Tag: creative non-fiction
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Daily Prompt #30
Wacky Wednesday! Time to write something weird, something surreal, something monstrous, something silly. Today’s wackiness is going to draw from your own life. Our prompt will be another from the wonderful Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola. “Memory, in a sense, is imagination: an ‘imagining’ of the past, re-creating the sights, sounds,…
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Daily Prompt #29
Tuesday Chooseday! My favorite weekly prompt! Remember, you choose the genre you wish to use to respond. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Get creative! Write me a recipe, or a letter. How about a scene from a one-act play? Talking Books For today’s prompt, turn to page 34 of the nearest book. Look for the first paragraph…
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Daily Prompt #25
Flash Friday! Today’s prompt is inspired by Bruce Holland Rogers’ story “Dinosaur.” Life In 750 words or less, move through the whole life of a character. This can be fiction, yourself, or someone you know. Think of it as a sort of highlights reel. What can you convey about this person and their life in…
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Daily Prompt #24
For our Thursday Thoughts today, let’s continue the trend from Saturday and consider parents and guardians. For Saturday Workshop, we all made lists about our parents and/or guardians, but only wrote about one. For today, write about the other one! (More) Parents On Saturday you wrote lists of unique traits of your parents and/or guardians,…
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Recommended Reading
One of my favorite things to do is recommend reading. Books, journals, authors, individual pieces. If a friend asks me for a recommendation, they will often receive a list. So here’s my list for you! I’ve separated my list into five sections, and limited myself to only a few of each, else I’d go on…
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Daily Prompt #19
Welcome back to Saturday Workshop! As always, please share your response to today’s prompt in the comments, or your opinions about my response! As a refresher of our workshop practices to keep this a productive and healthy space, here’s a brief version of our Workshop Best Practices. Today’s prompt will be non-fiction. Parents Start by…
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Thoughts About “Interstellar Fingerprints”
Annie Marhefka, in Interstellar Fingerprints, weaves reality and metaphor into a heart-wrenching, though gentle, tide. “[W]e were three sailboats whipping over the water, each navigating a separate course, vying for the wind to inflate our sails, trying not to crash into each other’s hulls.” Interstellar Fingerprints | Variant Literature | Annie Marhefka Metaphor as a…
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Daily Prompt #15
Two weeks together already! This Tuesday Chooseday marks the beginning of our third week, and the end of the month of January. Thanks to all of you who have already joined me on this journey, and welcome to any new additions! Tuesday Choosedays are all about wide-open prompts that you can respond to however you…
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