This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts – January 20, 2026

Here are this week’s prompts:

1. Write a post inspired by the word resident.
2. Write a post in exactly eleven (11) sentences.
3. Write a story that starts with the line “Sometimes, all you need to do is completely make an ass of yourself and laugh it off to realize that life isn’t so bad after all.”
4. If it was possible to transplant your brain to stay alive for another 100 years, would you?
5. What’s something that when you were learning it, you thought you’d never use it, but in reality, you ended up using it a lot?
6. What is your opinion on tattoos?

Sometimes, all you need to do is completely make an ass of yourself and laugh it off to realize that life isn’t so bad after all. I learned this the hard way last year. I was at an appointment with my doctor, discussing the details of cryonics, when I told my doctor that I also wanted to donate all of my organs. Finally, I admitted to him that if it were possible, I would like to keep my body alive by transplanting a young brain into this head of mine, therefore maintaining myself but having the mind of a youngster. My doctor began to tell me the story of when he started as a resident at his first hospital, and he met someone who had been brought back to life after being a participant in a cryonics study. He said that the guy didn’t live very long, but they were able to donate his organs, which were healthy after they thawed.
He continued to say that they took the guy’s brain and put it into a kid’s head who was born legally brain-dead due to complications. Apparently, the little kid grew up to become a doctor. I told him there was no way that kid was a doctor; he was probably some wacko that lived in a sewer drain. He told me the story was about him; he was that boy. Wow, I felt stupid!

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My opinion on tattoos? Well, I lost count of how many I have and I have a preset appointment for May to get a new one. I think I like them. Not all of them. Some are just such amazing works of art it is hard not to like them.