Maybe you have absolutely no idea where to start but have always wanted to try being a writer. Maybe you want to write the great American novel or you thought you'd write a poem about hidden life of a grain of sand. Maybe you just need a little inspiration to get you started or you find yourself just a little stuck. Maybe you find yourself trying to break out of your comfort zone or mix things up at work. Whatever your reason for landing here, practicing a little creativity can impact your life in ways you didn't expect.
But let's be honest. Creativity is a muscle and it needs exercise to work properly. That's where this series comes in. With any luck, this series will get your creative juices flowing and get you thinking in ways you hadn't before. A new prompt will appear once or twice a week. It's up to you what you do with it.
Oh, and be sure to check out our Community-Written Stories books and help us add to one of six stories we are writing and circulating this summer.
Writing Prompt for July 6th, 2021:
It seems like everything has its own month these days. Among other things and other named days, July is Read An Almanac Month. But despite the seemingly ridiculousness of that statement, an almanac is actually a really unique annually published book. In it you will find tide tables, astronomical charts, weather forecasts, farmers’ planting dates, folk wisdom, advise and more. It is one of the places that Benjamin Franklin made a name for himself as Poor Richard, dispensing advice and witticisms and sayings that would endure even to this day. We wouldn't have sayings such as "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" without them.
So here is your prompt for the week:
Read some or all of an almanac. Libraries all have them, as do supermarket book/magazine sections. Then try to write as if you wrote for one of them.
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