Big Questions – July 5

What choice you made thinking it would make a minor difference in your life has had a major impact? 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...

Romance – July 5

On this date in 1946, Louis Réard introduced the bikini. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist has chosen an outfit for seduction but learns it  is actually a source of amusement.

Mystery – July 5

Cecil Rhodes was born on this date in 1853. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist comes to believe that a fabulously rapacious criminal who escaped punishment and has rehabilitated his/her reputation by using his/her ill-gotten gains to do good works is doing bad works, too.

SciFi/Fantasy – July 5

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”- Isaac Newton, who on this date in 1687 published his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s achievement of a small goal distracts...

Literary – July 4

“If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” -Neil Simon, born this date in 1927. Writing prompt: Write a scene from earlier in your protagonist’s life, when s/he had a chance to take a risk and did not — a decision that has caused regret ever since.

Journaling + Fiction – July 4

“Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.”Abraham Lincoln Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the greatest kindness you could extend someone in your life right now. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which a service your protagonist is counting on washes out.

Big Questions – July 4

What would your life look like if you were truly free? 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 answering the...

Romance – July 4

“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne, born this date in 1804. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist loses her/his most intimate friend because your protag revealed her/his best nature.