Prep + Mise en Place
Write a list of 30 things you love right now. (Here’s my example PDF.)
For your journal or commonplace:
Time for your creative preoccupations again. Make a list of your current Preoccupations. Persons, places, things, activities that have a hold on your mind, body, spirit, and/or imagination. (Here’s my example PDF.)
Appetizer
Do a short, focused free write about one of these preoccupations. (Here’s my example PDF.)
Main Course
Write about a trip to some noteworthy place that’s foreign to you. Keep in mind that “noteworthy” is a bendy term. A lobster festival in Maine is noteworthy. Paris is noteworthy. So is Andalusia, Alabama, or any old maternity ward. (Here’s my example: Paradise Lost)
Dessert
Open the dictionary to a random page and read every entry. If you’re sparked to create something, make an erasure poem out of that page (i.e., find a poem embedded in the page by crossing out all the language that isn’t the poem).