Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
I got my photos back! So if you read my book post you know that I was waiting on film photos so that I could finish my video. I did finish my video and then I took forever to post it here. Honestly, I get bust and forget where I’m at in my posting schedule
So the second part of last week’s screenplay prompt was to add dialogue. I set the prompts up this way so that people could focus on the different elements without feeling completely overwhelmed by a new style of writing. Again, this is a scene from my work-in-progress novel. There context missing but that because I
I am done with draft four! I’ve actually been done with it for a couple of weeks. I have sent the draft to a few friends to beta read for me and I’m waiting anxiously for feedback. The plan, once I receive all of their feedback here in the next few weeks, is to edit
This is weeks late. I’ve been busy. This prompt is a bit of an attempt at writing a screenplay. Fun fact: from the research I did before this prompt, there are no hard and fast rules for writing a screenplay. Part one of our screenplay prompts was just to set the scene. Dialogue will be
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
