How about writing something fun with your children, something that involves dreams and schemes?
Here’s the background: My husband and I traveled to California one year to participate in the Great Homeschool Convention in Ontario, California. At a Winchell’s Donut House in Las Vegas—have you ever tasted their pineapple fritters?!—we saw an interesting entrepreneur who had set up shop in the parking lot.
He was a man in his thirties and was washing a van parked near us. It was obvious to my husband and me that this service was done by appointment. The man had an old pick-up truck loaded with a water tank, an air compressor, cleaning supplies, towels, and even a generator for the power vacuum. He was not only washing the van but was also detailing it.
What a great idea! Instead of waiting for people to come to him, he had taken his business to them!
Here’s a writing prompt the whole family can do. You can dream together or separately. Will a new family business be born from it?
Now it’s your turn: Create a job for yourself. What can you do that someone else needs to have done? What supplies will you need? For whom will you work? How will you get the message out? For the fun of writing and planning, money is no object.
If you are stuck for ideas, try here or here or here.
Try not to get too tied up in the logistics of your idea. Just enjoy the dreaming!
