Writing Prompts to Welcome Winter
Posted on: December 23, 2012
Friday marked the Winter Solstice and we’ve now entered into the winter season. Winter is an ideal time for writers to take stock of the light and dark aspects of their writing. So much of writing (and creating more generally), is about cultivating the willingness to explore the unknown, uncharted and mysterious places of the imaginative psyche. Often it feels as if we are in the dark while creating. During winter, we can review our writing accomplishments of the year and plant dream seeds for the future. As we turn inward into the muck of our own fertile landscape, we mirror the outward cycle of the earth.
The prompts below can support your writing practice during winter:
The time I felt the most joy, in 2012, when writing was…
I am most of proud of my writing practice in 2012 because…
What continues to interest me about my writing is…
I took the most risk this year in writing about…
The fresh new writing that wants to be born in 2013 is…
Creating support for my writing life during the winter season looks like…
My strategies to reduce time and energy wasters that take me away from writing include…
The writing seeds that are growing in the deep dark are…
A self-limiting belief I have about my writing that I could release into the light is…
4 Responses to "Writing Prompts to Welcome Winter"
December 24, 2012 at 6:36 am
The time-wasters one, definitely! Thanks for the ideas, Michele 
December 27, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Great prompts, especially the one focusing on goals for next year. I’ve been thinking about this a lot……really hoping, fingers crossed, to have my first short story published next year!!! Happy Christmas xxx
December 23, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Great prompts. Thanks Michele.