Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
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.
I know I haven’t posted as much as I intended this summer. I have been busy, in good ways: Working on my novel rewrite (40k words and counting) Running the Denton Writing Club Prepping for a trip where we are taking mules and a horse Honestly, this last part has taken the most time because
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
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,
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
Life throws us interesting curve balls. A little over two years ago Keltin and I joined the Denton Writing Club on a whim as a chance to explore creative writing with like-mined people. We have made some amazing friends being part of this community. That being said: I never thought that I would end up
