Prompt of the day: List ten things you can do with tissue paper. Choose one and write about it.
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ABOUT US
Prompt is a literary magazine, nine students, first drafts, second drafts, workshops, hours spent in coffee shops, and above all, a passion for producing and disseminating student literature at Northwestern University.We host a community of NU writers at our bi-monthly workshops, for new and seasoned writers to openly discuss their work.
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"a new name for everything."
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Elsewhere
Prompt of the day: Complete the statement, “I’d a walk a mile for a…”, and continue to write about it.
Prompt of the day: Write a 250-word character sketch about a sore loser.
Workshop!
This quarter’s workshops are starting up again with fire! The first one will be this Tuesday at 8 pm in University Hall 218.
This quarter, every other week will be a peer editing workshop, and the alternating weeks will be themed discussions, such as line breaks in poetry. Come check it out! (Be sure to bring 3 to 4 copies of your work, no longer than 2 pages of poetry or 5 pages of prose.)
Here’s a recap of what we do at our workshops:
We split into groups of four or five people and go around the circle workshopping. The author reads their work aloud. Then the listeners tell them what works for them and what doesn’t work. The best way to give constructive criticism is to say what doesn’t work, why, and suggest how it can be fixed. It’s not about personal taste and whether you like the story or not; it’s about whether the story (or poem or essay) works. Workshopping can be stressful, but at Prompt we try to keep it very relaxed and friendly. Come expecting to walk away with suggestions on how to make your piece even better, and you will be satisfied!
Prompt of the day: Write using the following as the first line. “This morning marks the anniversary, the anniversary of two people dying.”
Prompt of the day: Write a recollection of a friendship you had once.
Prompt of the day: Write a short story using the title, “Comfort.”
Prompt of the day: Write a story that begins with a character peering out from behind a curtain.
Prompt of the day: Write a poem that starts at the end, moving backwards.
Prompt Workshop
t’s come around again - Prompt is hosting another workshop! This time it will be held in Kresge 2-430 at 7 pm on Wednesday, December 1. The point of the workshop is to give Northwestern students a place to have their writing critiqued outside of the classroom. The best way to learn how to write is to actually write and then have that writing reviewed by people who are writers just like you. And that’s what we do. We split into groups of four or five people and go around the circle workshopping. The author reads their work aloud. Then the listeners tell them what works for them and what doesn’t work. The best way to give constructive criticism is to say what doesn’t work, why, and suggest how it can be fixed. It’s not about personal taste and whether you like the story or not; it’s about whether the story (or poem or essay) works. Workshopping can be stressful, but at Prompt we try to keep it very relaxed and friendly. Come expecting to walk away with suggestions on how to make your piece even better, and you will be satisfied!
