Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
Recently I posted a number of newspaper related pieces and they were working towards this zine. This is volume 3 of the Denton Writing Club zine Banned & Burned. I am extremely proud of how this project turned out. The writing, the layout, the images, the variety. Is it perfect? No. It is something worth
I realized that I did not share the second volume of the Denton Writing Club zine. This volume of Banned & Burned looks at the interwoven themes of Love, Food, & Yearning. This was actually a Valentine’s Day when I didn’t want to write just about romantic love. The cover art was done by two
The prompt for this scene was to write an artist going mad as they attempt to complete their magnum opus, their great work. And the pieces that were written were fantastic. I know some very creative people. These pieces defiantly had a horror vibe. Trigger Warning: Blood. Self mutilation. Read at your own risk. Writing
The prompt for this piece was to write a character description. There were no requirements as to the character and this piece got some really interesting responses. One of my favorites was an inverse and it was the description of someone’s absence – it was a beautifully haunting piece. My piece is based off my
The prompt for this piece was to write a genre that you don’t normally write or aren’t particularly good at writing. I picked a thriller. I read thrillers maybe once every other year – they give me anxiety. I was going to write horror but I actually write decent short horror. See my recent News
For the last prompt in my newspaper series, the prompt was to choose an element from a newspaper that’s not necessarily a news story. People wrote everything from obituaries to classifieds to advertisements, sports stories, crime, and reviews. I went with an arts story, on a topic that I feel passionate about. I feel like
The prompt for this week was to write a news story. This is obviously a fake story, but I did my best to write in the inverted pyramid news style of an actual news article that you would find in a newspaper. This was defiantly inspired by the Artemis II trip around the moon. The
Last week I talked about Advice Column questions, this week we answered those questions. This is a fun exercise to respond to another person’s writing. I responded to an Advice Column question that was about a rogue geneticist that had released a pack of proto-triceratops into a neighborhood. The person asking the question asked if
The prompt for this piece was to write about a special event gone wrong. It could be fiction, non-fiction, whatever makes the writer happy. Mine is fictional and I had a lot of fun writing it. Do you have a story about an event gone wrong that you could later laugh about? Let me know
In the continuation of working with figurative language, this prompt was to use euphemisms. Euphemism: Figure of speech that replaces a harsh, direct, or unpleasant term with a milder, more indirect expression (Grammarly.com). We must be free-spirited And strong-willed While going Toe-to-toeWith those a bit too economical with the truthThey aren’t even trying to Hide their light-fingered ways So we
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