Tag: Creative writing
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Daily Prompt #7
For Mondays, we will be focusing on fiction! This first Monday together, we will be working on a prompt from Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing. Get those imaginative juices flowing! You can go off into the surreal and fantastical, or stay in the realm of realistic fiction, up to you. Try This 9.8 “All of the…
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Daily Prompt #6
Sundays, we will dedicate to verse. Let’s awaken our inner poets! Some prompts will focus on one form of verse or another – rhymes and iambs and all that – while others it will be up to you. If there is a specific element of technique I want you to try, I’ll explain it and/or…
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Daily Prompt #5
Saturdays, we’re going to do something a little special. These prompts, I will also include my own response to them! Additionally, I welcome you to turn the comments into a sort of workshop space to to critique and praise each others’ writing (and mine if you want to). The rest of the week you are…
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Daily Prompt #4
I love flash, so I decided to dedicate Fridays entirely to flash! Today we will follow the Tuesday Chooseday model, in that you get to decide the genre of your response – so long as it stays flash. Some weeks we will pick fiction or non-fiction, etc. But this week all that matters is that…
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Thoughts About “I Minotaur”
In Natalie Diaz’s essay “A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire” for LA Review of Books she writes, “Language is a physical energy, a force gifted by the creators so that we might pray to our gods, cry out for our dead, and beckon our beloveds home.” Her poem, “I, Minotaur”…
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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 #2
This is day 2! Our first Wednesday together! We all know Wednesdays are wacky, so our Wednesday prompts will be all about the weird, the surreal, and the just kind of kooky. Silly Monsters I want you to describe a monster for me – as scary as you can make it! Big teeth, too many…
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A Review of “Club Plum”
“Club Plum is a house party. We play all the good music. The DJ dances and laughs and knows that today is yesterday, and today is tomorrow, and pain is forever, so we’ve got to crack out the joy and ride the beat.” Thea Swanson | founding editor of Club Plum Club Plum is very…
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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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