Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt this last week was dreams – open to any interpretation of that. Even though I decide on the prompts, I had no idea what I was going to write about when I sat down to write this one. It’s not my best but at least I got something on the page. What do
The idea with this prompt was to start with free verse poetry and add an element of form poetry to making writing a bit more of a challenge. Examples: The form poetry element was left up to the writer, I just provided suggestions. I chose to play with a Sonnet (14 lines – turn at
The purpose of this prompt was to make the setting the main focus. I wanted people to write something that if they moved the story out of this particular setting, the story wouldn’t work. I could not have written this story at sea level or on the Great Plains. As a writer I tend to
A Drabble is a story of 100 words. I selected this as a prompt to work on concise writing. If you remember the Flash Fiction from a few weeks back my plan was to use that as a starting point for this piece. Some group members used it, some didn’t and that’s okay. We all
The prompt for this poem was pick a poem, any poem ,and take a single element that you like from that poem and write your own poem using that element. I selected My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. This poem is deceptively dark and messed up. That is not the element I chose to replicate,
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
McGee Travel Tales 