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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...

Journaling + Fiction – December 18

“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.”Vittorio Alfieri Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the most trying experience you’ve lived through. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist feels s/he would rather die than continue to experience the situation.

Journaling + Fiction – December 17

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”G.K. Chesterton Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time being open-minded led you to bite off more than you could chew. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which a new idea prevents your protagonist from closing his/her mind before taking the idea a step too...

Journaling + Fiction – December 16

“Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they’re gonna fool you, and then they do it.”James Randi Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the last time you got fooled but found the humor in the experience. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your antagonist tells your protagonist that your protagonist is about to get fooled and then proceeds to...

Journaling + Fiction – December 15

“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much;wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”William Cowper Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you don’t know about a topic about which you’ve earned significant expertise. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which an ally humbles your protagonist by asking a question that reveals your protagonist isn’t as...

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