Why write to a prompt

Writing from prompts can help you…

• Create new material for further development
• Discover new approaches to material already in-process
• Solve plotting problems
• Smoke out additional dimensions of your characters
• Remember that writing is FUN!

In particular, prompts that create some sort of tension – like forcing together two ideas that don’t quite fit – can really help us make a creative breakthrough.

Some good sources of writing prompts:

• The Pocket Muse, by Monica Wood
• The Sun Magazine
• Wild Mind, by Natalie Goldberg
• The Poet’s Companion, by Addonizio and Laux

Source: Jamie Morris, Woodstream Writers – http://www.woodstreamwriters.com