Non-Fiction Prompt #14
Shashi Bhat • January 22Write about a time you were out of your element, a fish out of water. The "fish out of water" story is a classic one, with potential for tension,...
Non-Fiction Prompt #13
Shashi Bhat • January 19A favourite movie of mine is that 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow flick, Sliding Doors. The narrator runs to catch a subway train. In one version of her life,...
Non-Fiction Prompt #12
Shashi Bhat • January 18Recall an incident from your childhood and write about it, limiting your narration to the child's perspective, or the "Voice of Innocence." In...
Non-Fiction Prompt #11
Shashi Bhat • January 15There are four basic different kinds of conflict: Man against man Man against self Man against society Man against nature (or...
Non-Fiction Prompt #10
Shashi Bhat • January 13Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A challenge in creative writing is to use a variety of descriptive techniques to depict ordinary scenes and...
Non-Fiction Prompt #9
Shashi Bhat • January 12Write a scene of a personal experience that risks painting you in a negative light. For example, you could write about a time you bullied somebody,...
Non-Fiction Prompt #8
Shashi Bhat • January 11This prompt is adapted from an exercise in Brian Kitelely's 3 AM Epiphany. The original prompt, titled "Déjà Vu," asks the writer to write a...
Non-Fiction Prompt #7
Shashi Bhat • January 9Find a piece of music that reminds you of a time and place from your past. Play it in the background while you write about a personal...
Non-Fiction Prompt #6
Shashi Bhat • January 7Do something you've never done before. Write about the experience. You might perform spoken word, go to a gun range, drive on the highway at...
Non-Fiction Prompt #4
Shashi Bhat • January 5This exercise is inspired partly by Ernest Hemingway's minimalist writing style, and partly by an exercise from John Gardner's craft book, The Art...
