Open Doors in Your Writing
We share a lot of writing prompts here, many of them unconventional or genre-specific. Many prompts from the outside world are either too broad...
Your Parasocial Relationship
Inspired by Sue William Silverman's memoir, The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo Saxon Jew, this week's Write the Book...
We Welcome Our Octopi Overlords
A peer-reviewed research paper published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, suggests that Earth's original octopi came from outer space.
Researchers posit that...
Your Witch’s Legal Rights
In response to reports that the Scottish government plans to pardon people—mostly women—convicted under the terms of the Witchcraft Act of 1563, Legal History...
Whatever Happened to Trout Fishing in America?
We love characters with funky names and a great origin story.
In a post on Lit Hub, Walker Caplan shares the story of a college...
What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Love
During her interview with the Write the Book podcast, Caroline Leavitt (With or Without You), suggests this prompt: Write a page about two people who...
Did Witchcraft Help Win WW2?
Voodoo may have helped cause the downfall of Adolf Hitler, according to a 1943 article from the Detroit Evening Times shared on Strange Ago...
The Woman Who Gave Birth to a Cat
The Murders in History blog shares the story of Agnes Bowker, a 27-year-old woman claimed to have given birth to a cat.
This happened in...
The Adventures of History’s Youngest Pirates
We love kid gangs - from the Nazi fighters of 1940s comics to super-hero sidekicks, from the Goonies to Dumbledore's Army, kid gangs are...
Use Historical Figures for Inspiration
This week's Write the Book prompt is inspired by Nancy Means Wright, who passed away recently. In honor of Wright, draft a story featuring...
