Tag: time

• Daily Prompt #22

  Cheers to another Tuesday Chooseday! Is it a comfort-zone kind of week, or will you try something different?  This Tuesday, let’s play with time. Think about time in writing—sometimes it moves very quickly indeed, covering days or years in only a few hundred words. Sometimes it’s like molasses, pages and pages, hundreds of pages even,…

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  February 7, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Tuesday Chooseday!

  creative non-fiction, Creative writing, Fiction, flash, hemingway, hills like white elephants, moments, Non-Fiction, playing with time, Poetry, time, Tuesday Chooseday!, writing, writing prompt

• 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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  January 26, 2023

  Fiction, Thoughts About

  Creative writing, curtis sittenfeld, Fiction, jacob guajardo, the prairie wife, thoughts about fiction, time, what got into us, writing

• 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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  January 26, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Thursday Thoughts

  beginnings, creative non-fiction, Creative writing, Non-Fiction, Thursday Thoughts, time, writing, writing prompt