Journaling + Fiction – June 23

“If the crow speaks to the fox, he speaks to him from the top of the tree.”Charles de Leusse Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you got caught too near someone you knew better than to get close to. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist lures an adversary too close for either’s safety.

Journaling + Fiction – June 22

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”Harold R. McAlindon Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a trail you felt good to leave. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist leaves a trail that no one follows.

Journaling + Fiction – June 21

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”George Orwell Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you thought you might be going mad because none around you admitted seeing what you saw. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist clings to the truth...

Journaling + Fiction – June 20

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”Epictetus Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned from an experience when someone made you so angry that their actions controlled you. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your antagonist goads your protagonist into making an existentially dangerous mistake.

Journaling + Fiction – June 19

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”Ferdinand Foch Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what’s currently kindling in your soul. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist achieves an important goal through sheer burning need to fulfill her/his soul.

Journaling + Fiction – June 18

“The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”Erwin Schrödinger Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a perspective on or solution to a challenge you know all your friends would think at least a bit odd. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s hugely innovative, fantastically...

Journaling + Fiction – June 17

“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”Tertullian Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a hope you’ve held long enough to grow impatient. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s patience with hoping finally runs out.

Journaling + Fiction – June 16

“Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.”William Shakespeare Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about something for which you should forgive someone. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your antagonist pleads with your protagonist for mercy.