Writing prompt #108: HAPPINESS

Hi Everyone,

After a spate of bad news prompts, I thought I’d turn my attention to something even harder: writing about happiness!

French novelist Henry de Montherlant once stated that “happiness writes in white ink on the white page.”

The even more famous opening line to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina sums up the case against literary joy: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Why does happiness get pigeon-holed as boring? Or, at best, a delusional prelude to disaster?

YOUR PROMPT: Time to remedy the situation—and prove the cynics wrong!—by writing a 2-3 page scene of unadulterated, nuanced joy. Hint: rich, sensory details are the keys to both happiness and misery (and everything in-between).

Have fun with this!

Abrazos,

Cristina