Secondary – November 19

If a time-traveling visitor from the future offered you the chance to ask one question, what would you ask and what would you do with the answer?

SciFi/Fantasy – November 19

Born on this date in 1875, explorer Hiram Bingham later discovered the Incan city of Machu Picchu. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist gets in trouble for misusing something with spiritual...

Primary – November 19

Which of your five senses is your favorite, and how could your other four senses make up for that if you lost your favorite one?

Literary – November 19

On this date in 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on a Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which an obstacle comes into direct conflict...

Romance – November 19

Stage and screen beauty Gene Tierney was born on this day in 1920. In the acclaimed Otto Preminger film Laura, she plays a woman so entrancing that the detective investigating her murder falls in love with...

Mystery – November 19

On this date in 1930, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow carried out the first of their series of bank robberies. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist observes the opposite of the adage,...