Sitemap - 2020 - Writing for Weird Times by Amy Guth

Close this year in words

Prompt: boundaries

Prompt: you're gonna make it

Prompt: hate that

Prompt: advice

News hook: the pandemic

Prompt: Xmas

Prompt: just a slice

Prompt: nostalgic songs

Share the accomplishments of others

Publish your perspective

Prompt: revisionist history, part 2

Prompt: revisionist history, part 1

A word about gatekeepers

Prompt: your great address

Prompt: travelogue + news

On writing collaboratively

Prompt: quarantine items

Prompt: electoral college

Connect what you know to what's going on

The daily brain feed

Prompt: time travel

Prompt: your secret to survival

Travel

Tiny task for public impact, part 2

Public impact statements

Impact strategy

Prompt: fear

Prompt: challenges

Prompt: technology

Prompt: lies!

Prompt: books judged by covers

It's time to write *that* one

Thanksgiving prompt

How to do.. a thing never done before

Tiny task for public impact

Changing your mind

Prompt: citizenship

Math, how I love thee

Entering la-la land

You must read this

Prompt: ancestors

Prompt: childhood objects

Prompt: all in the family (or not)

Prompt: food

Prompt: help

Prompt: the book that built change

Unpopular opinions

Things to believe

Solve with ten ridiculous solutions

Prompt: what now?

Prompt: Dear President

Prompt: rock/hard place

Right v. easy

Looking ahead

Election Day

Voting in conflict

NaNoWriMo

Prompt: Halloween

Prompt: moon

Language challenge: media

What's easy for everyone else

Prompt: COVID, part 2

Prompt: COVID, part 1

Know your bad broadcast habits

Bueller?

Prompt: the envelope please

Prompt: natural disasters and other uplifting things

Prompt: time is weird now

Prompt: your DNA

Prompt: a secret

Prompt: trust/no trust

Prompt: yep/nope

Prompt: holy whoa

Credentials v confidence

Write to everyone

Focus

Fundamental shifts

Prompt: unofficial mentor

Prompt: missed connection

Body rebellion

Familiar/unfamiliar

One place, two events

Write from not knowing

Then and now

Prompt: before/after

Prompt: reinvention

Prompt: the self, the selves (part 1)

Prompt: kitchen wisdom

Prompt: agriculture

Prompt: Ugh, you

Prompt: capture this

Trippy time-travel thing

Prompt: zero

Explain how you do that

Prompt: when you can't even

Prompt: hobby

Prompt: thing on your to do list

Prompt: scared or totally not scared

Try it again

Prompt: get physical

Prompt: the album

Perspective/expansion

A biggie

Prompt: sames

Prompt: the open letter

Prompt: do a line (of poetry)

Prompt: that's a terrible idea

Try to be terrible-r please

More advice from Ray Bradbury

Prompt: simplify

Prompt: you

Prompt: new money

Counterarguments, part 1

Prompt: the tiniest object

Prompt: silence

Prompt: that which is weighing on you

Take care

Telling your own story

Prompt: awkwarrrrrd

You bio sucks, part zillion

Prompt: adventure

On coauthoring

Prompt: you're the worst

Map it big

A meditation on creating

Prompt: the lesson

Make arguments build on one another

Show don't tell

Shelf life of references

Working backwards to the apex

Think on paper

George Orwell's six rules for writing

Prompt: the film

Throat-clearing language

Say no to jargon

On being defensive when edited

Prompt: that big issue

Prompt: the paradox

How to figure out what to write about, pt. 2

How to figure out what to write about, pt. 1

Writing music

Does you bio suck?

Tight space

Prompt: the manifesto

Read your work out loud

Feedback, part zillion

Tracking

Adjective overwhelm

What has your attention?

Kill your darlings

Prompt: what that song means

Another word about gatekeepers

A word about gatekeepers

Connect their headline + your experience

Advice from Ray Bradbury

Challenge a narrative

Prompt: a list of favorites

Prompt: don't move

Prompt: a moment of destiny

Micro/macro

Tools for keeping momentum

The legacy of you

Dialogue

Who writes history?

Read what you write

Writing in the second person

Attack of the dreaded buzzwords

Pre-crastination

Prompt: food

Get on with it, part 2

Prompt: awkwarrrrrd

Get on with it

Opposite Day inspiration

Clarity of message

What to write about

You're better than that punctuation

Focus on the one message

The "write about what hurts" thing

Rejection sucks

Mini prompt: one moment

Pulling a fast one on your brain part 2

Pulling a fast one on your brain

Prompt: chosen fam

Prompt: the fam

Nobody owes you anything

"Wanting" to be a writer means squat

writing prompts for weird times