food, a conversation with a particular person, an activity, a hobby or multiple such things  put together.  If you are not comfortable elaborating on a single personal experience, you can also give us your own happiness – list, say, like 15 things (need not be exactly 15) that make you absolutely happy 🙂 Choice is yours 🙂

19.05: I want you to set a timer for 10 minutes and write.  Write every random thought that crosses your mind in those 10 minutes. Do not plan the post, no editing allowed (I cannot verify it, but I trust you :)) –  Just jot down the free flow of random thoughts and publish the post at the end of 10 minutes

19.04:  The prompt for you is to write a post/story using all of the following –

“The Hidden Sun”

“Afternoon on a hill”

“By the sea-side”

and if possible, a reference somewhere to the legendary story of “Rip Van Winkle” (Please google if you don’t know the story)

19:03:  The prompt for you this week is to write a story revolving around a family along the lines of – Theda hai but mera hai – as in “Crazy, Weird, Twisted but Mine”. Write about a family which is as weird, crazy, twisted, different as any other family, but at the end of the day, no one would want it away or any different. And oh, I will be super glad if you choose to write on your own one-of-a-kind family  (I am sure, each one of us has one such) instead of a fictionalized version. Go on, choose real or fiction and then write!!

19.02: Write about that kid that you were, with a different dream and a different passion and if you want, how you ended up here, good or bad? I know we can pursue dreams even with this job, and if that’s the case, write how you managed to do so. If it’s too personal, you can also fictionalize this prompt and weave a story around childhood dreams turning into passion or otherwise. You get to decide!

19.01: Considering this is the first post and the first prompt of the year  – I decided to have the most cliched topic at this time of the year , as a prompt,  yes, of course, the new year resolutions!! What are your this year’s resolutions? Go on, write about it and let’s then come back end of the year to check what we have accomplished from the list

Its been a while I actually “blogged” – If you get what I mean. Most of my recent posts are just centered around the weekly prompts – with a little background about how the prompt came into being.  And as I type this, I can’t help but sigh, and, yes, I have told this probably a hundred times already but I do miss the old humble and generous blogging community and of course, the comments that used to pour in as soon as we published a post – it was a positive community and at times the encouragement felt too much to handle too!  To be honest, I miss those rants and ramblings those few amazing bloggers used to write, and interestingly, as I look back, those were the ones that has made an impact than anything else, as I seem to still remember them 🙂 Probably because, they were super creative even if it were just rants/ramblings and it also helped the reader connect in a strange way – you just nod along the lines of the rants, that yep, been there, experienced that, you know?

I don’t know how many of you quite understand that blogging is not only about churning out fiction and stories all the time(of course it is for bloggers who create a blog with an intention, passion and interest to do only that), but it’s essentially at the end of the day, a weblog, a platform to write about anything under the sun, a platform each uses for a purpose of his/her own interests, some do it to hone their writing skills,  some do it make connections with people with similar interests, some do it because they are better at weaving words online than in person, some do it to ensure there’s a log of what interests them, some vent out stuff which they cannot anywhere else – why, there are blogs that churn out details about what happens next in the Ekta Kapoor daily soaps – so, a blog can document anything that you want it to depict – its about your personal interests and how you want your space to be when and if you decide writing 🙂   Having said that, every blogger thrives on comments, even if it is a critical feedback or a mere acknowledgement, a recognition that the post has been read does add colour to a bloggers life !

But hey, before I digress further, which I don’t know why I did in the first place, I guess, I just wanted any new to-be-blogger to not have any inhibitions that there’s only technical stuff that can be written on an organization blog (having said that, this is still an organization blogspace and we all need to be mindful of the content posted). So yeah, anyways,  am also planning to compile a list of posts that were written for these prompts soon to let you go find some awesome bloggers who have been writing awesome pieces for most of these prompts (Thanks a bunch :)) – Not all of them have provided the correct tags that I had requested for, but that’s ok, I will look up those posts.. so will take a while, but until then, may be you can pick a few from here and write too and thus stand a chance to feature in that next post 🙂

Keep writing 🙂

If you want to find the original posts of any of these prompts, I am yet to sync most of them here but the one's that are already synced can be found here..