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PROMPTED is guided writing practice designed to help you return to the page with intention. Through thoughtful prompts that explore reflection, craft, curiosity, and everyday life, it supports new writers building confidence and experienced writers alike.

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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Still Here | Prompted No. 143 (opens the original)

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    Still HereAfter everything. You’re still here.After the hard season. After the thing that knocked you down. After the months of just getting through. After the silence, the absence, the not-showing-up-the-way-you-planned. After all of it.Prompted is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Starting Again (Again) | Prompted No. 142 (opens the original)

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    Starting Again (Again)This isn’t your first time starting over.You’ve done this before — returned to something you’d set down. Picked up a practice you’d abandoned. Dusted off a dream you thought you’d outgrown. Said okay, let’s try this again more times than you can count.Prompted is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="subscriptio

  3. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    The Permission You’ve Been Waiting For | Prompted No. 141 (opens the original)

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    The Permission You’ve Been Waiting ForThe last couple of months required me to step away from a lot of things. Life asked me to set it all down for a while. To tend to what needed tending. To stop obsessing over consistency and just... be where I was.Maybe you’ve been away too. From writing. From yourself. From something you used to do regularly that quietly slipped away when life got loud or heavy or just too full.Prompted is a reader-supported publication. To re

  4. Issue · Jul 27, 2026

    What You’re Done Apologizing For | Prompted No. 139 (opens the original)

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    What You’re Done Apologizing ForHow many times have you apologized for something that wasn’t wrong?For taking up space. For having needs. For speaking. For resting. For changing your mind. For not responding fast enough. For being too much. For not being enough. For existing in a way that inconvenienced someone else.Prompted is a reader-supported public…<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1" type="e

  5. Issue · Jul 25, 2026

    Where Do You Hold It? | Prompted No. 140 (opens the original)

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    Where Do You Hold It?The body keeps score. We know this. But do we know where?Stress doesn’t just live in the mind. It takes up residence in the jaw, the shoulders, the low back, the belly. Grief settles somewhere. Anxiety has a favorite spot. Even joy —when we let ourselves feel it — lands in a particular place.Prompted is a reader-supported publicatio…<input class="email-input" name="email" tabind

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