“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds.” -Jeffrey Eugenides, born this date in 1960. Writing prompt: Extemporize in the voice of your protagonist at least 500 words about a wound known only to your protagonist.
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time somone extended to you a kindness you at the time felt you did not deserve. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is refused a kindness that would cost nothing to the person who refuses to...
What happened during the longest period you’ve ever been isolated from other humans? Journaling prompt: Spend 15-20 minutes writing your answer in the spirit of exploring yourself and the world around you. If you can answer with a simple “yes” or “no,” explain the sources or implications of your response. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene that forces a character in your story to answer the question, or...
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“She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.” -Jeffrey Eugenides, born this date in 1960. Writing prompt: Write the scene that first led your protagonist to this conclusion.
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“The real question is, ‘How should I conduct my life?’ rather than ‘What tools should I use?'”- Neil Postman, born this date in 1931. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which technology that’s supposed to make life easy gets in the way of achieving a goal.
“This is a story from the Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps the most remarkable — certainly the most successful — book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor.” On this date in 1978, the first episode of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast on BBC radio. Writing prompt: Write a scene forcing your protagonist conclude that his/her...
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” -US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., born on this date in 1841. Describe the experience you’d like to have that you think would most stretch your mind.
Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows, was born on this date in 1859. If you could talk with any animal, what animal would you choose and what is the first question you would ask? What do you think its answer would be?
