#AbouttheAuthorAugust Returns!

Announcing this year's #AbouttheAuthorAugust prompts! 🖊️

This is the eighth year for #AbouttheAuthorAugust, and I am super excited and looking forward to your posts! This year, we're starting on August 3rd!

If you're new to #AbouttheAuthorAugust, here are the basics:

• This is a fun, casual way to interact with other writers! It’s primarily designed for IG, but you can follow along with the prompts anywhere. Just share where you'll be posting so others can check out your posts! (My IG: @jamesonthewriter)

• The prompts are assigned weekly rather than daily, so you can mix and match them however you wish for your posts! If there's a prompt you don't want to use, you can skip it, or if you want to combine prompts, you can do that too.

#ABOUTTHEAUTHORAUGUST 2026 PROMPTS

WEEK ONE:

- Introduce yourself + WIP
- August goals
- Genres you write + a genre you want to write
- What's your writing routine?
- What's your writing fuel? (Drinks, snacks, playlist recs...)

WEEK TWO:

- A book/story from your childhood that influenced your writing? (prompt by @ordinaryauthorkate)
- What inspired your current project?
- How do you choose a WIP?
- A lesson you've learned from writing
- What is a dream you have for your writing? Have you had any writing dreams already come true?