Write Life Challenge #25: Love

By Shai Coggins | Related entries in Writing Prompts and Exercises

1) What is the best writing about love that you know of? Write about it.

Kahlil Gibran

When you read Gibran’s writings on love you wish you were the woman he was thinking of.

2) List 5 things that you love. Then, list 5 people that you love.

Holding babies
Sitting on the boardwalk looking out at the ocean
Long walks with my camera in hand
Quiet dinners with special friends
The theatre

My daughter
My husband
My family in Heaven
My friend Heart
B. A.

3) Write about your first love.

When I was about 13 I feel hard for a pizza boy named Roberto.  He must have been 19 or 20.   I used to go to the place he worked at all the time, and eat endless slices of extra cheese pie.   When he used to stretch the dough and toss it in the air my heart went with it.

4) Create your own definition of love.

Love is what makes a person who’d rather be watching TV,  get up and take you out to dinner.

5) Complete the sentence: “Love brings…”

a certain craziness with it. But oh how I love to be immersed in that craziness.