Category: Fiction & Poetry

Writing Club: Cowboy Poetry

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

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Writing Club: Character Space

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

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Writing Club: 2nd Person

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:

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Writing Club: Misunderstanding

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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Writing Club: Lost Things

The prompt for this week was to write about lost things. I did not intend this prompt to be whimsical but a lot of the stories turned out that way – including my own. That being said, there were some very personal pieces that were shared that were very well done. This is based on

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Writing Club: Poetry: Onomatopoeia

The prompt for this week was to write a poem with sound. I do my best to highlight different literary elements and styles of writing in writing group. Yes, there are open ended prompts but I also like trying to, not teach per se, but to showcase different things that people can include in their

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Writing Group: Phobia

The prompt for this piece was phobia. An open ended prompt where writers could interpret it however they wanted. I should have saved it for October. I was so creeped out by some of these pieces. I’m not great at writing horror but I know plenty of people that are. This short piece did not

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Writing Club: Photos and Emotions

The prompt for this piece was to pick a photo and use it to inspire a written piece. I absolutely loved following the Artemis II mission. It was absolutely incredible and this is not my first Artemis II inspired piece, read the first one. I pulled one of the eclipse photos from the mission because

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Banned & Burned: Zine Vol. III

Recently I posted a number of newspaper related pieces and they were working towards this zine. This is volume 3 of the Denton Writing Club zine Banned & Burned. I am extremely proud of how this project turned out. The writing, the layout, the images, the variety. Is it perfect? No. It is something worth

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