One thing I love doing is creating fun writing activities to inspire people to have fun with writing and let their imaginations soar. This started about 10 years ago when my local library asked me to run a regular writing group for teens.
Instead of teaching people ‘how’ to write, I create a fun activity with a writing prompt of some sort to kickstart their imaginations.
Over the years I’ve been doing this group, I have created hundreds of writing prompts and activities for kids, and recently I have been looking at ways to use these to reach more people.
I had a program for a while where I sent out writing activities each month, but this didn’t take off in the way I had hoped.
In 2018, I started my 12 Days of Christmas program. This is a free program where I send out a writing activity every day for 12 days, starting on Christmas day. This is one way I can create writing activities and share them with people. I have fun creating prompts and participants have fun playing with them.
Last year, I published Genie in my Drink Bottle and other fun writing prompts, a book with 52 writing prompts that have been used in the writers groups. This is available in both print and ebook format and has been sold around the world.
A while ago, I had a crazy idea of putting together a book for each month of the year and having it as a subscription. I hadn’t done much about it, until a friend pushed me further. Today I put together the prompts for January, February, and March. That’s 91 writing prompts! I have hundreds more that I’ve used, so doing the rest of the year is mostly a matter of sorting them all out, and coming up with a few new ones. My friend has designed all the covers! There are a few more details to work out, but it looks like I’ll have a new product for next year!
If you would like to help with sorting out all the prompts, I’m wanting to find out what you think about with the different months of the year. Click here to let me know.
Sometimes I joke that I’m the queen of writing prompts… maybe this isn’t so much a joke.
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