"The grand essentials
of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to
hope for."
-- Allan K. Chalmers
1. Write fifteen to twenty
physical descriptions of happiness. Avoid cliches such as "walking on air."
Concentrate on moments of happiness in your life. How are they unique?
2. If the Ghost of Christmas
Past visited you, where could he take you to cause as much happiness as
Scrooge felt? Write that scene: where and when has the ghost brought you?
How do you show your happiness at returning there? Do this for a character
to develop their own memories and experiences of happiness.
3. Choose a happy occasion
and write a scene that breathes new life into it. Or, portray a happy narrator
at a time or occasion that we don't assume is a happy one.