Is it better to have hopes that you’ll never realize or no dreams at all? 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 spend 15-20...
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“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.” – Norman Maclean, born this date in 1902. Writing prompt: Write a scene representing a practice in your protagonist’s family that is as important to the family as religious faith.
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“Well, I’m all broken up over that man’s rights.” -Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry, which premiered on this date in 1971. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must choose between ignoring a person’s civil rights and preventing a crime.
“Have you looked in the mirror lately?”- Anung Un Rama, summoned by Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin to East Bromwich on this date in 1944. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which a new acquaintance assumes the worst about your protagonist because of your protagonist’s physical appearance.
In 1620, construction of the first permanent European settlement in what would later become the USA began after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in present-day Massachusetts. If you were building a new community, how would you start? Prompt Inspiration returns next year on 2nd January.
The poem we know as “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement C. Moore was published for the first time in the Troy, N.Y., Sentinel on this date in 1823. Explain your favorite thing about the winter holidays. Prompt Inspiration returns next year on 2nd January.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, led to his scheduled execution on this date in 1849, was pardoned at the last moment. On this and other topics, he said, “To live without hope is to cease to live.” Writing prompt: Write a scene in which events cause your protagonist to lose hope.
“Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.”Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about something you’re should but are too scared to do. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist justifies his/her timidity with prudence.
