Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt this week was to write a poem with a hyperbole. Some were serious, mine was written to be funny. Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally (Grammarly.com). Also, I am sorry for not posting more. In addition to the normally busy life I lead, the holidays are upon us.
I try and do poetry once a month and lately I’ve been highlighting using Figurative Language. This week we looked at antithesis. My hope with this is to make writing club members aware of tools that they can use later in other writing projects. Antithesis: uses parallel structure to juxtapose contrasting ideas. (Grammarly.com) This prompt
The prompt that produced this story was “Found Footage.” The inspiration was The Blair Witch Project. This is probably the best well know found footage movie. This was a great way to end the Halloween season. My short story does not deal with video but film. This is the unpolished, original story. I will probably
If you have read enough original Grimm or Anderson fairy tales you know that Disney had to tone them way down to be G rated. The prompt this week was to retell a fairy tale and in the spirit of spooky season – go dark with it. I don’t think my retelling is really horror
Denton Writing Club’s first zine! Depending on how this one does we will look at publishing more on a schedule but for now, we are just super happy to have this one live! There are also print versions. I have to give full credit to the members of the writing club that are willing to
I’m behind on posting. I feel like this is a consistent problem. Anyway, I am consistent with writing club and one of the things that I’ve started doing is highlighting figurative language. This week’s was alliteration. Definition: Alliteration refers to repeating consonant sounds right next to each other, which creates a memorable or melodic effect.
It is officially fall and for the writing group that means it is the start of spooky season. We are starting off with a prompt about meeting a cryptid or creature from folklore. This could be in any context. Yes, I did mix my folklore creatures from different regions. This was a fun pieces. Some
If you have been following along for a while you know that at club have been working on writing concisely. This prompt is called a Hint, a story written in just 25 words. I have been working on shortening one particular story over time. Telling a story in 25 words is difficult. A lot of
This past week’s prompt was Epic Poetry. I will preface this by saying: no, we did not have time to write a full Epic. It was more looking at the elements: magic, a hero, a vast setting, etc. I did not start a new piece for this prompt; instead I worked on a poem I
One of the things that we’ve really been working on at writing club is writing concisely. This week’s prompt was a mini-saga, a 50 word short story. My plan was to write flash fiction and then shorten that over time. I have done this but plenty of people have written something new for each of
McGee Travel Tales 