1919

1919 was the “year of the crack up,” according to The New York Times: Women’s suffrage, race riots, labor unrest, prohibition, the end of WWI, and more. This set of 40 unexpected writing prompts include objects, characters, events and more that can be taken in any direction for your writing. Feeling the era? Write on a vintage portable typewriter, which was all the rage in 1919. (This isn’t a history lesson, per se. These prompts were inspired by a remarkable exhibition marking the centennial of the Huntington Library in 2019.)