Literary – March 24

“It’s much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.” -Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born this date in 1919. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which an image causes your protagonist to offend someone s/he cares about.

Journaling + Fiction – March 24

“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.”Henri-Frédéric Amiel Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an event that caused you to lose respect for yourself and how you recovered it. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist demonstrates a lack of respect for an ally because your protagonist didn’t learn an important lesson in...

Big Questions – March 24

What device you’re currently making do with needs to be replaced? 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 minutes...

Romance – March 24

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered on this date in 1955. Writing prompt: Write a birthday party scene in which your protagonist gradually realizes everyone at the party knows something s/he does not.

Mystery – March 24

“Why? What you mean, ‘Why?’ Because you’re different, that’s why. You know, you’re like me. You want different things. You got somethin’ better than bein’ a waitress. You and me travelin’ together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma, and everybody’d know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.”- A movie version of Clyde Barrow, born...

SciFi/Fantasy – March 24

“The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it.” George Orr dreamed up a solution to overpopulation on this date in Ursula K. LeGuin’s 2002. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist creates reality using her/his imagination.

Secondary – March 24

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.” -John Wesley Powell, the first white person to navigate the Grand Canyon and explorer of much of what now typifies the American southwest, born on this date in 1834....

Primary – March 24

On this date in 1975, the beaver became the official symbol of Canada. Choose an animal to be your symbol and describe why that animal is a good representative of you.