Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
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:
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
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
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
I have too many hobbies, too many things that I want to do. A lot of that involves writing. There is a historical research project I want to work on, there are other stories in my head but before I get to them, I need to finish the current one. To that end, I am
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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