Tag: writing
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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 #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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Workshop Best Practices
Workshops can be tricky! Despite their usefulness, it is very easy for them to become something that writers dread. I have been in workshops wherein my peers made me cry. I have also been in workshops that were incredibly validating, but too praise-heavy to be useful. So how do we find a balance? Some of…
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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 #6
Sundays, we will dedicate to verse. Let’s awaken our inner poets! Some prompts will focus on one form of verse or another – rhymes and iambs and all that – while others it will be up to you. If there is a specific element of technique I want you to try, I’ll explain it and/or…
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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 #4
I love flash, so I decided to dedicate Fridays entirely to flash! Today we will follow the Tuesday Chooseday model, in that you get to decide the genre of your response – so long as it stays flash. Some weeks we will pick fiction or non-fiction, etc. But this week all that matters is that…
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