Writing Prompt

For each issue of Literary Mama, Literary Reflections shares a writing prompt, inviting our readers to respond. Our editors provide feedback on the responses we receive and we post our favorites on the blog. This month’s writing prompt is inspired by Lania Knight’s essay, “Drink Me,” and Christie Megill’s essay, “Books Bind Us.”

We often have more reasons to not write than to write, and, as mothers especially, seemingly insurmountable obstacles between ourselves and our notebooks or laptops.

Write about a time when a moment of epiphany enlightened an aspect of motherhood you were struggling with.

Where our grand ideas and reality collide, we find struggles but also authenticity. This month’s prompt from Literary Reflections encourages us to consider a time reality didn’t match expectations.

Today, free write about where you come from.

Free write with today’s photo writing prompt.

For each issue of Literary Mama, Literary Reflections shares a writing prompt inviting our readers to respond. Our editors provide feedback on these responses, and we post our favorites on the blog. This month’s writing prompt is inspired by Natalie Singer-Velush’s essay, “Bernadette and Me,” and Cheryl Anne Latuner’s essay, “Baby at My Breast—The Path to a Book.”

Free write with today’s photo prompt.

Today, as the seasons change, free write about what you wish to keep and what you will cast away.

For each issue of Literary Mama, Literary Reflections shares a writing prompt inviting our readers to respond. Our editors provide feedback on these responses, and we post our favorites on the blog. This month’s writing prompt is inspired by Jennie Robertson’s essay, “She Writes,” and Miriam Mandel Levi’s essay, “Raising Readers: A Mother’s Tale From The Trenches.”

Today’s prompt asks you to free write about how you make time and space to stand still in our hectic world.