Wholesale Quiet Writing: A Mindful Approach to the Writing Life

Write quietly and slowly about the things you feel deeply. The prompts on the Quiet Writing Map will inspire you to bring greater awareness and daring to your writing life. Through writing about ourselves we increase our awareness of how our minds work, and so enhance our ability to create resonant fictional characters. Many of these writing exercises suggest ways to use your personal stories to create vibrant and liberating fiction. Explore the sound of your writing, write sweaty, and describe the changes seen from a window. These creative writing prompts will inspire you to bring focus to your writing, find ways to write about anxiety and pain in fiction and memoir, and play with jibberish and gobbledygook to stop making sense!