Journaling + Fiction – April 3

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”J.K. Rowling Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you had to stand up to a friend or relative. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist finds out that an ally isn’t helping her/his quest.

Journaling + Fiction – April 2

“Learn as if you were to live forever.”Mahatma Gandhi Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a topic you want to learn more about before you die. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist tries to teach a valuable lesson to someone who doesn’t care to learn it.

Journaling + Fiction – April 1

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”Edith Wharton Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an opportunity you could seize right now to amplify the impact of a person or group that’s spreading light. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist gets burned while spreading light.

Journaling + Fiction – March 31

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”Aristotle Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about your power to say no. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist deploys The Bartleby Stratagem: “I would prefer not to.”

Journaling + Fiction – March 30

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”Oscar Wilde Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned from getting away with something you shouldn’t have gotten away with. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist suffers on learning that turnabout is fair play.

Journaling + Fiction – March 29

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you felt cruelly misjudged and later realized it wasn’t that big a deal. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is paralyzed by imagining worse than the worst that could happen.

Journaling + Fiction – March 28

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”Scott Adams Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the act of kindness you’ve observed that’s caused the most impressive ripple. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s bacon is saved by a person to whom s/he previosuly extended a kindness your...

Journaling + Fiction – March 27

“Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy.”Warren G. Bennis Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a person you admire for staying youthful despite his or her chronological age. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist realizes that s/he is considered elderly...