Journaling + Fiction – March 11

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”Voltaire Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an activity or creation you appreciate as excellent that you could practice or achieve. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist envies instead of appreciates.

Journaling + Fiction – March 10

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.”Latin proverb Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a situation during which you maintained self-control when it would have been easier to lose it. Fiction writing prompt: Write the scene in which your protagonist first has too much to drink.

Journaling + Fiction – March 9

“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.”Clarence Day Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned when you watched an important project fail because members of the group responsible couldn’t place individual interests second. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must choose between achieving an important individual goal and...

Journaling + Fiction – March 8

“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...

Journaling + Fiction – March 7

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”Stendhal Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you fell in love with an idea or person based on a degree of hope that was too small. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist finds out the hard way that hope is not sufficient.

Journaling + Fiction – March 6

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”Winston Churchill Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned from failing at something at which you could have succeeded if you’d continued. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns that succeeding is not sufficient.

Journaling + Fiction – March 5

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”Aldous Huxley Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about something you know you don’t know. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns that s/he doesn’t know something s/he was sbsolutely confident s/he knew.

Journaling + Fiction – March 4

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”Albert Einstein Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about your reflections on the first time you experienced something you considered miraculous at the time. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist denies a moment of serendipitous...