Welcome to Bewilderness Writing!

Explore the craft and its therapeutic and creative benefits to help you recover your creative self. This is a fun space where you can find musings about creativity in all of its many disguises, whether a writer, dancer, or accountant. You may also see the many paths our Bewilderness Writing Prompts take us.

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Ellis Elliott 4/6/22 Ellis Elliott 4/6/22

Happy National Poetry Month! A Month of One-Line Prompts

We’re celebrating in Bewilderness Writing with a month of one-line prompts for any kind of writing you choose, wherever the line might take you.

Ellis Elliott 3/31/22 Ellis Elliott 3/31/22

Ellis Elliott: Ode to Weebles

Written by Ellis Elliott. Inspired by “Ode to Fat” by Ellen Bass and the Academy Awards Ceremony

Ellis Elliott 3/16/22 Ellis Elliott 3/16/22

Ellis Elliott: I Don't Know How to Write About War

Inspired by Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye, poem prompt from Bewilderness Writing.

Ellis Elliott 2/16/22 Ellis Elliott 2/16/22

Ellis Elliott: Fearless

She comes, alongside the others in my adult ballet class, to claim her place at the barre. Our “barre” is a padded folding chair on the linoleum floor of the church’s fellowship hall.