Journaling + Fiction – March 18

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”Helen Keller Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a moment you were sustained by hope alone. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist discovers that hope is not a strategy.

Journaling + Fiction – St. Patrick’s Day

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”G.K. Chesterton Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you felt you deserved mercy but did not receive it. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist receives mercy that rightfully should have been extended to someone else.

Journaling + Fiction – March 16

“If you’re waiting for fair, it comes to town once a year.”dbschlosser Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the most important lesson you’ve learned from experiencing unfairness. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your antagonist ignores your protagonist’s plea for fair treatment.

Journaling + Fiction – March 15

“It is not that we are given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”Seneca Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about taking the first step toward achieving the most important action or project you’re procrastinating. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist productively wastes...

Journaling + Fiction – March 14

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”Joseph Joubert Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you felt that someone loved you more than you deserved. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s kindness goes unrewarded.

Journaling + Fiction – March 13

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”Albert Einstein Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time when you trusted someone you knew in your heart of hearts that you should not trust. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is shamed to be fooled a second time.

Journaling + Fiction – March 12

“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”Albert Szent-György Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the last time a light bulb went off over your head. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist escapes a sticky wicket by using a routine item in an unintended way.

Journaling + Fiction – March 11

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”Voltaire Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an activity or creation you appreciate as excellent that you could practice or achieve. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist envies instead of appreciates.