Tag: writing prompt
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Daily Prompt #16
Wacky Wednesday comes again! For this week, our silly, surreal, or weird will be a headfirst dive into fantasy. A challenge that comes up often is, “How do we write fantasy in the short form?” Now, there are a number of beautiful examples of success in short fiction, but what about flash fiction? By its…
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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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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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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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