Lightning Droplets

Little specks of inspiration and creativity for writers and artists

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A planner for writers that has also helped me with depression and anxiety!

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Gardening puns, a writing prompt, and the 3 most important questions to ask your characters (and maybe yourself).

#amwriting #WritingPrompts #characters #fiction #deadlyplants #WritingCommunity #Authors

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"Publish and Thrive has shifted my mindset completely, from thinking of writing as something to squeeze into the minutes between my real life to thinking of writing as my purpose, my meaning, and the way I show up in the world."

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A poem for my daughter on her third birthday. <3 https://t.co/B35gHAMVxK

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Shelter and Write Prompt 28: Thinking of Others

Write about someone who is affected by COVID-19 in a very different way than you are. You could imagine someone fictional or write about someone you know. You https://t.co/1APj1K0D9n

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Shelter and Write Prompt 16: Writing Together

Collaborate on a piece of writing. 

Find at least one other person to write together with. Perhaps you create a thread on social media, or enlist your family. https://t.co/PqSQdF9qBR

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Shelter and Write Prompt 29: Ekphrasis

Find a work of visual art about COVID-19 that moves you. You could consider these works of street art. It could be a photograph from the news. It could even be a meme, https://t.co/HAirWKh9A7

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Shelter and Write Prompt 14: Everything Changes

Think of one very small change that gives a window into life right now. It could be the coloring your toddler left on the wall since they are home all day, the https://t.co/3YzQyGqpvN

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Shelter and Write Prompt 20: The Worry Solution

What is your biggest anxiety right now? Imagine that you hear a knock on the door and it is someone who has the solution to your worries. 

Who is it who https://t.co/FtnPOvOi5K

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Shelter and Write Prompt 18: The Plot Twist

Think of a character (or even yourself!) for whom the pandemic is a major turning point, a plot twist. 

What was the trajectory before this year? What were they https://t.co/xtRXpvSqNX

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Shelter and Write Prompt 20: The Worry Solution

What is your biggest anxiety right now? Imagine that you hear a knock on the door and it is someone who has the solution to your worries. 

Who is it who https://t.co/FtnPOvOi5K

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Shelter and Write Prompt 18: The Plot Twist

Think of a character (or even yourself!) for whom the pandemic is a major turning point, a plot twist. 

What was the trajectory before this year? What were they https://t.co/xtRXpvSqNX

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Shelter and Write Prompt 14: Everything Changes

Think of one very small change that gives a window into life right now. It could be the coloring your toddler left on the wall since they are home all day, the https://t.co/3YzQyGqpvN

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Shelter and Write Prompt 22: Responding to Inspiration

Find a poem that resonates with you in these times. You could check out these poems chosen by poets from Emory University, these collaborations sponsored by https://t.co/wI9jnFTwB4

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Shelter and Write Prompt 23: The Structure of Days

Write a detailed description of current daily life. Perhaps you will use your own life as the basis for a poem or essay. Or you could imagine a fictional https://t.co/hTwUTF2kIk

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Shelter and Write Prompt 27: Good News

Find a headline or story that is good news. It might be the way that neighbors are helping each other. It might be the hope that our society comes out of the pandemic https://t.co/G6ZHpzUDpe

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Shelter and Write Prompt 20: The Worry Solution

What is your biggest anxiety right now? Imagine that you hear a knock on the door and it is someone who has the solution to your worries. 

Who is it who https://t.co/FtnPOvOi5K

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Shelter and Write Prompt 24: Forbidden Places

Think of a place you cannot be right now. Maybe it is with someone you love, or a vacation you were planning, or even just your local hang out. Or perhaps it’s a https://t.co/0BP0QORNtJ

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Shelter and Write Prompt 23: The Structure of Days

Write a detailed description of current daily life. Perhaps you will use your own life as the basis for a poem or essay. Or you could imagine a fictional https://t.co/hTwUTF2kIk

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Shelter and Write Prompt 22: Responding to Inspiration

Find a poem that resonates with you in these times. You could check out these poems chosen by poets from Emory University, these collaborations sponsored by https://t.co/wI9jnFTwB4