Sometimes you have the itch to write to get something – niggling thoughts, nervous energy – out of your system. Here is a bank of topics for when you’re casting about for something fresh to write about. (Apparently I wrote this list about three years ago and haven’t read it since, and now I’m itching to work my way through it):
- the news
- your hometown
- the best advice you ever got
- the best advice you ever gave
- the perfect day
- what you would do with $10,000 to spend in a day
- winning the lottery
- the rooms in your dream home
- what they didn’t teach you in school
- your dinner invitation list
- your 5-year-old self
- your 85-year-old self
- a book
- a song
- a poem
- a work of art
- a quote
- an animal
- your dearest values
- someone you haven’t met yet
- the book you’re going to write one day
- the blog you’re going to write one day
- a bucket list
- Shabbos
- Yom Tov
- a spring memory
- a summer memory
- a fall memory
- a winter memory
- your dream job
- an odd encounter
- a dormant friendship
- unfinished business
- your children
- your favorite place
- your favorite vacation
- your favorite time period
- your favorite character
- a role model
- a surprise
- a routine
- a question
- a business idea
- a secret
- a telephone call
- your favorite teacher
- something you dream of doing
- being famous
- what you can teach someone else
- what you would like to learn
