Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
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
The prompt this week was monster as symbols. I went with one of my favorites, of course: the werewolf. Honesty, I’m not sure why I love them so much. I think it has to do with this idea of a monster inside but I also like the more modern notions that when the person shifts
The prompt this week was to write a short horror story. I don’t typically write horror so this was definitely a challenge but I am not unhappy with the way this turned out. This short story has been workshopped a bit and cleaned up – unlike most of my writing group pieces. Happy start to
The theme for this week at writing group was cycles. I wrote about how celestial bodies were all interconnected. This poem was meant to be about constellations initially but it grew. I might actually workshop it a bit to clean it up and include some additional cycles like moon phases and potentially include additional constellations.
The prompt for this week was urban fantasy, with a twist. We had to write about someone in a seemingly regular profession and I selected chef. Urban Fantasy: is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in an approximation of a contemporary urban setting. The combination provides the writer with a platform for classic fantasy tropes, quixotic plot-elements, and unusual characters—without
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