Writing Prompts for the Now
4 min readMay 5, 2022
As in the Spring 2022 Dumpster-Fire-Down-to-a-Smolder Now.
First a confession: In late 2020, I pitched an idea for a book of writing prompts that spoke to our current reality to my agent. He was not at all interested. His basic answer was like that’s the last thing the world needs. And maybe he was right, but sometimes we write what we need. And what I need is a way through this. I’ve never been one to prescribe…
