Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt for this week was to write a news story. This is obviously a fake story, but I did my best to write in the inverted pyramid news style of an actual news article that you would find in a newspaper. This was defiantly inspired by the Artemis II trip around the moon. The
Eventually I’ll catch-up on all my travels and documenting them but this is not that day. I am getting closer though. Last summer we went to Colorado and I had time to take a couple of short solo hikes while there. I was really out of shape while on these hikes and funny enough this
In my quest to take a deep dive into newspapers with the Denton Writing Club. I decided to do a prompt on opinion pieces, also know as op-eds. The topics could be legitimate or made up. Plenty of people discussed made up issues but many members, including myself wrote about real issues, everything from the
A trip like this takes a lot of preparation. So much preparation in fact that I made two videos about it. This first video covers a gear prep overnight trip that my sister and I took to iron out any issues with our tack and expose the mules to a different environment before the Utah
Last week I talked about Advice Column questions, this week we answered those questions. This is a fun exercise to respond to another person’s writing. I responded to an Advice Column question that was about a rogue geneticist that had released a pack of proto-triceratops into a neighborhood. The person asking the question asked if
We gave the mules and horse a day off. Part of the group we were with went fishing. We had fresh fish for breakfast the next morning and it was wonderful. While they were fishing, we went hiking in Bryce Canyon National Park. We hired a driver service to pick us up at the horse
This deep dive into newspapers started with something fun: writing into an advice column. I want to note that while I am advocating for newspaper style the subject matter can be anything from real to fantasy to sci-fi. My question is actually one I have been asking lately – not for a thesis – but
We rode a variety of different types of trails while in Utah. Everything from flat topped mesas to slot canyons to between the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park to a hogs back. I cannot put into words how beautiful this part of the country is. When you watch my video below you can hear
The prompt this week was poetry but make sure to include a metaphor. This is a figure of speech that gets used a lot but it is still work re-visiting. Metaphor: A figure of speech that compares two different things by stating that one is the other, highlighting similarities for emphasis or symbolism (Grammarly.com) When
The prompt for this piece was to write about a special event gone wrong. It could be fiction, non-fiction, whatever makes the writer happy. Mine is fictional and I had a lot of fun writing it. Do you have a story about an event gone wrong that you could later laugh about? Let me know
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