Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt that sparked these two poems was jokingly named poems of salt, things we disliked, this that frustrated us. There were a lot of heavy poems the week we wrote these. Mine are a bit lighter, a bit more metaphoric but still have themes that are important to me. What poems of salt would
April in National Poetry Month. The prompt for this week was to write a poem of dedication to something we admire or find beautiful. I wrote two about love and about books. Happy reading. Ode to Love Love, an odd emotionDisplaying itself in So many ways. Of’t imagined asGrand gesturesWild passionsWhirlwind romance At the start thatMaybe true Time
The prompt for writing group this week was to write about a battle. This battle could be real, fictional, or metaphorical. I went with an obscure battle that was ultimately fought because of pride. This is the Battle of the Book that occurred in what is now Sligo County, Ireland. You can read the full
So the writing prompt for this story was to rewrite a myth. One of my least favorite myths is Pygmalion from Ovid’s Metamorphosis. I don’t like it because it gives me a serious ick vibes. This myth influenced other media, most notably, My Fair Lady. I love reading reimagined mythology and so I thought that
Hello all! I have been writing even if I haven’t shared anything recently. I was really happy with the story below. The prompt was actually a call back to one of the original ones. We picked color swatches and used the names in the story. In writing this, I wanted it to be almost like
The prompt for the week I wrote this piece was exploring different types of Irony. I will admit, it had been a busy week and I took the easy way out and wrote a story for verbal irony (sarcasm). There are some that will argue that sarcasm is not actually a form of irony. To
This story was a ton of fun to write. It got me my third writer of the week – although I did tie with another person and I can’t be mad about that because I voted for their story as well. This prompt was a little weird. We rolled D&D dice to determine which D&D
This prompt was to write about lesser known cryptids. I selected the Enfield Horror, and originally I wrote a short story working to compaire the beauty of the night to the terror of the monster. However, I didn’t like the story so I wrote something else. Cryptids Lament Horror, monster, cruel epithetsIt’s not my faultI
One of our prompts recently was that we all wrote down a wish and then drew someone else’s wish from a hat. Then in our writing we answered the wish is the worst possible way as if we were an angry djinn or forgotten wishing well. Wish Prompt: I wish I were an oscar-meyer wiener.
Today’s prompt: dinosaurs Okay, that’s a little too broad. In reality we were each given a time period from the prehistoric past of earth and wrote a story. I like how my story turned out but oh my goodness, there were some excellent and wonderfully ridiculous stories from this prompt. Journal Entry – Ship Log
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