A writing prompt I recently did involved finding paradox in things we experience regularly. A writing instructor presented us with a bunch of images as well as a topic (peace, belonging, fulfillment, etc.) We were supposed to choose an image to correspond with the word we were focusing on and write a few lines beginning with "Belonging is..." or "Belonging is like..." and complete that reflection, likening the topic to that image. Then we were invited to choose something that is typically the opposite of our first word (struggle, estrangement, directionlessness, etc.) and do the same...we could choose a different image, or even the same one, if we really wanted to go deep on the idea of paradox. It brought up some really interesting insights!
A writing prompt I recently did involved finding paradox in things we experience regularly. A writing instructor presented us with a bunch of images as well as a topic (peace, belonging, fulfillment, etc.) We were supposed to choose an image to correspond with the word we were focusing on and write a few lines beginning with "Belonging is..." or "Belonging is like..." and complete that reflection, likening the topic to that image. Then we were invited to choose something that is typically the opposite of our first word (struggle, estrangement, directionlessness, etc.) and do the same...we could choose a different image, or even the same one, if we really wanted to go deep on the idea of paradox. It brought up some really interesting insights!