500,000 Lives. Write about one or many. You can share your response to this prompt below. ... [Continue Reading]
Writing Through the Pandemic: February 23, Number 3
Before it’s too late. You can share your response to this prompt below. ... [Continue Reading]
Writing Through the Pandemic: February 23, Number 2
The Place I Want to Get Back to. You can share your response to this prompt below. ... [Continue Reading]
Writing Through the Pandemic: February 23, Number 1
Tell me about your relationship to time--either right now or in relation to the past, or you can write about how your relationship to time has changed. You can share your response to this prompt below. ... [Continue Reading]
The Price to Be Paid
“One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen." --Leo Tolstoy
Tell me about the price you pay (or have paid) for being a writer.
... [Continue Reading]Writing Through the Pandemic: February 16, Number 2
Tell me what you’re hungry for. You can share your response to this prompt below. ... [Continue Reading]
Writing Through the Pandemic: February 16, Number 1
Write your own love song for no one in particular. Write it to anyone and everyone who has survived the past year. You can share your response to this prompt below. ... [Continue Reading]
Someone Who Loved Me
"At the end of the day people won't remember what you say or did, they will remember how you make them feel." — Maya Angelou
Describe someone who made you feel loved. Make the description so vivid that the reader feels loved, too.
... [Continue Reading]Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #105
Dear Writers, You may have noticed these past few weeks that my biweekly pandemic resources haven’t been arriving in your inbox each Monday and Friday the way they were before. I produced more than a hundred editions of these resources, dealing with self-care, politics, racism in America, social justice, and writing, but a new arrival in our family, seven-week-old Luna, a yellow lab pup, has taken over our lives. The time I used to have to listen to podcasts, scour the Internet for resources, read articles, go on social media, and read email has been sharply curtailed. Instead, Karyn and I have been trying to teach our new family member how to pee outdoors, why she shouldn’t bite us, and what a leash is for. We love her, but as everyone told us, having a puppy is just like having ... [Continue Reading]
Writing Through the Pandemic: February 9, Number 3
I still can’t believe….(when you think about the past year). You can share your response to this prompt below. ... [Continue Reading]
