WRITING PROMPTS
The New Yorker|July 29, 2024
Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller.
CORA FRAZIER
WRITING PROMPTS

Name five things you see, four things you hear, three things you smell, two things you touch, and one thing you taste. Repeatedly pick up the pacifier from the trash-strewn sidewalk and rub it with a disinfecting wipe. Taste is the hardest one!

Sitting in the kitchen while your baby naps, think about the last misunderstanding you had. Turn down the sound on the baby monitor and write about the misunderstanding from the other person’s perspective. Then write about the misunderstanding from your own perspective before the baby’s wails become loud enough to prompt a “checking in” text from your downstairs neighbor. Take your time with this one.

Write a story about an underground tunnel that leads someplace unexpected while you sit between a radiator and a diaper pail.

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