QUEERLY TRANS
Things that Make Me Feel (Insert Desirable Adjective Here)
A “Logan’s Corner” Writing Prompt
I love making lists.
It’s comforting. It’s also a way to channel a specific state of mind, if we’re open to a kind of feeling. Lists can bring me straight to my woo-woo place.
I don’t particularly like being told to write a list of positive things. When pushed in that direction, I can get a bit snarky.
I don’t necessarily always like the idea of exclusively positive thinking. I don’t always want to feel only positive vibes. I want the full range of life experience. Sometimes, I even want to be sad or angry because this is part of being human, too. Fear can also be an underrated, life affirming emotion that can keep us safe in some sticky situations by setting off some important alarm bells. Fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning can save our lives; instincts exist for a reason. Sometimes I want to honor the emotions behind these actions by immortalizing their truth.
With that in mind, I’m not going to ask you to write about only positive adjectives.
I’m just going to ask you to write about things that make you feel imbibed with the full power of whatever adjective you currently need and/or desire to embody, feel, embrace, or succumb to in the moment that you start writing.
The result can be a list.
It can also be a long elaboration of a single noun or verb or other useful part of speech that gets you to that desirable or necessary adjective.
It can be a fully developed essay full of parts of speech pushing you in the direction of that adjective full-force, until we all start feeling that adjective on your behalf.
Need ideas for desirable adjectives?
Here are a few options, but please don’t feel limited to these ideas.
- Sexy/Hot/Romantic/Friendly/Platonic
- Beautiful/Handsome/Pretty/Lovely
- Spiritual/Religious/Traditional/Celestial/Ethereal/Earthy
- Familial (Can you knock out two writing prompts with one post? Check out James Finn’s writing prompt here in Prism & Pen. I’m still letting my response to his heavy question stew in my mind.)
- Frustrated/Overjoyed (Can you knock out three writing prompts with one post? Check out 💜 Victoria Quinn 💜’s writing prompt here in Transpiring, if you are an extremely productive writing prompt response aficionado who can work family, frustration, joy, and a supercharged adjective all into one post!)
- Happy/Content/Peaceful/Excited
- Angry/Sad/Afraid
- Affirmed
- Competent
- Thirsty/Hungry
- Protective/Motherly/Fatherly/Parently (Did I just invent an adjective? Can you?)
- Understood
- Fulfilled
- Fancy
- Strong/Tough/Bada**
- Desirable/Loving/Affectionate
- Unapologetic/Brazen/Bold
- Trans
- Queer
May no queer trans writer suffer from writer’s block ever again after this!
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