Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
So my prompt for this one was: You’re Earth’s 1st interplanetary ambassador on the way to meet the other planet representatives… and go. This pieces was 100% influenced by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Treasure Planet. Is it perfect no, was it fun to write, yes. The starwhales are laughing at me as I
The prompt for this week was basic flash fiction – no more than 1000 words. One of the things that I want to work on is writing concisely. This and some other prompts I have planned help with that. Do you like writing flash fiction? Let me know in the comments. I began my life
The prompt this week was form poetry, specifically the Terza Rima. Here are the guidelines for writing one: Form poetry is difficult for me, it is difficult to work within specific rules but it is helpful also. I have to actively work to change my way of thinking. Challenges are good and it makes me
The prompt this week was to pull color swatches and write a story or poem using those colors and/or the names of the colors in the story. The colors that I pulled were named: Hunt Club (dark green), Turkish Coffee (rich brown), and Framboise (deep magenta). In other news, if you are curious as to
So this prompt was a suggestion by a club member and it got a lot of love. It was also a fun bit of first person point of view writing. The prompt was to write from the point of view of the demon or ghost doing the haunting or possession. Here were some of the
I will admit, when I first took over the Writing Group, I wasn’t sure how the poetry forms were going to go over but the group members really seemed to like them. This poem form has lots of specifics. From Poets.org: The villanelle is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by
This was a fun prompt, yes, it was to make a spoof of a recipe blog posts but instead of telling about a fantastic recipe, we wrote about how it went wrong. This could be a real story, a magic, fantastical fiction. Whatever made us happy. Mine as magic. Also, if you are curious for
The prompt this week was to write a fable. The basics of a fable are that they have a moral and the characters are typically animals. This was surprisingly difficult. I’m not sure mine is a good fable but it follows the basic rules. Have you read a fable since you were a kid? Have
This last week’s prompt was a great way to start National Poetry month: the Ode. A poem of praise. There are a variety of different types of odes but being that we didn’t have a lot of time, I chose the contemporary or irregular ode. Do you have a favorite type of ode? What would
Hello all, the prompt for this week was pick a song and write about the emotions that it evokes. Some of the resulting pieces were sweet, some were relaxing, and there was a bit of trauma. Art is not always bright and happy, sometimes it’s dark and painful, sometimes it is not beautiful but it
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