Are writing prompts really useful or just pleasant procrastination tools? My short story "Get Away," freshly published in DarkWinter Literary Magazine, opens with a first-line prompt from my "Tarot Prompts for Writers." I would never have come up with the story without the prompted first line, "The road lay behind him in the darkness...." So,… Continue reading Writing with Prompts (New short fiction: “Get Away”)
Catherine Austen 