Journaling + Fiction – December 26

“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”Woodrow Wilson Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about how you’ll most enrich the world during your life. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which an ally must remind your protagonist of your protagonist’s errand in the world.

Journaling + Fiction – December 25

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”Eleanor Roosevelt Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the worst criticism you received for doing the right thing. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist doesn’t do the right thing out of fear of being criticized.

Journaling + Fiction – December 24

“The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”C.S. Lewis Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a discipline about which you’re passionate that few others care about or understand. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist drives everyone else crazy talking about something s/he recently learned.

Journaling + Fiction – December 23

“Perfect may not always be pretty but excellence is always elegant.”Janna Cachola Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the most elegant solution to a problem you’ve ever seen. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist wins ugly.

Journaling + Fiction – December 22

“Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.”Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about something you’re should but are too scared to do. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist justifies his/her timidity with prudence.

Journaling + Fiction – December 21

“I think it’s easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn’t make a good citizen.”Eli Pariser Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about how you’ll expand your sources of knowledge and information to encounter ideas you don’t want to hear. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which reality pierces your protagonist’s filter...

Journaling + Fiction – December 20

“Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately.”Charles M. Sheldon Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about the habit you’ll replace with a better one in the new year. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist realizes that s/he has procrastinated too long.

Journaling + Fiction – December 19

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an experience when a person or thing’s absence allowed you to understand that what you felt about that person or thing wasn’t really love. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which a chance encounter with a...