PROMPTS
A monthly analog newsletter with writing prompts and reflections to help you slow down, pay attention, and make more - on paper, not screens.
For artists, writers, and anyone who craves an analog rhythm, something to hold and maybe share with a friend.
monthly sign ups opening december 2025
PROMPTS is for anyone who wants to write more, notice more, and feel more alive in their practice. It’s for writers, artists, and weirdos who crave an analog rhythm—something to hold, not click. Do the prompts alone, or gather a friend: each month is a new doorway in.
The hum of constant connection. The tabs that multiply, the scroll that dulls. You spend your days making, teaching, tending — but your own creative rhythm feels faint. The drafts pile up. The notebooks stay closed. You crave something slower, something real. You want to touch what you make, to feel time move again in your hands.
This is PROMPTS — a small, steady correspondence between your attention and the world.
Each month has a theme that will be explored
Think of this as your portable studio companion
January : Beginnings
February : Holding
March : Attention
April : Memory
May : Thresholds
June : Body
July : Listening
August : Edges
September : Structure
October : Shadows
November : Devotion
December : Rest
Prompts arrives in the first week of each month
Inside each envelope you’ll find a short letter and a set of writing prompts — both contemplative and creative — alongside a small note or quote that ties the month’s theme together.
- Writers who need a nudge. You want to write, but you get stuck at the blank page. A monthly packet in the mail gives you structure without pressure.
- Artists and thinkers across mediums. PROMPTS isn’t just for “writers.” It’s for anyone who works with language, image, or idea. The prompts are doorways you can walk through in your own way.
- People craving analog rhythm. If you’re tired of screens, newsletters, and constant notifications, PROMPTS is your slow alternative. Ink on paper. A letter you can tuck in a notebook. Something to hold.
- Queer, weirdo, tender-hearted folks. The themes are expansive—about intimacy, memory, attention, devotion. If you’re looking for a practice that sees you as you are, this is a space for you.
- Those who want to practice with others. Each set of prompts is designed to be done alone or with a partner, a friend, a class, a writing group. PROMPTS can be a solitary ritual—or a communal one.
“Cody’s writing prompts always have such an amazing feel to them. Always poetic, never overly prescriptive. I love sitting down with Cody’s prompts after a class and having time in solitude to explore my inner landscape.” - Stacy, student from The Tapestry and The Web online course
- In a world where almost everything arrives by notification, I wanted to make something that arrives by hand. Something you can hold. When I write or read on paper, my body slows down. My attention shifts from the abstract to the immediate.
Writing by hand has always been part of my creative practice. It’s how I listen, how I make sense, how I begin again. The page keeps me honest. The mailbox reminds me that connection can move slowly and still arrive right on time.
- PROMPTS is built on this belief — that what we touch, we remember. That the act of writing by hand, and the ritual of receiving mail, can re-train our attention toward care, creativity, and the living world.
PROMPTS is analog-only. There’s no PDF or digital backup — intentionally. The rhythm depends on touch, slowness, and the privacy of paper.
Your first issue will arrive with a small welcome insert introducing the project, how to use the prompts, and a few ideas for building your own analog ritual. If you subscribe for the year before January 1, you’ll also receive a handwritten welcome letter to mark the beginning of your practice.
This also isn’t about getting better or worse at something. It’s about being off our screens and in our work with consistency and ease.
You do not need to have a business, an art practice, or even any idea what you want to write and talk about in order to sign up for Prompts. And you DEFINITELY do not need to identify as a writer or artist or have a desire to write or put art into the world. This will support you in having more clarity in how you talk about and share your work and bring it into the world on a timeline that works for you!
Q: Do I have to be a writer to subscribe?
A: Not at all. PROMPTS is for anyone who wants to notice more, make more, or simply have a creative rhythm in their life. The prompts are open enough to work for poets, journal-keepers, artists, or anyone who doesn’t yet call themselves “a writer.”
Q: How much time do the prompts take?
A: As much or as little as you want. Some people spend 5 minutes, others an hour. The prompts don’t expire—you can return to them anytime.
Q: Can I use PROMPTS in a group or classroom?
A: Yes. PROMPTS is designed to be done alone or with others. Many people use them in writing groups, classrooms, or even as conversation starters at the table.
Q: Why is this analog instead of digital?
A: Because we don’t need more email. PROMPTS is meant to be held, folded, tucked into your notebook. Something slow, something real.
Q: When does PROMPTS arrive each month?
A: Mail is unpredictable - but PROMPTS will be sent at the end of each month - so you’ll receive January’s edition within the first week of January.
Q: Where is PROMPTS printed and sent from?
A: My home studio in Cedar, MI
Email info@codycookparrott.com for any additional questions
WHO WRITES PROMPTS?
I write each issue myself from my home on the Leelanau Peninsula, where I live and work as a writer, artist, and movement practitioner. My practice is rooted in noticing — the daily devotions that make a life. PROMPTS grew from that same impulse: to offer something real, paced by the seasons and made by hand.
My work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Dance Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. I have a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and am an MFA candidate at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University
I am also a tornado person.
YEARLY SIGN UPS ARE OPEN
Prompts is $11/month or $111 for one year
Sign up for a yearly subscription before January 1 and receive a welcome letter
Prompts is $11/month or $111 for one year
Sign up for a yearly subscription before January 1 and receive a welcome letter
monthly sign ups opening december 2025