I love writing prompts. I love reading them, I love scouring the depths of the internet for them, I love compiling lists of them, and I love making them up. I truly believe that I find creative writing prompts to be extremely helpful and inspiring. Beliefs and facts don’t always overlap in the Venn Diagram of Reality, however. The fact is, I will spend hours upon hours of my dedicated “writing time” trying to determine what prompt I want to try out. I’ll read through every s

Seeing my writing published for the first time this week was a flash of brightness on the darkest day of the year. There’s something unexpectedly lovely about this piece being printed on Winter Solstice— though unintentional, there are definite parallels between the metamorphic burst in the story and the passage through dark to light we’re experiencing now. Thank you to The Writing Disorder for providing a space for my story. Thank you to Esperanza Manzanera , whose photogra