2020 has certainly given writers a lot of material, with headlines often reading more like speculative fiction than mainstream news. So, today we’re suggesting a few prompts that focus on current events. You have been asked to write a history of the first six months of 2020. Your publisher wants a table of contents. What […]
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Ready to curl up with a good story (or two) but don’t have the time to take on a novel? Each of these four volumes is a treasury of collected short stories written by masters of the form. Keep these on your shelf for when you need a literary fix in less than an hour.
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Whether you’re teaching kids to write, authoring stories for children, or working on a piece that uses a child’s voice or point of view, let these writing prompts designed for kids spark your imagination. What if dogs took over the world? What would they make humans do? What were some of your favorite toys when
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Ernest Hemingway said, “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” In order to bring people to life on the page, a writer must get to know her subjects extremely well. One way to do this is to interview your characters. Here are 25 questions
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The leaves are turning, the weather is getting colder and we’re heading into prime season for curling up under a blanket with a good book. If you haven’t already, why not add some of the most recent Pulitzer Prize winners to your TBR list. (And, for a complete list of Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction, please visit
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Here at Prospect 331, we’re all about exercising our right to VOTE. And this year, it’s perhaps more important than ever. With election day just around the corner, today’s prompts focus on elections. Write a scene in which your main character makes the decision to run for office. What drives the decision? What office are
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Writers are juggling a lot these days — jobs, political activism, a pandemic, teaching kids at home, the list goes on. With everything we’ve been hit with in 2020, it can be difficult to carve out time to sit down and write. Here are a few strategies for staying productive in trying times. 1. Keep
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There’s still a week before Halloween! You’ve got plenty of time to finish these spooky reads that are less than 350 pages. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson’s 1959 classic, has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at the notoriously unfriendly Hill
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Welcome to the very first installment of Wednesday Writing Prompts here at Prospect 331! It’s almost Halloween, and in the spirit of the season, we’ve gathered some creepy prompts to get your writing going this week. Your narrator comes home one day to find a stranger in their house, sitting on their couch watching TV
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1. Start with the end in mind. Before you start writing, think about what idea you want your reader to walk away with or what action you’d like them to take. If you’re writing an article for your newsletter or blog, do you want your reader to sign up for a class or donate to
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