What’s the deal here?

Welcome. This whole Substack is centered around daily writing prompts of the non-fiction “there is urgency to adding your voice to public narrative” variety. You’ll also find a lot about the act of writing, how to get better at it, and how to get out of your own way when it comes to writing, pitching, and participating in the public conversation in a way that is thoughtful, useful, and impactful. You’ll also get helpful ideas about how to raise your own public impact and knit together you own body of writerly work in thoughtful ways, too.

I’m a writer/screenwriter, filmmaker and journalist and regular speaker and all my work centers around challenging narratives and helping folks make the public impact they want to make. Read more at amyguth.com/about.

I started this in June of 2020, so given that these posts are daily, there is quite a bit here, plus several posts like this one, that’ll also help ensure you never, ever run out of things to write about.

Free subscribers get a daily writing prompt and/or writing tip. Paid subscribers get full access to the daily prompts and tips, the full archive, and a regular churn of subscriber-only long-form content.

Other stuff you might like:

  • Feel like editors are gatekeepers who delight in rejecting you? Nope! A great pitch helps editors and gatekeepers of all kinds solve a problem and do their work better and faster. Get my free pitching guide and learn the formula that sets you up to be way more likely to get replies from gatekeepers of all kinds, and that helps you turn a “no” into a connection. (Get it here)

  • If greater visibility as a podcast/broadcast guest is part of your plan, you can’t just wing it. I compiled my more then fifteen years of combined live broadcast and podcast experience into a single guide to help you shine on podcasts and tv/radio spots, and how to set yourself up to get invited back again and again. (Get it here)

  • Hit my speaker page to find out about arranging a custom keynote or workshop for your group around writing, journalism, adapting written work for screen, media literacy, and more.

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Broadcaster - journo - essayist - editor - filmmaker - author. I make things with words and pixels, more or less.