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.

Journaling + Fiction – March 10

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.”Latin proverb Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a situation during which you maintained self-control when it would have been easier to lose it. Fiction writing prompt: Write the scene in which your protagonist first has too much to drink.

Journaling + Fiction – March 9

“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.”Clarence Day Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned when you watched an important project fail because members of the group responsible couldn’t place individual interests second. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must choose between achieving an important individual goal and...

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.