Writing Lab + Prompts

Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Aug 1 •

Jeannine Ouellette

I grew up in silence. This is what writing gave me.

The fence was too high, but ladders can be built from words

Jul 30 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Dear Future Self, I'm Still Afraid

Three exercises for writing against the grain and straight into the heart of fear

Jul 23 •

Jeannine Ouellette

The Thing That Would Postpone Our Deaths

The Power of Place | Week Five | A study in foreshadowing through doubled place-detail: revelation and concealment

Jul 9 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Three Songs At The End of Somewhere

The Power of Place | Week Four| What Magic When Place Conveys Emotion

Jul 2 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Writing Place as a Map of the Heart

The Power of Place | Week Three | Sometimes, landmarks are more than the sum of their parts

Jun 25 •

Jeannine Ouellette

The 5-Step WITD Method That Helped Get This Writer Into The NYT. She Calls It "A Total Game Changer"

Creative work is sacred, vulnerable, and alive. It does not grow in the harsh soil of other people’s unprepared opinions. There is a better way, and you…

Jun 20 •

Jeannine Ouellette

All the Shit You Don't Want

“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.” ~Ovid

May 21 •

Jeannine Ouellette

I Like Doing Things That Scare Me

"The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits" ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

May 14 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Break the Mirror

To reflect or not to reflect, that is the question ... with straight-talk advice from Kiese Laymon

May 2 •

Jeannine Ouellette

From Chickweed & Ash

A birthday poem, a writing exercise, and an invitation

Apr 9 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Happy is Boring

(But Also Necessary & Wonderful)

Apr 7 •

Jeannine Ouellette

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