Accepting Submissions: {IT’S BETTER OUTSIDE} Writing Prompt

Each week, we issue a writing prompt to our own staff, guest contributors, and readers like you. We welcome guest submissions, so if you’re interested in being featured or regularly contributing to the site, email your responses to kelaine.conochan [at] thepromptmag.com.

If there’s anything to be learned from a global pandemic, it’s that staying inside the comfort and captivity of our four walls is not a long-term lifestyle we want any part of. How often we forget that humans are actually just animals, and that animals belong outside.

We thrive in the daylight. We thrive exposed to the elements. We thrive when we stop dicking around on the internet and go the hell outside.

What more proof do you need than learning that Vitamin D, which makes your bones strong, is primarily formed by our skin absorbing ultraviolet light? What more proof do you need than how good you feel drinking coffee on your stoop or sitting on a park bench with a good book? While streaming a movie may sound more relaxing, we all know—deep down in our strengthening bones—that it’s better outside.

And with spring upon us, we’re finding inspiration in taking our talents to the fresh air.

This Week’s Writing Prompt: IT’S BETTER OUTSIDE

This week, we’re looking for new original pieces, using IT’S BETTER OUTSIDE as our prompt.

If you’ve got an inspired ideas about how to respond to this week’s prompt, send us your submission of 400-700 words. Write us anything that comes to mind when you think of  IT’S BETTER OUTSIDE. It can be a personal essay, a poem, short story, script, or anything else original and fresh. Ironic or sincere, real or imagined—just make it worth our while and we’ll publish it, include it in our newsletter, and give you the chance to join the creative, talented staff writers here at The Prompt.

Email your responses to kelaine.conochan@thepromptmag.com by Friday May rd at midnight EST.