Literary – September 27

“You can’t lie to your soul.” -Irvine Welsh, born this date in 1958. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s soul announces that it’s been lied to one too many times.

Literary – September 26

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” -TS Eliot, born this date in 1888. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist mistakes an end for a beginning.

Literary – September 25

“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.” -William Faulkner, born this date in 1897. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist uses facts to disguise the truth.

Literary – September 24

“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, born this date in 1896. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist awakes at 3:00 for the seventh straight morning.

Literary – September 23

“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Walter Lippmann, born this date in 1889. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is the only person willing to challenge conventional wisdom.

Literary – September 22

“I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.” -Fay Weldon, born this date in 1931. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist commits a grievous error because s/he confidently  and erroneously predicted what was going to happen next.

Literary – September 21

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings — words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.” -Stephen King, born this date in 1947. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s words are too...

Literary – September 20

“Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.” -Maxwell Perkins, born this date in 1884. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist rejects something good because s/he fears the trouble that might accompany it.