Where Do I Start? Writing Prompts
I named this section Where Do I Start? because this is the question I ask myself before I begin any writing project.
Where Do I Start? is a section of Send My Love to Anyone that includes prompts and resources for any genre of creative writing by Kathryn Mockler and sometimes guest authors.
I named this section Where Do I Start? because this is the question I ask myself before I begin any writing project.
No matter how long I’ve been writing, at the outset of any creative undertaking, I always feel lost, confused, excited, and terrified—just like I did when I first began writing in my early 20s. And I always have a moment of wonder in the process when I ask—where do I even start?
Over the years, I’ve learned this is part of my writing process. Writing for me is about feeling lost and then finding my way through an idea.
I hope these writing prompts and resources help you along your writing journey.
About Kathryn Mockler
Kathryn Mockler has taught creative writing for 23 years and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria where she teaches short fiction and screenwriting.
She is the author five books of poetry, several short films, and the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023), which won the 2024 Victoria Butler Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award, 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, 2024 Fred Kerner Award, and 2024 VMI Besty Warland Between Genres Award.
She is a graduate of UBC’s MFA program, an alum of the CFC Screenwriter’s Lab, and a TIFF Talent Lab participant. She won the San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Fellowship and was a Nicholl semifinalist and a Zoetrope and BlueCat Quarterfinalist and more. Her films and experimental videos have screened at such festivals as TIFF, EMFA, Palm Springs Film Festival and most recently at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and REELPoetry/HoustonTX.
She published The Rusty Toque from 2011-2017, was the Joyland Canada Editor from 2013-2020, and published Watch Your Head from 2019-2023.
She co-edited the print anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020) and she runs Send My Love to Anyone, a literary newsletter which was a featured Substack in 2023.
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