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Make August the Month You Write Every Day

...with our brand new class, "31 Days, 31 Essay Prompts: A Month of Writing about Family and Relationships."

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Brendan Spiegel
Jul 23, 2026
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Whether you’re headed to the beach next month or sweating it out in the office, the dog days of August are the perfect time to usher in a reset and commit to a new goal with your writing. That’s why we’re excited to offer a brand-new prompts class!

Our popular month-long prompts courses are designed to help you break through writer’s block and generate lots of ideas for your memoir writing. Developed by Narratively Chief Submissions Reader Amy Barnes, these self-guided classes help you figure out what you really want to write and how to get it started. Next month, we’re focused on family.

Everyone has family issues to write about…and we all put it off, because it’s too hard too complicated, or we just don’t know how to write about the people closest to us. This new course is designed to help you find inspiration, focus your memories, and introduce ways to write about the people and relationships in (and out) of your life. The prompts will help you find your own unique storytelling appro…

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