A Newsletter From Know Yourself #15
Prompting You To Write
Welcome to the latest newsletter from Know Yourself. Know Yourself is a publication full of writing prompts, brought to you by Assemblage, that serves as a guide to helping you understand yourself better. It’s here for all writers, all the time.
We now have 80 prompts (10 new ones added today) to choose from when you need a little help getting through a bout of writer’s block or if you just want to write and want someone to tell you what to write about. It’s not difficult. Write a story. Write a poem. Write a response. Write a letter. But write something.
These newsletters usually go out once a month (and sometimes every other month) and highlight all of the responses we’ve had in that timeframe. It also previews the new writing prompt for the next month, but feel free to use any prompt, any time.
Collection
Collections are groupings of writing prompt responses to the same prompt. You can find Collections on the home page underneath the Featured Stories and Monthly Writing Prompt blocks. This week we released our second collection, Living With Me.
Living With Me features 4 essays from 4 different writers that answer the prompt, #30. List five ways in which you are, after all, quite difficult to live with? This section is a great way to get acquainted with multiple works around one theme, as well as to find writers you haven’t read before or ones you shouldn’t miss. Take a look at our Collection this week and see what you’ve missed.
Living With Me features responses from Cara Harbstreet (She/Her), Jonathan Greene, Estrella Ramirez, and Samantha Lazar.
Responses to Our Writing Prompts Since the Last Newsletter
When I Grow Up by Estrella Ramirez (a response to #8. If all jobs paid the same, what would you choose to do?)
“Throughout high school, I was told once, then twice, and on repeat, until I changed my mind, that being a writer wasn’t a game plan. My guidance counselor made it clear; writing was a hobby. Journaling was good self-care. Poetry was an excellent form of self-expression.”
Putting the Hot in ‘Hot Mess’” by Samantha Lazar (a response to #30. List five ways in which you are, after all, quite difficult to live with?)
“I am kind of a mess. I’ve had a lot of projects going on at once almost my whole life. I have planners and lists and books and art supplies and papers to grade all over the place and a basket of laundry to be put away at all times.”
Three Pieces of Art That Shaped Me by Em Unravelling (a response to #4. Name three works of art (music, literature and visual art/architecture) that mean a lot to you.)
“It was December, it was raining, and my baby was in someone else’s arms, but that song — despite its dark, soul-sucking narrative about recovering from drug addiction — lifted my spirits, somehow. Because I did not need the sunshine. Other people had dark feelings too, and it was OK. The rain was here again, but I was alive, and I would have a life after all. The song answered a question I did not know I had been asking.”
Here Are 3 Things That Have Made Me Envious Recently and Why by Lark Morrigan (a response to #3. What sort of things have made you envious recently?)
“Envy to me is not toxic unless it’s so uncontrollable that it interferes with your relationships and the way you treat people. However, envy can also serve a purpose and give you much-needed clarity by revealing what you value and desire yet are preventing yourself from attaining.”
Our Monthly Writing Prompt
#78. Where are you still carrying old pain? How can you let it go?
All you have to do is write an answer. Anything. No more, no less. Get to know yourself and allow us to get to know you in the process. Let it out of you and leave it on the page.
We just added 10 new writing prompts for you.
