Today is Amelia Earhart Day, which celebrates the most famous female airplane pilot of 1920s and 1930s. If you could fly anywhere right now, where would you fly and what would you do when you got there?
Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon on this date in 49 BC. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist intentionally crosses a family member or close friend’s bright line of trust.
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”William Shakespeare Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a moment of need when you did not show sufficient kindness to yourself. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s kindness is repaid with hostility.
How has the world most changed in the past 10 years? 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...
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On this date in 1845, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett began corresponding after Elizabeth received the following note from Robert: “I love you.” Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must decide on and execute the best strategy for using her/his one chance to earn the attention of a partner who is unaware of your protag’s existence.
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“Let me tell ya something. Nowadays, everybody’s gotta go to shrinks, and counselors, and go on ‘Sally Jessy Raphael’ and talk about their problems. What happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type. That was an American. He wasn’t in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do.”- Tony Soprano, who premiered on this date in 1999. Writing prompt: Write a scene in...
“The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer.” – Jack Finney, in whose 1956 a man was shot and killed on this date by a gun that had been discovered the day before and remained locked in a New York City police department safe. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is attacked by an opponent with a...
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” -Thomas Paine in Common Sense, published on this date in 1776. Explain why you think Paine is correct or incorrect.
