Tag: Fiction
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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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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 #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 #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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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 #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 #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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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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