by Eileen | Apr 3, 2022 | Writing prompts
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. — Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code This sculpture is made of the very barbed wire once used to corral the Great Plains, fencing out the bison and contributing to their...
by Eileen | Mar 28, 2022 | Writing prompts
At the hill’s foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory, and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they had been...
by Eileen | Mar 21, 2022 | Writing prompts
Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. — Catherine Fisher Not everyone wants to spend an evening roaming around an abandoned prison, especially one with a strong...
by Eileen | Mar 7, 2022 | Writing prompts
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. — Theodore Roethke One of the best parts of finishing a great story can be seeing how the author got us from beginning to end. While most common in mysteries, almost any story can...
by Eileen | Feb 28, 2022 | Writing prompts
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. — Morris West Spending time around people who complain all the time is exhausting. Reading about people who are perpetually complaining, getting knocked down, and...
by Eileen | Feb 21, 2022 | Writing prompts
A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide. — Rahul Gandhi While characters need to struggle, they also need a writer’s...
