Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt for this week was to write a poem with sound. I do my best to highlight different literary elements and styles of writing in writing group. Yes, there are open ended prompts but I also like trying to, not teach per se, but to showcase different things that people can include in their
In my quest to take a deep dive into newspapers with the Denton Writing Club. I decided to do a prompt on opinion pieces, also know as op-eds. The topics could be legitimate or made up. Plenty of people discussed made up issues but many members, including myself wrote about real issues, everything from 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 this last week was to select an image from a selection of interesting medieval manuscript art and write anything about it. I selected two separate images. The story for the second image is below. Normally I only do edits for spelling but I also did I a bit of reorganization as far as
The prompt this last week was to select an image from a selection of interesting medieval manuscript art and write anything about it. I selected two separate images. The story for the first image is below. As always the only edits I have made are for spelling. Snails The original text said snakes but the
For this prompt we all drew old movie titles from a hat and wrote either news stories or movie trailer based on the title. This was a ton of fun and we all laughed a lot at how ridiculous these got. As always, these short stories are unedited besides spelling. The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
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