A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts—exercises that 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 ideas and advice to motivate you to keep writing.
Brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
Listen to Episode 42
When novelist Tammy Oberhausen feels “stuck or uninspired,” she tends “to wallow around with it for a while and feel bad.” Writing prompts help her ideas flow again. “Don’t wallow too much,” she says. “Get the prompt and go with it.”
On this episode, Tammy shares how to use your dreams—which she says are like “personalized prompts”—in your writing. Listen below!
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About Tammy Oberhausen
Tammy Oberhausen is the author The Evolution of the Gospelettes, a novel published in 2024 by Fireside Industries.
She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Western Kentucky University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University.
While working as a book editor and teacher and raising two daughters, she kept coming back to a story about a family of gospel singers that wouldn’t let her go.
After three decades of developing her craft and writing and rewriting that story, the Gospelettes finally made their debut. A Kentucky native, she lives in Bowling Green with her husband.