Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
This prompt was just to write about plants: trees, flowers, cactus and in whatever way made you happy. The pieces that people produced for this prompt were a lot of there were other similar to mine about specific species of plants but there were also creative pieces. There was one with definite horror vibes about
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
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
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:
