WRITING PROMPTS

LGBT Senior’s Weekly Writing Prompt: The Life You’re Living Now

April 24, 2026 /

LGBTSr’s Weekly Writing Prompt  

We spend a lot of journaling time mining the past. But what about the present? The life unfolding around us this week, this month, this season? Not who we were, not who we are or who we want to become.

Consider a few prompts that address the present we’re living in an write about one, more, or none of them!

  • Your current relationship with time. Do you feel like you have enough of it? Where does it go? What are you giving it to willingly, and what is taking more if it than you want to spend?
  • The work you’re doing right now. What feels meaningful? What feels like noise?
  • Who you’re becoming. What is changing in you? What older version of yourself are you letting go of, or want to?
  • Your body in the present tense: How are you sleeping? Eating? Moving? What is your body asking for that you keep postponing?
  • The relationships currently shaping you. Who are you spending time with, and how do you feel afterward?
  • What you’re avoiding—an honest look at the one thing or things staring back at you that you just don’t want to do.