Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
This week’s prompt was to write about the circus in any way. Maybe you are a circus performer, maybe one of the circus animal, maybe the circus personified. I wrote about looking at the circus through the eyes of a child and the eyes of an adult. I really like the imagery invoked by the
This is a combination of pictures that both Keltin and I have both taken on film. There is something magical about the cyclical nature of life. I hope that you enjoy these and here is to winter’s gray so that we may appreciate spring’s blooms. There is a beauty in decayTo quote The Lion KingThe
The prompt that sparked this poem was we were given a random adjective and to write prose, story, or poem that came to mind when that adjective was said. Enjoy my thoughts on what it means to be loving. Love well, write what makes you happy, and read everything. Loving: adjective – warmly affectionate; fond
It has been a moment since I have posted a piece from writing group. Sometimes I don’t like what I have written, sometimes the piece is too personal. This was a fun pieces to warm us in the heart of a cold January. The prompt was comfort. I went through a few ideas before setting
The prompt this week was a story or poem in which the weather played a key role. I wanted to play on It was a dark and stormy night but in a way that wasn’t spooky. How do you think I did? Let me know in the comments! Wind whips, howling highBranches tremble, leaves fly Caught
This week we all drew different descriptions of houses, homes. Some were creepy, some were sad, some were normal. My Prompt: Red Brick – This home is made of sturdy red brick and has seen better days. It has several large trees sitting on the overgrown lawn. Who lives here? The tire swing swayed in
The writing prompt for this week was to write about an alien planet. This could be a real planet, a fictional planet, or one based off planets in media. Whatever we wanted. This started out as a Firefly reference and turned into something that kind of Avatar-ish with some To Sleep in a Sea of
This week for writing group we gave each other a line from a song. This lyric started our poem. No, it did not have to be the first line of a song. I was given a line from Me and the Devil by Soap&Skin. I did not know the song title until after writing the
The prompt this week was to change an element in a scene from a piece of media. I selected the ROUS scene from the Fire Swamp in the Princess Bride. Despite my overall love of this movie, and understanding that certain directorial choices were made, it always bothered me that Buttercup just watched in this
The prompt this week was folklore. I chose to write about the Thunderbird from Native legend. Each Native tribe that has a Thunderbird story tells a unique version. My poem pulls from serval versions of the Thunderbird story. This is not meant to represent any one telling, it is simply for creative purposes. Thunderbird: Described
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