Journaling + Fiction – March 8

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time somone extended to you a kindness you at the time felt you did not deserve. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is refused a kindness that would cost nothing to the person who refuses to...

Journaling + Fiction – March 7

“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.

Journaling + Fiction – March 6

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”Winston Churchill Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned from failing at something at which you could have succeeded if you’d continued. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns that succeeding is not sufficient.

Journaling + Fiction – March 5

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”Aldous Huxley Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about something you know you don’t know. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns that s/he doesn’t know something s/he was sbsolutely confident s/he knew.

Journaling + Fiction – March 4

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”Albert Einstein Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about your reflections on the first time you experienced something you considered miraculous at the time. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist denies a moment of serendipitous...

Journaling + Fiction – March 3

“The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.”Henry Fielding Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned the last time you let your heart rule your head. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist lets his/her emotions override common sense.

Journaling + Fiction – March 2

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”Eleanor Roosevelt Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned when someone left you to do work that person should have done. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is abandoned to accomplish a menial and difficult task by the person responsible for doing it.

Journaling + Fiction – March 1

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned from an experience when a lighter touch would have been more successful than the heavier hand you applied. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist fails to achieve a major goal because of her/his...