Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt for this week was to write poetry and include idioms. Idioms are not only language specific, because they rarely translate well, they can also be very regionally specific. One of the idioms in my poem got some raised eyebrows because it was one they hadn’t heard before – can you guess which one?
Social media, the bane of all of our existences and yet our addiction. Well I decided to make it useful as a writing prompt. I’ve talked about this before on here that I like to try and use some prompts as a way to help writers expand their world without just using exposition. I’ve read
We recently went to San Francisco and a few other places in California. I intended to post the video first but we don’t have photos back yet. Because yes, we took a ton of film photos on both 35mm and 120 film. Yes, we do know how to develop photos but I have this habit
The prompt for this week was to write a piece that was observation only, no added emotional bias. I feel like a lot of these ended up being horror. This was difficult to write. As writers we try so hard to infuse our writing with emotion and removing that emotion is not easy. I decided
The prompt for this week was Cowboy Poetry. This style of poetry originates in the American west and is fairly fluid in style with a loose rhyme scheme. In all the research I did for this prompt, the only consistent thing that I could find is that Cowboy Poetry shares elements of Epic poetry because
Recently we visited Kansas for a family reunion and decided to make a road trip. There was so much driving that being said, we saw some cool things and I was reminded that there is some stuff I would like to go see. Wichita, KS We visited the Keeper of the Plains. Yes, we did
The prompt for this was a little bit different. I asked club members to write the space a character exists in, not the charter themself. I wanted to know them from how they lived. For this prompt I used the characters from my work-in-progress. Evander was a statue and now he is a person and
The prompt for this week was to write in 2nd person. While this was a difficult prompt, there were some fantastic pieces. My favorite might be the one where a club member wrote a choose your own adventure that needed crowd participation. Top tier writing and presentation. Second person generally serves one of two purposes:
While working on a different Kansas post from earlier this year, I realized that I didn’t actually post about visiting Fort Larned National Historic Site in late 2025. I am going to fix that now. Both of these sites are free to visit and are worth the time. Pawnee Rock State Historic Site Before we
The prompt this week was to write a misunderstanding, feel free to intemperate it however you want. I went a bit meta and wrote something that is a bit more of a discussion. Let me know your opinion on misunderstandings in literature in the comments. Happy reading. Something a Bit Meta on the Misunderstandings The
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