Fiction writer Rion Amilcar Scott offers us a moment of peacefulness amidst the chaos with the power of metaphor, his music and television inspirations, a flash fiction prompt, and several deep breaths in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

E. Ethelbert Miller - writer, activist, and The Inner Loop Board Member - calms our worried spirits and helps us reconnect with nature through jazz-inspired haiku, a chance for literary meditation in these weeks of solitude. So grab your favorite pen, turn on some Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, and tune in to this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Invert your gaze to study the stars and explore how a classic antagonist can become your next protagonist with The Inner Loop Board Member Anthony Dobranski in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Generate chemistry and your next 100,000 word novel with The Inner Loop Board Member Leeya Mehta, who reminds us to celebrate each milestone of the long, lonesome journey of writing in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Get inside the head of a mosquito with The Inner Loop Board Member Teddy Rodger, who shows us the value of revisiting our favorite works in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Join The Inner Loop Board Member Dan Knowlton in our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Dan takes us to a babbling brook to create stillness. Then, he flexes his fiction muscles with dueling perspectives of the same damned tree!

Join The Inner Loop Board Member Dan Knowlton in our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Dan takes us to a babbling brook to create stillness. Then, he flexes his fiction muscles with dueling perspectives of the same damned tree!

The Inner Loop Outreach Intern Kiera Wolfe takes the helm for this week’s Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times. Kiera embraces quarantine life by leaning into the mundane, and she has her characters strip away the old to create something new.

The Inner Loop Radio Intern Abi Newhouse takes us to Utah to reimagine a family conflict in her autofiction prompt for the third installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Abi offers up more reading recommendations, and she encourages us to explore new territory, both physically and mentally.

Join Co-Host Courtney Sexton for the second installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Get writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt with each episode. Courtney has some inspiring book recommendations, and then she takes us to the lighthouse, and then back again, and then again.