A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts. These exercises can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing.
Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, you’ll find motivation to keep writing.
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Listen to Episode 43
Poet Lynnell Edwards enjoys using what she calls “external prompts” from other authors. But she believes that “ultimately as writers, we’ve got to have sort of internal prompts.”
On this episode, Lynnell shares questions that will help you create your own personalized writing prompts. Learn how to generate a series of poems, essays, or linked short stories based on what you’ve already written. Listen below!
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About Lynnell Edwards
Lynnell Edwards is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, The Bearable Slant of Light, which documents the onset of bipolar disorder in her son, the impacts on the family, as well as constructions of mental illness as depicted in literature and history.
She is Associate Programs Director for the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University where she mentors and lectures in Poetry. She is also Book Reviews Editor for Good River Review, Spalding’s literary journal.
Find her at lynnelledwards.com for more about her work, including essays, poems online, interviews, and upcoming events.