Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith encourage creatives to play this holiday season and jumpstart their creativity with prompts. In this episode of QWERTY Writing Life, they give five types of prompts for creatives and then share examples from their lives of how each can be used.

Check out the links referenced in the show:

Blog Battle: https://bbprompt.com/

Tales of the Faerie Shepherds (stories by Joy, many inspired by Blog Battle prompts): https://joyerancatore.com/my-writings/tales-of-the-faerie-shepherds/

Reedsy has a weekly writing prompt contest you can have fun with: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/contests/

FOR A BONUS PROMPT AND IMPROMPTU EXAMPLES OF HOW IT’S USED BY BOTH JOY AND MEA:

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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.

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