Big Questions – June 25

What’s the best advice you’ve ever given? 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...

Journaling + Fiction – June 25

“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”Ray Bradbury Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes...

Romance – June 25

“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.” -Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, born this date in 1903. Writing prompt:...

Mystery – June 25

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, born in India on this date in 1903. Writing prompt: Write a...

SciFi/Fantasy – June 25

“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”- Eric Arthur Blair, born this date in 1903. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must choose...

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...

Literary – June 24

Pablo Picasso was first exhibited in Paris by art dealer Ambroise Vollard on this day in 1901. This painting is among Picasso’s creations that year: Writing prompt: Describe from your...