Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
I realized that I did not share the second volume of the Denton Writing Club zine. This volume of Banned & Burned looks at the interwoven themes of Love, Food, & Yearning. This was actually a Valentine’s Day when I didn’t want to write just about romantic love. The cover art was done by two
The prompt for this scene was to write an artist going mad as they attempt to complete their magnum opus, their great work. And the pieces that were written were fantastic. I know some very creative people. These pieces defiantly had a horror vibe. Trigger Warning: Blood. Self mutilation. Read at your own risk. Writing
When you give a nerd a chance to research… The prompt for this piece was dinosaurs or just extinct reptiles or extinct birds. The evolutionary splits are quite fantastic, but that’s a rabbit hole for an other time. This was either a loved or hated prompt because dinosaurs or animals alive during the days of
The prompt for this piece was to write a character description. There were no requirements as to the character and this piece got some really interesting responses. One of my favorites was an inverse and it was the description of someone’s absence – it was a beautifully haunting piece. My piece is based off my
The prompt for this piece was to write a genre that you don’t normally write or aren’t particularly good at writing. I picked a thriller. I read thrillers maybe once every other year – they give me anxiety. I was going to write horror but I actually write decent short horror. See my recent News
For the last prompt in my newspaper series, the prompt was to choose an element from a newspaper that’s not necessarily a news story. People wrote everything from obituaries to classifieds to advertisements, sports stories, crime, and reviews. I went with an arts story, on a topic that I feel passionate about. I feel like
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
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
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
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
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