Accepting Submissions: {_____ FOR DUMMIES} 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.

You want to learn about some new topic, but you’re not sure where to start. It’s all too big, too vast, too overwhelming. You need to start from scratch, from the inception point.

But you’re a full-grown adult. You have a mortgage (maybe) or an investment account (maybe) or an advanced degree in thermodynamics (maybe). Or maybe you need help understanding the basics of a mortgage or investment account or thermodynamics.

“Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten,” you say. A n00b. A novice. A yearling. A moron. And from your ignorance comes wisdom and a new writing prompt.

This Week’s Writing Prompt: ______ FOR DUMMIES

This week, we’re looking for new original pieces, using ______ FOR DUMMIES 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 ______ FOR DUMMIES. 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 Sunday February 6th at midnight EDT.