Tag: Creative writing
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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 #21
Get your imagination on! It’s another fantastic Monday! Have I convinced you to like Mondays yet? For our fiction prompt this week, I want you to write a triptych. “A painted or carved triptych typically has three hinged panels, and the two outer panels can be folded in towards the central one. A literary or…
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Daily Prompt #20
It’s time again for some Sunday Verse! Are you feeling poetic? For today’s prompt, we’re going to do something called a Golden Shovel poem. This set of poetic rules was invented by the poet Terrence Hayes, and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks. The original golden shovel is The Golden Shovel, after We Real Cool. The Rules…
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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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Daily Prompt #18
Flash Friday! Do you have anything fun you’re looking forward to this weekend? I’m thinking I’ll rustle up the motivation to make a Costco run. For this week, we will draw again from Imaginative Writing. This particular prompt is from the “Setting” chapter’s section on mood and symbol. Remember to think flash! I usually compare…
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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 #16
Wacky Wednesday comes again! For this week, our silly, surreal, or weird will be a headfirst dive into fantasy. A challenge that comes up often is, “How do we write fantasy in the short form?” Now, there are a number of beautiful examples of success in short fiction, but what about flash fiction? By its…
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Review of “Flash Fiction International”
Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World is an anthology of flash fiction that has lived on my bookshelf for a number of years now. All eighty-six of these stories served as mentors for me during my initial discovery of flash nearly seven years ago now. Each story is it’s own perfect…
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