Think about your favorite character in a book or a television show. In what ways are you like that character? In what ways are you different?
Writing prompt: Write the scene of your protagonist’s most self-deceptive presumption of victory.
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”Ralph Nader Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about how your daily citizenship routine varies from ideal. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist realizes s/he’s missed something important going on because s/he has failed to attend to a little bit of daily citizenship.
What’s your most irrational fear? 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 question in the...
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“We’s all poor nuts and things happen, and we just get mixed in wrong, that’s all.” – Eugene O’Neill in Anna Christie, which premiered on this date in 1921. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist realizes all the poor nuts surrounding her/him think s/he is the poorest nut of all.
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“I made this list of stuff that it’s time for me to try to do.” -Rick Moody Writing prompt: Write your protagonist’s five most important life goals at each of these moments in her/his life: On your protag’s 9th birthday. When your protag graduates from high school. On your protag’s 30th birthday. On your protag’s 65th...
“The gods’ most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers.”- Lois McMaster Bujold, born this date in 1949. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist regrets not being more careful about what s/he wished for.
Think about something you intended to do yesterday, but didn’t. What was it, and why didn’t you do it?
