Home Sweet Home Writing Prompt September 2020

What does family mean to you?

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This month’s prompt challenges you to think about what family means to you. Are you from a very conventional family and has this influenced what you think makes a family? Or are your circumstances less conventional? Do you have a positive or negative view of family? How have your experiences shaped this view?

There is no right or wrong answer to this prompt. As long as it’s your truth, that’s what matters. Home Sweet Home is always a safe place to share your perspectives on family and parenting.

Rules:

• Your piece needs to be a minimum of 800 words.
• Poetry is not accepted.
• It must be written for the reader. Pieces written in the style of a diary entry generally do not give anything to the reader. Think about what message you want to get across. How do you want the reader to feel after they have finished your piece? Is there anything you want them to learn or look at differently?
• Tag your work with “prompt”
• Your work has to be related to family and/or parenting. Please tag your work with one or both of these.
• If you would like to enter this challenge but are not a writer for Home Sweet Home, please email an…