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Welcome to The Write Spot - an online writing community offering inspiration and writing prompts to spark your writing. Click on Writers Forum for writing workshop dates (Zoom and in-person workshops), Jumpstart for writing workshops, Newsletter for writing news, and Blog for writing prompts and places to submit your writing.

Writing with Marlene is a little bit of sanctuary. —Angie


 

Are you a published author, new to writing, or unsure if you are a writer at all? 
The Write Spot books spark creativity with prompts to enhance writing, resource information about self-care when writing about difficult subjects, and more. And they are entertaining, too!

 


Writers Forum

Forum is on a break. We'll return.

Free Zoom event: A place to learn and chat about writing. Details on the Writers Forum page.

Great group of people, great readings, great discussions. — Patricia

Jumpstart Writing Workshops

On the Zoom platform. Contact Marlene for information about Jumpstart Writing Workshops.

I enjoyed everything: the prompts, the atmosphere and the variety of writing. — Sherry


The Write Spot Blog

Most Recent Posts

Quiet Writing

“Quiet writing isn’t a genre, it’s more like a style and an approach. For creative nonfiction, it’s narrative that focuses on everyday moments, employs keen observation, and includes details and imagery to demonstrate and investigate the human experience. It reads quiet but still carries the tension and conflict that is fundamental to good storytelling.” — Andrea A. Firth Excerpted from Quiet Writing: Start with an Everyday Moment, Brevity Blog Post, April 23, 2025 Andrea A. Firth is an editor at Brevity Blog.

The Write Spot Blog is a writing gold mine of information, help, and encouragement. — Kelly

Lighting the path for reflection
The Write Spot Blog