Prompt: Imagine Yourself Back Home
This week’s Write the Book prompt was suggested by Jennifer Egan, who assigns this exercise to her students. Imagine yourself in a physical place, such...
Slow Down, Notice, Honor
This week's Write the Book prompt was suggested by Vermont artists Lois Eby and Nadine Budbill, wife and daughter of the late poet David...
Prompt: What Happened on Broadway?
This week’s Write the Book prompt was suggested by guest Maya Rodale, who said it was inspired by the podcast conversation. Rodale suggests writing a...
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Beginning writers often ask where they can find ideas. Sometimes there's a simple answer, but often a story's gestation is too complex to convey...
Prompt: Who Were Your Grandparents?
During an interview with the Write the Book podcast, Anne Lamott suggests writing a memory of one or more of your grandparents, or about...
10 Tips for Using Journaling to Strengthen Your Fiction
Confession: The Editorial We is terrible at keeping a journal. I started more than a few journals in grade school, but never knew what...
Prompt: What Do You Miss?
During her interview with the Write the Book podcast, poet Maggie Smith suggests a prompt inspired by the work of another poet. In Joe...
Can You Follow Directions?
During her interview with the Write the Book podcast, Jessica Hendry Nelson suggests a writing prompt inspired by the title of her memoir, If Only...
What Are You Leaving Undone?
During her interview with the Write the Book podcast, Carolyn Conger suggests a prompt inspired by her book, Through the Dark Forest: Transforming Your...
