Tag: writing
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Daily Prompt #19
Welcome back to Saturday Workshop! As always, please share your response to today’s prompt in the comments, or your opinions about my response! As a refresher of our workshop practices to keep this a productive and healthy space, here’s a brief version of our Workshop Best Practices. Today’s prompt will be non-fiction. Parents Start by…
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Daily Prompt #18
Flash Friday! Do you have anything fun you’re looking forward to this weekend? I’m thinking I’ll rustle up the motivation to make a Costco run. For this week, we will draw again from Imaginative Writing. This particular prompt is from the “Setting” chapter’s section on mood and symbol. Remember to think flash! I usually compare…
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Thoughts About “Interstellar Fingerprints”
Annie Marhefka, in Interstellar Fingerprints, weaves reality and metaphor into a heart-wrenching, though gentle, tide. “[W]e were three sailboats whipping over the water, each navigating a separate course, vying for the wind to inflate our sails, trying not to crash into each other’s hulls.” Interstellar Fingerprints | Variant Literature | Annie Marhefka Metaphor as a…
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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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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 #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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