Pop Prompts uses popular music to awaken your creative spirit. Each writing prompt poses a question that will get you thinking more deeply about yourself and the world around you. Read the prompt, listen to the song, then let go...and let your subconscious take over.

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Pop Prompts: The ’90s takes you on a journey through a decade of music that will liberate the writer in you from whatever holds you back. Each ’90s song in this book is your cue to write with abandon. Work on your novel, script, memoir, poetry, daily journal—whatever. As long as you’re writing you’re doing it right.

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Every writing prompt in Pop Prompts For Swifties is paired with one of Taylor's songs from the first "era" of her storytelling journey, from her debut album (2006), to Fearless (2008), to Speak Now (2010), to Red (2012), and all the way through 1989 (2014). Find the song on Apple Music or Spotify (or wherever you get your music), let it wash over you, then do the accompanying prompt. Let Taylor's music be your muse, and see where your muse takes you!

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Pop Prompts Showtunes is organized by different types of musical theater song, from the “Opening Number” to “I Want” songs to the “11 O’Clock Number” all the way through the big Finale. For every showtune, there are four writing prompts: musical prompts, fiction prompts, journaling prompts, and stagecraft prompts. The book ends with a Master Class, where we’ll take a close look at the musical Fun Home.

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A paraplegic woman plays outrageous power games to get something she desperately wants in this dark, twisty, sexy play that takes office politics to new extremes.

WINNER, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award: Best Playwriting

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David needs to get laid, Gary could use a drink, and Tim would like you to take your top off. Carla craves cocaine, Jeannie’s got God, and Pamela keeps digging herself deeper into the funny and frightening world of hypochondria. But when one of their own gets sick for real, they’re all going to have to face their greatest fears and grow up.

NOMINEE, LA Weekly Award, Outstanding Playwriting

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It’s the early 2000s, before PrEP. Ted is new to Los Angeles, and newly out of the closet. He goes on a journey through Hollywood back rooms, nightclub bathrooms, and Internet chat rooms—where he meets and falls in love with Henry. But Henry doesn’t yet know how to navigate the dating landscape with his new HIV diagnosis, so he breaks things off with Ted...who then makes a desperate decision to win Henry back. He Asked For It asks how far are you willing to go for love? And how much will you forgive?

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Our lives can change in an instant. One moment you’re getting engaged, and a few surreal moments later you’re sitting with strangers in an ICU waiting room, praying your fiancé will survive a brain aneurysm. While waiting for Frank to wake from a coma, Ada meets Julia, Paul, and Josh, who are waiting for their mom to wake up. A tenuous friendship is born. I Wanna Hold Your Hand looks at life, death, and recovery, and what it means to try your hand at living again...

NOMINEE, Stage Raw Awards, Best Playwriting

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An encounter between a white, gay playwright and his black, straight "shirtless maid" goes disastrously wrong when signals are misinterpreted, lines crossed. Handjob explores the aftermath of their meeting, as it reveals deep layers of discrimination, discord, and discontent among people who should be allies. How can you know when you've gone too far if you completely ignore other people's boundaries?

NOMINEE, LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards: Best Playwriting

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Elliot is lost in a world of sex workers—late night house calls from hustlers and phone calls with call girls. Becky is torn between two worlds—her day job as a stripper and being a mom to fifteen-year-old Rose (a Goth girl who wants nothing to do with her). And then there's Little B, who has stripped away every piece of herself until all she has left is her obsession with Icelandic pop singer Bjork. This troubled family's shared past holds unspeakable horrors and they must join forces if they ever want to heal.

WINNER, Backstage West Garland Award, Best Playwriting

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A gay clown. Two lesbian strippers. A pregnant Goth teen. A deadbeat dad. A horny mother. And a girl who thinks she’s Bjork. In this stand-alone sequel to Yellow Flesh / Alabaster Rose, the Silverstein family journey towards healing is abruptly halted when Elliot becomes the victim of a brutal gay bashing.

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