Big Questions – June 25

What’s the best advice you’ve ever given? Journaling prompt: Spend 15-20 minutes writing your answer in the spirit of exploring yourself and the world around you. If you can answer with a simple “yes” or “no,” explain the sources or implications of your response. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene that forces a character in your story to answer the question, or spend 15-20 minutes answering the...

Romance – June 25

“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.” -Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, born this date in 1903. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is forced to make one person s/he loves unhappy by making another person s/he loves happy.

Mystery – June 25

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, born in India on this date in 1903. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must choose not to tell the truth and keep his/her job or tell the truth and lose his/her job.

SciFi/Fantasy – June 25

“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”- Eric Arthur Blair, born this date in 1903. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must choose between fighting dirty and losing the fight.

Literary – June 24

Pablo Picasso was first exhibited in Paris by art dealer Ambroise Vollard on this day in 1901. This painting is among Picasso’s creations that year: Writing prompt: Describe from your protagonist’s point of view what this painting shows, and then do the same from your antagonist’s POV.

Journaling + Fiction – June 24

“I, for one, have never met a fanatic with a sense of humor. Nor have I ever known anyone capable of making a joke at his own expense become a fanatic.”Amos Oz Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you’ve learned observing someone with no sense of humor. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which an ally skewers your protagonist for taking a subject too...

Big Questions – June 24

Is there a talent that can’t be taught? Journaling prompt: Spend 15-20 minutes writing your answer in the spirit of exploring yourself and the world around you. If you can answer with a simple “yes” or “no,” explain the sources or implications of your response. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene that forces a character in your story to answer the question, or spend 15-20 minutes answering the question in...

Romance – June 24

Jacqueline Bouvier and US Senator John F. Kennedy announced their engagement on this date in 1953. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist expects to be asked to accept a proposal of marriage and is surprised not to receive it.