Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt this week was to write a short horror story. I don’t typically write horror so this was definitely a challenge but I am not unhappy with the way this turned out. This short story has been workshopped a bit and cleaned up – unlike most of my writing group pieces. Happy start to
The prompt for this story is what would happen if mythical creatures were real in this day and age. What would people do? How would the creatures act? Creatures such dragons, mermaids, giants, unicorns, and so on. The stories produced by this prompt were fantastic. My story is based off what is jokingly called the
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
Title: GalateaAuthor: Madeline MillerPublication Date: 2013Publishing House: Ecco It has been a while since I’ve done a book review! I have been reading but I’ve also been very busy. This story is an older pieces of writing, I had heard of it but I hadn’t come across a copy until recently and decided that pretty
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
Title: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other StoriesAuthor: Susanna ClarkePublication Date: 2006Publishing House: Bloomsbury USA I recently read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and I was excited to see that the library had this book by her as well. Synopsis: Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics’ favorite “Jonathan Strange & Mr
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
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.
Time for some yuletide tales! For this prompt we selected a creature from a winter holiday belief system from around the world with a very brief description. I selected the Mari Lwyd. This is a bit of Welsh mythos-tradition, the only description I was given was a horse skull draped in a cloth that requests
We are a little past spooky season but I am a bit behind on my stories and I do love how this one turned out. Prompt: Cryptids and mythological creatures are now out in society and know to the humans. What are they doing now. If possible, try for a bit of rom-com. Crypid: [noun]
McGee Travel Tales 