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Every week, a new prompt arrives in your inbox. Some are specific. Some are open. All are designed to make you write.

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Over time, your responses become a body of work — pieces you can revise, submit, and call your own.

A taste of the prompts

Writing, photography, poetry, painting and more. These are the kinds of starting points you'll receive.

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Your weekly prompt: Fiction writing

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Begin a piece with the sentence: 'The thing no one tells you about grief is...'

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Photography

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Photograph the same corner of your home at three different times of day. Which one feels like a different place?

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Poetry

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Write a poem where every line contains a color, but the color is never the point.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Painting

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Paint a color you associate with a memory. Skip the memory itself — only the color, and the shapes it makes.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Nonfiction writing

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Write toward a memory you have never told anyone.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Content writing

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Take a dull product description and rewrite it in under 80 words so someone actually wants to read it.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Song lyrics

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Write the first verse of a song about a small, ordinary moment — waiting for a bus, washing dishes, a text you haven't answered. Save the big feeling for the chorus.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Drawing

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Draw your hands doing something ordinary, without lifting your pen from the page.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Essay

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Write about a place that shaped you — not because something dramatic happened there, but because of what happened quietly.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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Your weekly prompt: Journaling

Hi there — here's your prompt for this week.

Write down five things you noticed today that you would have missed yesterday.

No deadline. No pressure. Just a prompt and a blank page.

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