Writing Prompts | Call for Submissions

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If you are struggling for ideas, let me propose a few:

• Holidays: How the holidays will be different this year; how to cope with loss during the holiday season; Christmas traditions, old and new; handmade gifts; favorite memories of this time of the year.
• Looking forward to 2021: What we take and what we leave behind; New Year’s resolutions or lack thereof; hopes for the coming year; learning/trying new skills.
• Humor: Hilarious holiday “fails”; ways to keep peace at family gatherings (or not-gatherings, in the time of COVID19); tongue-in-cheek New Year’s resolutions; why you don’t make resolutions anymore; things you’ll really miss about 2020; predictions for 2021.
• Society: Constructive action we can all engage in to make a positive difference in 2021; ways the media (both social and mainstream) helps/hurts in building unity; creative ways to keep kids engaged and parents sane during a pandemic.
• Whatever piques your interest!

If you’re noticing a definite bias towards optimism, you’re not wrong. While I don’t think we can go through life wearing rose-colored glasses, I also see little value in being the harbinger of doom and gloom all the time — it’s so done, and done daily. Let’s at least try…