Each month we’ll offer a low-stakes, writing prompt applicable to all genres. This month, enjoy “Summer Strikes”—a prompt meant to help us celebrate this wondrous season. Upon completing the prompt, send your piece (500 words or less please) to chippewavalleywritersguild@gmail.com for potential publication in next month’s newsletter!

Without further adieu, “Summer Strikes” ...

What are your most tangible memories of the first night of summer? How did you spend that first night as a child, a teenager, a young adult, an adult (we could go on…). Spend five minutes recording all your sensory details of that night, then another five minutes recounting an encounter that occurred. Revive, revise, revise, and once you’ve crafted something you’re proud of, send it our way!