Join published writer Eric Bell for a few rounds of writing prompts designed to spark your creativity. We will write together (please mute and turn off your screens), followed by an optional opportunity to share our work. Feedback here is entirely positive, as the writing has not been edited. Prompts could range from the very open ("Write about winter using the five senses") to the specific ("write about a talking car that sings country music"), but you are always welcome to combine, modify, or ignore the prompts - this is your writing time, to be spent how you see fit.

Eric Bell is the author of ALAN COLE IS NOT A COWARD (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2017) and ALAN COLE DOESN’T DANCE (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2018), two middle grade novels about a gay seventh grade boy dealing with bullies, crushes, the power of art, and coming out. The first book was nominated to the Rainbow Book List for GLBTQ Books for Children and Teens. The books have also been translated into multiple languages. Eric is also featured in the queer middle grade short story anthology THIS IS OUR RAINBOW: 16 STORIES OF HER, HIM, THEM, AND US (Knopf). Eric is a teacher of writing classes, a virtual workshop leader, a freelance editor and writing coach, and an employee at a library. He lives and writes in Pennsylvania.