prompts
Get your writing session moving with improvisational, reflective, and generative prompts.
Use the Prompts dropdown on the header for archives of each category or, for a random pool of prompts, go to LOTTERY.
Use these short exercises to wake up your language and image mind.
Tuning exercises make space to ask questions of where and who you today and give attention to how your own mind is working.
Generators help conjure new seeds of characters, scenes, events, voices.
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- generators
- notes on practice
- tuning exercises
- warmups

Stanza Letter Game

Valley Fold (Generator)

Sound Translations

Something from the Empty

Minute Lists (12)

Useful Knowledge

24-hr Image Bank

Ordinary Intensities

Make a New Edge

Light on Two Sides

Image Wheel

A derivation

Your houses

Minute Lists (11)

After Burrows

Your Languages

OEDelighter

Magnificence Tuner

For Stuck Places

Find a Daily Teacher

Excursion Scanner

Images not Arguments

Minute Lists (10)

Image Surround

Provisioning Warmup

Super Compact

Repeat with Drift

Decontrolling Gerund Generator

Conversions

Future History Object

Repair Manual

Sticky Things

Triplets

We Approach

Something Hidden

Walking as Occasion

Pyramid Character Generator

Pastoral Scene Generator

Elemental Scene Builder

Beacons and Guides

Relay Self-Interview

In a Borrowed Voice

Credo Refresher

Circumference Tuner

Minute Lists (9)

Stuffed Paragraph

Syntax Shapes

Word Pairs

Collector Warmup

Chord Moods

Epigraph Heart

Populate the Silences (2)

Let it Ask Questions

Tutelary Saints

Minute Lists (8)

parable of a minor figure

mind tenants

minute lists (7)

alternating attention

haha

10 slow

today’s answers

word collection

possible shapes

observational spill

ceremony of transition

pleasure note

minute lists (6)

following paragraph (generator)

following paragraph (tuning)

map without names

new room with old images

mind lodgers

minute lists (5)

special energy

word sifter

hearing a new voice

edge of the field

listening series

scene from details

Lynda Barry’s daily diary

filter approach

passing and lurking

collecting and fullness
Want something more extended? Go to WORKSHOPS.