I offer this prompt in the spirit of poet Rosemary Wahtola Trommer, “You can only do this right. There are so many ways to do it right.” It helps so much to approach our first drafts with this attitude, and if you get stuck, here is another secret: simply lower your standards.
The prompt: Write a childhood memory without leaving the child’s experience of the moment.
Here is the prompt in video form, with some additional explanation.