You’ve got “Room to Write”

The only thing worse than a blank page (or better?) is a blank mind.

For a writer, however, it can feel like the end of the world.  Certainly, of that career that you are still struggling to get off the ground.

With the internet, of course, come lots of websites full of writing prompts.  Random.  Daily.  Whatever you need. And they are all useful—and used.

If you’d like something a little more portable—and, arguably, more substantive, I invite you to take a look at Bonni Goldberg’s Room to Write.

With 200 “daily invitations to a writer’s life,” you ought to be able to find something to jump-start those moments of blankness.

These “invitations” are different from the ordinary prompt in that they are accompanied by mini-essays on writing along with the assignment.  Each entry takes up a single page (of this smallish-sized book).  There’s the little essay: Goldberg’s own meditation on the day’s prompt.  There’s the assignment.  And, there’s an applicable quote or two from other writers.

Some of the assignments seem too complex and weighty for me when I’m just looking for a way to get my hand moving across the page.  Some don’t interest me.  Others are spot-on perfect.  And, of course, each entry’s classification changes with time.

You can work your way through in order.  Or you can open the book randomly and get to work.

Plenty of free prompts available elsewhere, of course.  But this is a useful find.