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Announcing…

Nancy and I will be once again traveling to the land of Pura Vida in 2022!

Creative Breakthrough: Restore, Renew, and Recommit to Your Art in Costa Rica

February 4th – 10th, 2022

Registrations & Details Coming Soon! Sign up HERE to get early notification and access!

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Time to reconnect…

Hi friends! It’s been awhile! Are you feeling ready to reconnect and recommit to your writing? To commune with your fellow artists again? Maybe you need a change of scenery, a new perspective. We’ve found just the place for you!

Nancy and I will soon be announcing our exciting new adventure for February, 2022. These retreats sell out quickly! Sign up HERE if you’d like early access / info / registration !

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Fire and Ice: Flash Fiction Retreat in Magical Iceland November 3-7, 2021!

Registration and details coming in April!

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We can’t wait to travel with you again!

Nancy Stohlman, Uncategorized, Writing Prompts & Craft Articles

Day 29: Bonus Unexpected Sabbatical–A Deserted Place

I’ve been thinking a lot about deserted places, the way this worldwide situation is changing our public spaces. I was really moved by these photos of iconic places: The Eiffel Tower, The Taj Mahal, The French Quarter, The Pyramids of Giza, Times Square, The Washington Mall, The Great Wall of China…empty.

And on the other hand, the empty lake that I usually walk or bike around is now crowded–so many bikes there yesterday I felt like I was on the Tour de France.

As we continue to navigate places and and redefine our spaces, I want to invite you for your second to last prompt to consider the latent tension inside solitude.

Tell a story inside an empty landscape. Consider the latent tension of the rustling cornfield, the quiet junk yard, the silent train station.

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Much love and solidarity

xoxo Nancy

Nancy Stohlman, Uncategorized, Writing Prompts & Craft Articles

Day 27: Bonus Unexpected Sabbatical April 11–Bibliomancy

It’s a great word, isn’t it? Bibliomancy

It means to “consult” seemingly random passages from books as messages or guides–or in this case starting points or prompts.

(Officially it means: “foretelling the future by interpreting a randomly chosen passage from a book, especially the Bible.” From Wikipedia: “Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination.”)

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Your prompt:

Open the closest book and put your finger down on the page. Where it “lands” is your story starter: Use that sentence as a first line (or maybe the title)…

(Here is my result, from On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous: “What’s left of November seeps through their jeans, their thin knit sweaters.”)

Happy Writing!

xoxo