Tag: Fiction
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Scaling the Cliff: Submitting to Literary Journals for the First Time
A friend asked me today about getting published in literary journals and magazines, and I want to share my response with all of you. I love helping people get started with getting published, and talk about it often with my friends, so this blog post almost feels past-due. Luckily, the friend who reached out to…
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Writing Prompt #46
Hullo fabulous folks! Grab a pen and a notebook! To celebrate the resuscitation of this blog, Prompt #46 is going to be all about rebirth, rejuvenation, and recovery. When was the last time you sat down and thought about something you overcame in life—college application statements don’t count! It’s time to do a little appreciation…
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Writing Prompt #45
It’s a Tuesday Chooseday! I’m back with another choose-your-own-adventure kind of prompt 🙂 For today, we’ll recycle a prompt from my Spoken Word class that I’ve been enjoying playing with. For an extra challenge, try writing your response with a spoken performance in mind, whatever genre you choose! Apocalyptic The day the world ended I……
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Daily Prompt #44
Welcome to another Fantastic Monday! Eventually, I will convince myself not to hate Mondays. For today’s prompt, we’re going to go mythical! We’re also going to work on messing around with form. Instruction Manual For today, put together some instructions from one person (or group) in a fantasy world to another person (or group) in…
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Daily Prompt #43
Are you as excited as I am for Flash Friday? Flash is my favorite genre to write, so this is my favorite day of the week! (nothing to do with it being Friday, promise.) Today, I am anticipating Spring Break more than ever. Finals will be over, and I will step out of the in-between…
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Daily Prompt #41
Hi all! I hope you are having a wonderfully Wacky Wednesday! Today, we will err on the silly side of the surreal and strange. Have you ever noticed that many fables have a sort of rhythm to them? They roll and undulate–perfect for speaking out loud. One tool that can create that effect is repeating…
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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 #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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