Journaling + Fiction – November 1

“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.”K’ung Fu-tzu Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you could afford to be a bit more humble about. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s lack of humility leads to your protagonist’s humiliation.

Journaling + Fiction – October 31

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”Elizabeth Gilbert Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the first time your heart was broken. Fiction writing prompt: Write the scene in which your protagonist’s heart was first broken.

Journaling + Fiction – October 30

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”James A. Michener Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about something you had to do three or four times to get right. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is imperiled by someone who makes only one try at something that needs at least two.

Journaling + Fiction – October 29

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”George Bernard Shaw Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an issue on which you should be more unreasonable. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist makes progress by making a...

Journaling + Fiction – October 28

“When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you’ll command the attention of the world.”George Washington Carver Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an unconventional approach you could take to improve one of your conventions. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist finds a unique solution to a common problem.

Journaling + Fiction – October 27

“If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: Die light.”Jean-Paul Sartre Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a mercy you should show yourself to die light. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist suffers from gaining the weight of rancor.

Journaling + Writing – October 26

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”Tony Blair Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the most difficult yes you ever had to give. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must say no to a request s/he desperately wants to say yes to.

Journaling + Fiction – October 25

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”K’ung Fu-tzu Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about mutual respect. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is treated by someone else exactly the way your protagonist treated that person.