Tag: creative non-fiction
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Daily Prompt #11
Flash Friday is here again! One of my favorite ways to consider flash is as a snow globe—a contained, singular scene. A tiny world encased in glass. This glass border is translucent, making it so the scene in the snow globe is both entirely contained, and interacting with the world outside. Flash, to me, is…
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Daily Prompt #10
More Thursday Thoughts! As always, this Thursday will be dedicated to creative non-fiction. The Thoughts About post that will also be coming out today talks about time, so that will be our focus here as well! For this prompt, I will draw from a workshop I took titled “Time in Memoir” the first term of…
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Daily Prompt #9
From Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola, this Wacky Wednesday we are going to try a non-fiction prompt! Now, you can think of this as the beginning of something big, or just a germ of thought, but start by limiting yourself. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Set a limit of 400…
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Daily Prompt #8
Another Tuesday Chooseday! Again, that means you choose what genre you use to respond to this prompt—fiction, poetry, non-fiction, or some combination thereof. As always, please feel free to include your response in the comments! Characters Via Objects For today’s prompt, think of a small, sentimentally precious object. If you are doing non-fiction, pick some…
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Daily Prompt #3
Thursdays are almost the end of the week, and I for one always feel kind of like I’m floating through the world without really experiencing it, very caught up in my own thoughts. What kind of nostalgia do these moods inspire in you, when you have them? Todays prompt is from Tell It Slant by…
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Daily Prompt #1
So it begins! As such, let’s begin with one of my favorite prompts for generating writing when stuck: “Try This 1.2” from Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing 4th edition (also known as my personal bible). Tuesdays, I am decreeing as you choose days. This prompt is non-genre specific. Write fiction! Write memoir! Write poetry! Write some…
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