Big Questions – October 26

What do you consider to be your life’s greatest accomplishment? Journaling prompt: Spend 15-20 minutes writing your answer in the spirit of exploring yourself and the world around you. If you can answer...

Romance – October 26

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” -Pat Conroy, born this date in 1945. Writing...

Mystery – October 26

The gunfight at the OK Corral took place on this date in 1881. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is caught in a literal or metaphorical crossfire.

SciFi/Fantasy – October 26

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”- Jim Butcher, born this date in 1971. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which...

Secondary – October 26

“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.” -Beryl Markham, born on this date in 1902. Explain how you think something like that could happen...

Primary – October 26

Beryl Markham, one of the first female aviators and a record-setting pilot, was born on this date in 1902. She once said that if a person “has any greatness…, it comes to light, not in one...

Bum Glue

In her craft book Write Away: One Novelist’s Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life, Elizabeth George spends an entire chapter on the value of what she calls “bum glue.” She defines it as that which...