Let's Write Together
a writing prompt for March
Hi writers,
Each month, toward the middle of the month, I offer a writing prompt for my paid subscribers as gratitude for their support.
If you haven’t worked with a prompt before, writing prompts are sentences, phrases, questions, objects, colors, shapes or media that are chosen by me and meant to jump start creative thinking in your writing practice. Each month I offer a new prompt, and I also offer pre-writing tips to help guide you through this experience. These prompts are crafted with the idea that they will be used by writers of memoir and creative nonfiction, but they could prove useful to other kinds of artists too, particularly visual artists and dancers. When you’re working with these prompts, don’t worry too much about “finishing” a piece of work — instead, try to think of it as an opportunity to spend a few minutes with your creativity.
Let’s begin:
Let’s take three minutes — and no more than that — for prep. Before we work with prompts, especially if we are working outside of the classroom, we should take time to prepare. This pre-writing process is important because it sets the stage for the writing you're going to do.