What did Home Look Like to You?
This week's Write the Book prompt was offered by guest Bill McKibben, who suggests writing about your childhood home.
Archaeologists Discover Worship of Unknown Gods at Ancient Desert Monument
The more digging archaeologists accomplish, the more gods they find. You'd think by now, they'd have learned their lesson. The latest as-yet-unidentified gods were...
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Persons with Alice in Wonderland syndrome experience significant changes in their perception, without explanation. Objects may seem much larger than they are or appear...
A Unique Way to Unalive Yourself
In early modern Europe, depressed Christians - predominately Protestants and predominately women - took to an unusual way to die by suicide: They killed...
5 Unusual Places to Find Writing Prompts
In a post on the Novlr blog, Pamela Koehne-Drube suggests some unusual places to find story prompts. She suggests the following tools and websites:
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The Strangest Non-Fictional Deaths
If you ever thought you were destined for a death that is baroque and complicated, you'll fit in with a lot of writers from...
The World’s Worst Parties
Cracked has a breakdown of the world's worst parties, including:
The Ball of the Wild Men. In honor of the impending wedding of her...
The 1,600-Year Old Demon-Slaying Mega Sword
Archaeologists have unearthed an oversized ceremonial iron sword and a bronze mirror shaped like a shield from a 1,600-year-old burial mound in Nara, Japan....
The Little Executioner That Couldn’t
We may never know the identity of history's most fumbling executioner, but any such list would include the name Jack Ketch near the top.
In...
What’s Happening Along the Corpse Road
Have you ever walked one of Europe's Corpse Roads? Traversing the rural countryside, you might encounter one of these roadways, paths marked with crucifixes...
