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November 1 - November 15, 2025
“The 100-Day Project”—capitalizing
Starting tomorrow, do one creative act that you can repeat for 100 days.
there was a sweet spot between specificity and open-endedness.
“Make your resistance the thing. See how that works.”
The only way out is through.
Be Slow Rachel Schwartzmann
what’s seemed the most urgent is the question of our collective relationship with pace and its influence on how we live, work, and create in our digital age.
What do I want to make? Where do I want to go? Who do I want to be?
Where should I begin? This is your prompt: Set your timer for five minutes and do nothing.
write about the thoughts, the questions, and the answers that came up in that moment of slowness, of stillness.
Journey and Journal Pico Iyer
the process of sitting alone in a quiet space and hearing what lies on the far side of my thoughts is the closest I’ll ever get to meditation: It clears the beehive of my mind, it dispels the tangles that can never be truly answered, and it allows me to step back out into the clamor as refreshed and directed as if driving down from a monastery.
it hardly matters what happens to the writing. The joy and clarity come in the doing
The result, almost always, is pure wonder.
This is your prompt: What is the moment—the place, the person, the activity—that has moved you to forget the time, to lose yourself, and to return to what can feel like forgotten depths (or heights)?
I was afraid that if someone saw the truth, it might be all they could see.
there are people in our lives with whom it’s not safe for us to share our tenderest truths.
This is your prompt: How are you really?
Radical Receptivity Marie Howe
Dorothy Allison’s Two or Three Things I Know for Sure:
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that change when it comes cracks everything open.”
This is your prompt: Choose a line from a book—you can grab the nearest one and flip it open to a random page, or pick an old favorite you’ve memorized by heart.
I Begin Again Aura Brickler My new beginning has yet to happen.
I will begin again and learn how to forgive.
This is your prompt: Have you been bracing yourself for a new beginning?
“I will begin again as…”
journaling can also be an act of recovery.
writing those stories became “a form of journaling, an unanticipated therapy.”
Looking back is not always pleasant. In fact, it can be disorienting.
I am living. I remember you.
“To remember somebody means to put them back together and to hold them within ourselves.
people who you can’t live without die, and you keep living.
once they’re dead, they can be with us ...
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I’ve found that it’s not avoiding such memories, but consciously grappling with them that frees me from their grip. After putting them on the page, I’m no longer pinned by them, pinned to that moment, that feeling, that hurt.
a reminder to my future self: See what you’ve been through. Look at what you survived.
Didion: “Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.”
this mind map helped me recover long-forgotten details and took me to unexpected places.
can do this not only with periods of time, but also with people and places.
experience is strange and wonderful: spatial rather than linear.
associative, surprising, even exhilarating.
This is your prompt: Create a “mind map.” Choose a year, a place, a person, or a favorite word.
begin mapping out the web of associations and memories that appear in your mind. Follow it where it leads.
This is your prompt: What food evokes a transporting moment of time and place? Taste the moment and write down everything you can remember.
This is your prompt: Pick five items from the list below.
write one memory associated with each item—or write associations you have of this item—in two hundred words or less.
Like dreamscapes, rely on images to convey feeling.
Assemble these memory fragments into a ...
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Give it a one-wor...
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Thoreau’s Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,”
This is your prompt: Meditate on places. If you’re working on fiction, perhaps choose places from that fictional world.
