Day 260: No thanks

It’s Writing Day!

Writing Prompt: What are you not thankful for this year?

There’s a lot of pressure this week to show gratitude and be thankful. If the self-care platitudes are ringing hollow for you, don’t force it. Let’s face it. 2020 has served up a bigger than usual portion of no-thank-you.

Author Allison Hope proposes renaming this year’s Thanksgiving “Grumpstaking” and celebrating with an airing of grievances. Why not give it a try?

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Catch up on previous Writing days:

• Share your memories of a favorite recipe

• Have fun with onomatopoeia

• Follow the election results

• Get some random inspiration

• Spooky stories

• Write a story using emoji

• Write a limerick

• Fit a story in a tweet

• Write a choose-your-own-adventure story

• Word avalanches

• Nominative determinism

• Write badly on purpose

• Play Exquisite Corpse

• Write a story from a non-human perspective

• Start a dream journal

• Film-noir narration

• Use your senses

• Write a six-word memoir

• Is a picture worth 1,000 words?

• Imagine your calendar for this time next year

• Try blackout poetry

• Write a letter to someone

• What’s your lockdown language?

• Document your life right now

• Is there a fact you can’t forget?

• What’s your personal meme?

• What made you realize you were an adult?

• Make a mini-presentation about something interesting

• Who was your best teacher? Who was your worst?

• Have an AI do the writing for you

• How have you changed?

• Learn about word origins

• Design an ad from the future

• What’s the best advice you’ve been given?

• Write a one-star review of your dinner

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