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Welcome the Year of the Snake with creative writing prompts! Explore creativity through these snake-inspired writing prompts!

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Unlock creativity with my free calendar of writing prompts! Use these starters to jumpstart your writing this year.

Kickstart your creativity with these 3 writing prompts to ignite ideas and help you start your year strong!

Today I'm sharing some visual inspiration from my time at the Good Heart Artist Residency with 22 photo prompts!

Here in Silicon Valley, the incredible heat wave of last week has passed and the cooler breezes of autumn are here. I'm enchanted. As I...

When I lived on the East Coast, I looked forward to the abundance of fall leaves each year. My girls and I would gather them, creating...

Summer is almost over, and every year it's a bittersweet feeling. The end of a season, shadows growing longer, gold-tinted dusks--even...

Summer is often painted with a brush of adventure. There's something about this season, probably stemming from the time off school as...

Best laid plans I had great plans for May. Having plans should have been my first clue that life would throw me a curve ball or four. And...

Poetry forms can feel intimidating. We remember counting syllables, looking at meter, and trying to figure out if we're looking at a...

I try to write a poem every day. Some days, the poem pours out of me, and I could write line after line without too much struggle. Other...

After months of bone-dry weather, it’s raining here in Northern California. This means that my normally dusty trails are mud covered—and...

I draw heavily from nature both when writing and creating visual art. Often the images that come to me when I create, while based on...

Writing every day requires coming up with ideas. Every day. Some days, the thoughts flow freely. Other days, it's like pulling teeth....

I love writing prompts. This isn't a surprise since I also love sharing prompts I come up with on my Facebook and Instagram accounts, and...

February is here. A short month with a lot on its shoulders. We have Valentine's Day, which, no matter your feelings on the holiday, can...

I’ve had a recurring nightmare since I was in kindergarten. The dream is inextricably linked to a trip my Brownie troop took. I don’t...

Throughout our lives, we experience Extraordinary things, events, people, and places. Just as I think of creative masterpieces and...

When we cover clichés in my English class, I explain they’re shortcuts used to convey an experience, feeling, or set of feelings to...