Sunday, July 27, 2014  •  Prompt #84

Today’s Prompt

Write about buttons.

Instructions

1. Find two or three buttons.
2. Hold them in your hand.
3. Describe their weight, color, texture and material.
4. What is your response seeing or touching these buttons?
5. Write for 20 minutes.

Options and Springboards

• Write about a button found on the sidewalk.
• Write about an absent button, missing from a coat or sleeve.

Writing Group Options

1. Each group member brings several buttons to writing group.
2. Put them all in the middle of the table.
3. Choose one to write about.
4. Fashion a poem, story or creative non-fiction piece around it.