Tag: Creative writing
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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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Daily Prompt #14
Fantastic Monday arrives again, and for it we will again dive into the vast wells of our imagination. Today, our prompt has to do with journeys. You can decide to lean towards fantasy or the mundane, micro-fiction or the seeds of a novel, the details are up to you! Many of our most famous epics…
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Daily Prompt #12
Welcome to our second Saturday Workshop! Since we did fiction last week, let’s do poetry this week! Remember to keep in mind our Workshop Best Practices as you approach commenting on each others’ work. As always, you are encouraged to include your responses to any daily prompt in the comments, but I will only guarantee…
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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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Thoughts About “The Prairie Wife” and “What Got Into Us”
In both The Prairie Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld and What Got Into Us by Jacob Guajardo the narrator jumps back and forth in time. What Got Into Us uses this device in a slightly more subtle way, sliding between times with very little indication of the switch, whereas The Prairie Wife gives indicators such as…
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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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Workshop Best Practices
Workshops can be tricky! Despite their usefulness, it is very easy for them to become something that writers dread. I have been in workshops wherein my peers made me cry. I have also been in workshops that were incredibly validating, but too praise-heavy to be useful. So how do we find a balance? Some of…
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