March 2, 2025 Writing Prompts for the Week

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Nicki Krawczyk
March 02, 2025

Happy Sunday! There’s a writing technique based on the idea of open loops and our natural human desire to close them. The idea is that when you finish your writing session in the middle of the sentence or in the middle of a scene, your brain will feel compelled to close that loop.

In theory, not only will you be more compelled to get back to work the next day, but your brain will also be working on your idea in the “background” while you go about your day. Not a bad little hack, eh?

Let’s dig into this week’s prompts…

This Week’s Prompts*

  1. The roads shined in only the way that rain on fresh asphalt can, and the fallen leaves made them slick, as well.

  2. As many times as I tried to tell her the cat was gone, my small daughter registered only resolute disbelief.

  3. Describe the first time a character gets a sunburn and how they navigate their day with it.

  4. "Pete. Peter. Pete!" It looked like I was daydreaming, I'm sure, but I wasn't even there at all.

  5. Each day, Rupa made the short trek across the street, from my house to hers, carrying the latest baked treats she'd devised.

  6. The snow fell softly, but Gideon fell hard.

  7. I know that the sound of rustling papers means the hour is almost up, but my freshman haven't yet discerned that the sound only prompts me to keep them longer

*How to Use These Prompts: The italicized prompts let you create your writing entirely from scratch; the non-italicized prompts are intended as your first line and jumping off point. But, at the same time, there are no rules. Write on!

Book(s) We’re Reading This Week

Such Kindness by Andre Dubus, III
After I finished the ebook I bought the print version, since I think I’m going to want to revisit this one again. Yes, it’s the story of an unemployed drug addict which, frankly, was almost enough to put me off reading. (Sometimes we need a break from the hardest truths, right?) But I’m so glad I stuck with it: By the end it took me to depths of emotion and hope I could never have predicted.

Grab it on Bookshop.org (and support local bookstores!)
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Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you knwo what you have to fix.

Domenick Dunne

✨It used to be just Oprah, but now it seems like every celebrity (and their mother) has a book club. This article serves up a round-up of the top ones and how they could affect your book’s (eventual, inevitable!) success.

🦫 It turns out that making the best use of our brains is a bit more complicated than it seems. This neuroscientist shares which tasks to do, and when, to get our very best creative output.

🟧 We all have things from our past to work through. In this article, we learn the art of using writing—and, believe it or not, Tetris—to heal what’s holding us back.

Top (Published) First Line of the Week

If every man is guilty of all the good he did not do, as Voltaire suggested, then I have spent a lifetime convincing myself that I am innocent of all the bad.

From All the Broken Places by John Boyne

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P.S.

Looking for a way to write for a living—and still get paid well? Check out this training about copywriting. If it was good enough for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joseph Heller, it might just be good enough for you, too. 😉

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