Tag: Creative writing
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Daily Prompt #31
Thursday Thoughts! What are you feeling thoughtful about today? I’m caught up in winter weather, courtesy of the sleeting snow/rain wintery mix making me want to curl up in front of a fire with a mug of tea and a good book. Unfortunately, my apartment doesn’t have a fireplace. Cozy For today’s prompt, think of…
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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 #28
Fantastic Monday comes again! Ready to get your imagination on? For today’s prompt, we’re going to be thinking of animals. Specifically, mythological animals! Creatures Pick your favorite fantasy or mythological creature. Dragons, unicorns, gryphons, owl-bears. Now, describe that creature in detail. What does it look like? How does it move? How does it behave? When…
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Daily Prompt #27
Sunday Verse! Another writing prompt to exercise your poetry pen. For today’s prompt, we will draw inspiration from the weather. It’s been a bit of a strange winter here in Chicago. Can’t seem to decide if it wants to be cold or not. What’s Your Season? Think of your favorite season. Now your least favorite.…
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Daily Prompt #26
Welcome back to Saturday Workshop! Remember our Workshop Best Practices, and please participate and have fun! For this week, we’ll go back to poetry for our workshop. We will also turn again to the pages of Imaginative Writing. Try This 3.14 “An ode is a serious, meditative lyric poem that treats a noble subject in…
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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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Thoughts About “Hologram”
In the poem “Hologram,” Lauren Westerfield makes use of a variety of different forms of repetition. Anaphora, in particular, is one form of repetition she utilizes consistently. Each section of this four section poem has its own anaphora, with the third section having two (though it can perhaps be argued that the second is not,…
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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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Daily Prompt #23
For this Wacky Wednesday, the name of the game is horror! Horror can also be many other things, fantasy, sci-fi, fiction. I don’t care which one you pick today, as long as it’s scary! I’ve been re-reading Stephen King’s On Writing, so horror is on the brain. Human Monsters There is nothing scarier than a…
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