No, I am not offering advice about relationships. I am trying to get playful, creative, and find writing inspiration. So here’s a list of ideas you or I might try, changing our point of view. 

Try writing-

What the tree outside your home has seen.

What the earth on the path feels.

What the breeze blowing across your landscape notices.

How your aged self will see today differently.

Fantasize if all the time you wasted this week were put to some wild, crazy use.

Where have your shoes been?

What might happen to that sweater after you give it away to GoodWill?

Do you have your grandmother’s old rolling pin? (Frying pan, colander…) What was she thinking and feeling as she used it in her life? As a young woman? As a middle aged woman?

What did that pineapple go through to get to your plate today? Coffee in your cup? 

The waitress who took your order- imagine her life, make a story.

What is the cat on your lap dreaming of?

Think of a piece of jewelry. What is its history before you? What might be its story after you?

What if you had to abandon your home today? What would you take? Where might you go? 

Imagine you are a honeybee in the Fall, finding the last few flowers then returning to the hive. Describe sights, smells, sounds.

What if you traded your gender for a different one? How would it change how you moved through your day, your work, your life decisions?

Imagine your ideal dream home. Draw it!

Take a story you like or a story you are writing and write a separate backstory of a minor character.

Write a poem from the perspective of a daffodil bulb underground.

Take a bird’s eye view, imagine from the point of view of a migrating bird or Monarch butterfly.

Your favorite mug- does it love you back?

What do you think? Do any of these ideas tempt you? I hope so, and I hope to try a few myself.