Writing Prompt

I'm getting that urge to write again. I mean, yeah, I write 3-5 paragraphs a day on this blog, but I mean serious writing. As in my Bucket List plan to write a book some day.

One of the magazines my company publishes focuses on writing. It's for people who write for their personal enjoyment and those who want to break into the Best Seller list and those who want credit for the next Hollywood screen play and so on. This magazine is always running contests and, unfortunately, as an employee, I am not eligible to enter.

However, for the current contest, the big annual one, I've been helping open entries and sort them for judging. I get to glance at the contents but don't have time to read through anything. (There are thousands of entries!) However, it's just enough to get me thinking about putting pen to paper, er, fingers to keyboard, to get some thoughts and plots down.

Where to start? That's the hard part. What do I really want to write about? Will it be fiction or the real deal? My life or something more amusing or inspiring? I see parts of my life story in this blog. But I would need to sell more than 2 dozen books to make a living (ha).

Sometimes in writing class, we'd get a writing prompt -- either a topic or an opening and/or closing line to get our gears turning. Got anything for me? Otherwise, Carter just informed me I should be writing about the fossilized dinosaur poop he got to touch today at Kidz Camp! You don't see that on the Best Seller list every day.