Tag: Creative writing
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Daily Prompt #40
Welcome back to Tuesday Chooseday! As always, you pick which genre you would like to respond to this prompt with – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, something hybrid and fun – go wild! Revision I’m doing a lot of revising right now, what with it being finals week and all, so revision is on the brain. As…
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Daily Prompt # 39
Happy Fantastic Monday Everyone! As a nod to the in-between space I am occupying right now, part-finals and part-spring break, today’s prompt is about the betweens. The liminal spaces of the world. Threshold For today, write about standing on the threshold of something. Peeking through your wardrobe into your very own Narnia. The big challenge…
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Daily Prompt #38
Welcome to Saturday Workshop! As a refresher, on Saturdays, I invite everyone to turn the comments into a workshop space. Everyone is welcome to post their responses to every prompt, but these Saturday responses are the only ones I can guarantee I’ll respond to. Also! On Saturdays, I include my response to the prompt as…
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Daily Prompt #37
It’s another Flash Friday! And an especially lovely one at that, considering it marks the end of winter term. For today, we turn back to Burroway’s Imaginative Writing for our prompt. Try This 3.2 “Imagine (remember?) that you have borrowed (“borrowed”?) a car and been involved in a fender bender. Write an explanation for the…
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Daily Prompt #36
Ready to get thoughtful? Thursday Thoughts are here again! As a reminder, Thursday prompts are for nonfiction—flash, poetry, diary entries—anything that’s true and from the real world 🙂 Today we are in for those late-night thoughts. The sad ones, the weird ones, the slightly surreal ones. What do you think about when you are awake…
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Daily Prompt #34
Happy Tuesday Chooseday! Remember on Tuesdays, you choose what genre you use to respond to the prompt — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, something fun and hybrid. Up to you! Random Selection For today, you are going to get three random words. I got these words from Random Word Generator. Session Discourage Option Using these three words,…
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Lit Mags and Reading Fees: What is the Solution?
For a number of years now, reading fees have been a hot topic in the writing community. Why should we be paying to be rejected? These fees have become a norm, with many prestigious (and not so prestigious) journals succumbing to relying on the writers looking to be published for their support. Some of these…
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Daily Prompt #33
I hope you are having another Fantastic Monday! I hear our friends over in California have intense amounts of snow right now, please stay safe! Dungeons & Dragons If you are familiar with D&D, today’s prompt is to write a character background as if you are about to start a campaign. If you are unfamiliar…
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Daily Prompt #32
Time for some Sunday Verse! For today’s prompt, find a line of poetry that inspires you or captures your attention. It could be a Psalm, a line from Shakespeare, something written by Maya Angelou, it doesn’t matter. Any line of poetry. Riff Now that you have your line, use it as an epigraph. Riff off…
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