writing prompts for unsent

every breakup writes messages that never get sent. this is where they can exist without arriving.

• type out the text you almost sent last night
• write the letter you'll never send. start with dear you.
• say something you haven't said out loud to anyone. not even yourself.
• type out the message that's been sitting in your drafts for weeks
• write what you would've said if you'd picked up the last time they called
• the apology you never gave. write it now.
• finish this: i never told you that
• write the text you typed and deleted at 3am
• say the thing you swallowed so the fight would end
• if they read your mind right now, what would they find
• the goodbye you never got to say. say it.
• write what you wish you'd answered when they asked if you were okay
• finish this: the truth is i
• type the message you'll never have the nerve to send
• what did you want to say at the door but didn't
• write the version of i love you you couldn't say back then
• the question you were too scared to ask them. ask it here.
• type out what you rehearsed in the shower but never said
• finish this: what i really meant was
• write the confession you keep behind your teeth
• say what you couldn't say while they were still listening
• the words you saved for a conversation that never happened. write them.
• type the reply you wrote in your head a hundred times
• finish this: i should have told you
• write what you wanted them to know before they walked away
• the thing you almost confessed and then changed the subject. confess it now.
• type out the last thing you wish they'd heard from you
• write the message you keep starting and never finishing
• say the part you left out of the goodbye
• finish this: if i had been braver i'd have said
• write what you would text right now if you knew they'd never see it
• the words stuck in your throat the whole time. let them out.
• type the truth you hid inside i'm fine
• write what you wanted to scream but said nothing
• finish this: there's something i never admitted to you
• say the thing you were saving for the right moment that never came
• type out the message you almost sent and then turned your phone off
• write what you wish you'd said instead of okay
• the sentence you couldn't finish out loud. finish it here.
• type the confession you only make when it's dark
• write what you held back the night everything changed
• finish this: i never got to tell you that you
• say what you wanted to whisper but kept quiet
• type the message your hands wrote that your heart deleted
• write the thing you wish they'd known before it was too late
• the words you owe yourself, not them. write those.
• finish this: what i was too proud to say is
• type out the letter you read to no one and then closed
• write what you couldn't say without breaking, so you said nothing