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Writerly Roundup

Writing Prompt: Shoveling Snow

When have you felt consumed or trapped by the daily demands of your world? How do you free yourself so you have space, time, and energy to write?

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | October 2010 | By Karna Converse


Writing Prompt: Reading Zelda

Of your child(ren)’s developmental milestones, which one took you most by most surprise? Did you reflect on your own role in this event? Did you take credit or simply marvel…

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | August 2010 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: On the Other Side of the Magic Mirror

What secrets has your mother shared with you? If you looked in her magic mirror, who would you see?

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | July 2010 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: All Things Edible, Random and Odd

What memories would you piece together if you wrote a narrative of your father? Would it be a journey of smells, sounds, gestures, expressions, or a combination?

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | June 2010 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: Mothering My Writing

In this month’s essay, Jeanine DeHoney vividly recalls the habits of the woman she called “Evelyn” but lovingly referred to as “mom.” She writes, “I wrote about the bright red…

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | May 2010 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: A Work in Progress

Before children, what fantasies did you construct about childbirth and parenting? How did you come to terms with the disparity between your dreams and reality?

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | April 2010 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: Love & Literacy in the Time of Parenting

Where has technology intersected with your parenting? Has technology impacted your child’s literary experience? Where does the value of books and electronic media rank in your household? Why?

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | March 2010 | By Christina Marie Speed


Writing Prompt: Never My-zulled

Are there foibles from your past that have become family legends? Have they sprouted exaggerated details like leafy tree branches, or do they remain anchored in family lore as a…

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | February 2010 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: Writer Duck

How do you carve out much-needed personal time, away from daily responsibilities? What activities do you turn to during those private moments?

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | January 2010 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: Why Can’t I Be More Like Hemingway?

If you could live in anyone’s life, whose would it be? What would your slice of life look like?

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | December 2009 | By Merle Huerta


Writing Prompt: Confessions of a Groupie

In this month’s essay, Confessions of a Groupie, Sarah Raleigh Kilts narrates a journey she’s taken with The Motherlode, a Berkeley-based mothers’ writing group. They “have been like lifeguards through…

Literary Reflections, Writing Prompts | September 2009 | By Merle Huerta


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