Let's think about your writing practice for today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: I like to talk about a "writer's toolbox" - the skills and knowledge you have accumulated. What's in your writer's toolbox?

Loved popping into @brownbaglit.bsky.social to talk multi-POV novels!! @regalhouse.bsky.social

Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers event happening now; thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for visiting! Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break Miriam: miriamgershow.com

Today our Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break writing accountability group will participate in a small group talk about writing from various points of view with @miriamgershow.bsky.social (Closer.) Become a Lunch Break Writer to attend and receive more member benefits: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

I was interviewed by Chloe Yelena Miller. Check it out!

New from Brown Bag Lit's Milk Journal: Multi-genre author @demisty.bsky.social chats with co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social about writing her short story collection All Daughters are Awesome Everywhere from @univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!) www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

Thank you to @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social for joining us today to discuss collaboration and their new poetry book, Q&A For The End of The World! If you missed it, and we hope you didn't!, you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOH...

Today at noon, EST! Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events Q&A for the End of the World 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social will share behind-the-scenes insights from co-writing their new poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World.

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit. The days are getting shorter. The constant news is dark. What brings you (or your character) light? Joy? It can be the smallest bite to the deepest laugh.

Join us on Monday! www.brownbaglit.com/events

Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt: Read through your draft and find the heart of the piece. What are you writing about *really*? Underline this moment in the manuscript and then free-write on/about that moment and the reverberations that follow or precede it.

Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social. Check out her new work here -

Attention poets looking for an online class! Co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social is offering a small group, MFA style poetry writing workshop.

Monday, 9/15, 12 - 1 EST: A discussion between two poets about creative collaboration. @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social co-wrote the poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech Editions). Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Look at color. What can color do (in writing or on the canvas)? Write what you see and what meaning you might find in the color(s).

Thanks to Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break member Eileen Minnefor for the shout-out to our event last year with @joshundasanders.bsky.social (WOMEN OF THE POST)! Read Eileen Minnefor's post Stolen from the Mail www.eileenminnefor.com/my-blog

#MovieKid writes today's #RandomWritingPrompt for Brown Bag Lit: Write from the seal lion's point of view. What are they discussing?

Looking for a poetry workshop this fall? Check out co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social's newest offering. There's only one seat still open; apply today! www.brownbaglit.com/classes

Ready to turn your writing dreams into reality? Join our Lunch Break Writers accountability group! ​✍️ ​After a short summer break, Lunch Break Writers is back!

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: What do things look like right before the bloom? www.brownbaglit.com

We are excited to announce Brown Bag Lit's first event of the Fall 2025 season! We'll be hosting poets @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social and @mgushuedc.bsky.social‬ to discuss collaboration and their new book Q&A For the End of the World. Register for your free ticket here: www.brownbaglit.com/events

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Name colors in a piece of writing. Be as specific as possible. Does the color change in the light? Season? How the character feels? Does the color reflect the plot or tone? Or does it stand out to provide contrast?

I'm offering an MFA style poetry writing workshop through @brownbaglit.bsky.social (monthly class and individual meetings) Sept. - Dec. The class is limited to four students and two seats remain. Interested in joining us? Apply today! www.brownbaglit.com/classes

New, MFA style poetry workshop with Chloe Yelena Miller available for this fall! Apply today to join this small group of poets! www.brownbaglit.com/classes

I'm offering a new poetry workshop this fall. @brownbaglit.bsky.social email subscribers just received the details on the four (!) seats available for this intensive workshop. Let me know if you'd like to join our email list and learn more. Can't wait! Rolling admissions. www.brownbaglit.com

#RandomWritingPrompt An organizational prompt: Where are you going with your writing? Are you writing towards one complete story, essay or poem? A collection? Novel? Memoir? Where are the gaps? Think about this and write a list of sections/pieces to write to help focus your work.

Are you on our Brown Bag Lit mailing list? If not, DM me your email address and I'll add you. We just sent out some August news, including our Lunch Break members' only exclusive events coming up this fall! Join us? email: mailchi.mp/5c29ec34b15c... www.brownbaglit.com

#5amWritersClub #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Choose a color and think about it (or look at it) in different lights. You might hold something up to the sun, a light or a flashlight. How does the color change? Does the color (or object) become more solid? More fragile?

Thanks to Naomi Thiers for reviewing @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social’s poetry collection Corona/Crown (Wordtech) for Brown Bag Lit’s #MilkJournal! www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal/...

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: If your character could commission a portrait, what would it look like? (Photo from the Lego store in Florence, Italy.)

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: We can anticipate sound in a silent image or scene. Add auditory action to a scene with the suggestion of sound.

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: What does summer taste like? Can you describe a cool snack, meal or drink with your five senses? For extra credit, place a character somewhere eating/drinking it.

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit Write the space between plants, objects, animals or people. What is that space like? Does it pull the objects together? Push them apart? Feel sticky? Empty? Full?

Our co-founder, @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social, shared some publishing news today!

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: It is so hot in so many places. Can you describe the relief of entering shade/cool air/shower/etc. after being in the bright, hot sun?

#5amWritersClub #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Remember your five senses and don't leave out smell. What do you/characters smell (or smell like? :-) in the piece you are writing? Smell fills the air and can change the environment.

#5amWritersClub #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: What could go right or wrong on Lawyers Road?

Bonus #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit this week: Choose two (three?) things that don't usually co-exist and see what happens when they find themselves together in one scene! (like these dinos, people and duckies from my morning walk.)

Congratulations, @miriamgershow.bsky.social! We look forward to hosting you in the fall!

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: What is it that you are reaching for in your writing? Are you working on your voice, form, character development, etc.? Take inspiration from this spring bunny to stand up and nudge your writing in the direction you are trying to go, even if it is hard.

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: As yourself (or your character) a "magical" question. There are some great examples here, for example, "What's a path you almost took but didn't?" www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n...

Register to hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read poetry online in July -

#5amwritersclub #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit Make a list of questions without answers (as Sarah Manguso does in her beautiful new book! Yours don't have to be from children, but they can be.)

Thank you to Ellene Glenn Moore and Miranda Schmidt for joining Brown Bag Lit today to discuss hybrid writing! If you missed you, you can catch up with the recording here: www.youtube.com/@brownbaglit...

Our Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers shared some work today after our writing accountability time. Wow - what creativity and commitment! Looking for community? Join us www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

Loved having this convo with @nicoleharoutunian.bsky.social for Brown Bag Lit/Milk Journal!

Jocelyn Jane Cox interviews Nicole Haroutunian for @brownbaglit.bsky.social #MilkJournal

Hope you can join us!

New today in #MilkJournal: @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social interviews @nicoleharoutunian.bsky.social about structure in her novel-in-stories Choose This Now (@noemipress.bsky.social) www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal