Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows, was born on this date in 1859. If you could talk with any animal, what animal would you choose and what is the first question you would ask? What do you think its answer would be?
“After a while you learn that everything stops.” -Bret Easton Ellis, born this date in 1964. Writing prompt: Describe from the point of view of your protagonist’s closest friend something your protag should stop but cannot or will not.
How deep is your love? 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 voice of a character...
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”Stendhal Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you fell in love with an idea or person based on a degree of hope that was too small. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist finds out the hard way that hope is not sufficient.
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“The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.” -William Boyd, born this date in 1952. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist realizes for the first time her/his significant influence on someone your protagonist believed was laregly unaware of her/his existence.
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“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.” -Robert Harris, born on this date in 1957. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist discovers whether s/he is brave.
Piet Mondrian was born on this date in 1872. Writing prompt: Describe his painting Landscape with Farmhouse from the points of view of your protagonist and your antagonist.
Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was first published in The New Republic on this date in 1923. Write a scene describing what the narrator had to do before sleep. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must...
