Category: Discover

Orchestrate

Orchestrate: To arrange or control the elements of, as to achieve a desired overall effect. That’s your theme for today.

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  • Write a new post on your iblog in response to the prompt.

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  • What’s the most complicated thing you’ve ever done? Tell us about all the moving parts. If you’re feeling really ambitious, give us instructions!
  • What’s the last piece of music that moved you? (It’s fine if it’s not orchestral music, we’re not strict!) What was your reaction to it? What did it bring up for you?
  • What’s the most delicious thing you ate in the past six months? How did all the elements on the plate come together?
  • Publish a collection of short poems, where each one is a stand-alone that also works with the others to tell a bigger story.

Open

In these days of lockdowns, closures, and physical distancing, what does Open mean to you?

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  • Write a new post on your iBlog in response to the prompt.

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  • Describe a memorable experience in a wide-open space: a desert hike, a picnic, an old-school train station…
  • Tell us about a store, restaurant, or public venue that’s currently closed, and that you can’t wait to see reopen.
  • Write a haiku (or several) in which “open” is the final word.
  • Share a story about a time when you or someone you know acted with open-mindedness and curiosity.
  • Post a photo that invokes a feeling of openness (for you, at least) and tell us when, where, and why you took it.

Song

When you hear the word song, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?

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  • Tell us about the one song that brings back a specific childhood event or experience whenever your hear it.
  • Look at the stats of your music player or digital music service: what’s the most-played song in the past week (or month, or year)? Explain why.
  • If you could sing a duet with one performer, dead or alive, legendary or obscure, who would it be? And what would you sing?
  • Do you love curating mixtapes and playlists? Create one to suit whatever mood you’re in today, and share it in your post. (You can embed music on your iBlog website from a number of platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and SoundCloud, among others.)
  • Take an existing song and tweak its lyrics to fit with your current state of mind or with recent events — just like people on Twitter have been doing with Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
  • Write a glowing review of the song you consider to be the worst of all time.

 

Street

A street can be many things: leafy, bustling, hidden, cobblestoned, winding. Which one will you write about today?

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  • Describe the street you live on today as if it were a person.
  • If your community has been under a form of lockdown in recent weeks, write about the thing you miss the most about the streets in your neighborhood.
  • If your window overlooks a street, snap a photo of it, and post it. (Optional: add a poem to accompany the image.)
  • From memory, describe in as much detail as possible the street you grew up on (or any other street that played an outsized role in your life).
  • You have the magical power to combine three streets from anywhere in the world into one perfect street. Which three would you choose, and why?

Dish

Focus on something delicious. Serve us your best dish.

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  • What’s the best thing you’ve cooked this week? Tell us about your meal — the food, the company, the setting, or anything else you’d like to focus on.
  • If you could go anywhere you wish (and money were no object), where would you go, and what would be the first thing you’d eat there?
  • Many of us have powerful memories of a specific dish from our past — something not even the best professional chef could recreate. What’s yours?
  • Share a photo of the next meal you’re preparing, and teach us how to make at least one thing shown in it.
  • What’s the one ingredient you would never be able to live — let alone cook — without?
  • Feeling poetic? Write an ode celebrating a dish you love.

Hands

We can all use one sometimes: talk to us about hands.

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  • Write a new post on your site in response to the prompt.

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  • Look at yours. What have they accomplished? What do you hope they’ll do next?
  • Tell us about a time someone lent you a hand, or a time you were a helping hand for someone else.
  • Create a post with your hands: share a sketch, or a photo of handwritten text.
  • Is there something you’ve always wanted to try your hand at? What holds you back? Tell us about it.
  • Stuck inside? Post a photo of something that’s close at hand. Why did you choose that thing? What does it mean to you?

Curve

Life has thrown a big one at a lot of us these days: a curve.

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  • Write some flash fiction that takes an unexpected twist.
  • Do a little self reflection: trace the arc of your life from 5 or 10 years ago to the present day, or think about what you hope the arc of the next 10 will look like.
  • Share a photo or a sketch of a graceful curve — the stalk of a flower, the pillow of a chubby cheek, the rounded edges of the cookies you just baked.
  • Write a poem where the final word curves back around to echo a word used in the first line.

Pairs

Birds in the hand, peas in a pod: today is about pairs.

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  • Pick two people who don’t seem to have much in common — people you know, celebrities, historical figures, fictional characters, up to you! — and write a story about what happens when they’re forced to spend time together.
  • Pair different media in one post: add images to a story, add video to a photo essay, add sketches to a collection of haiku.
  • Tell us about the best meal you’ve ever had, the best trip you’ve ever taken, or the best book you’ve ever read, and pair each one with a song. Bonus points for embedding the songs in your post!
  • Look at your nearest pair of shoes. What stories do the scuffs tell?

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Joke

Today’s one-word prompt is Joke, and no, this isn’t a prank.

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  • Tell us the best / worst joke you’ve ever heard, or the most recent one.
  • April Fools’ Day! Share your favorite memory from years past.
  • Tell us about the funniest person or animal you know.
  • Describe the last time you had a full-on, snort-inducing belly laugh.
  • Not feeling very jocular today? Understandable. Tell us why.