Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The prompt for this piece was to write a character description. There were no requirements as to the character and this piece got some really interesting responses. One of my favorites was an inverse and it was the description of someone’s absence – it was a beautifully haunting piece. My piece is based off my
For the last prompt in my newspaper series, the prompt was to choose an element from a newspaper that’s not necessarily a news story. People wrote everything from obituaries to classifieds to advertisements, sports stories, crime, and reviews. I went with an arts story, on a topic that I feel passionate about. I feel like
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
This deep dive into newspapers started with something fun: writing into an advice column. I want to note that while I am advocating for newspaper style the subject matter can be anything from real to fantasy to sci-fi. My question is actually one I have been asking lately – not for a thesis – but
The prompt this week was poetry but make sure to include a metaphor. This is a figure of speech that gets used a lot but it is still work re-visiting. Metaphor: A figure of speech that compares two different things by stating that one is the other, highlighting similarities for emphasis or symbolism (Grammarly.com) When
The prompt for this piece was to write about a special event gone wrong. It could be fiction, non-fiction, whatever makes the writer happy. Mine is fictional and I had a lot of fun writing it. Do you have a story about an event gone wrong that you could later laugh about? Let me know
In my quest to learn to write concisely in creative endeavors the prompt this week, in the spirit of Halloween was two sentence horror. Write a horror story in just two sentences. This was very difficult but people also really liked this prompt. I do love a challenge. Do you enjoy reading horror? Have you
If you have read enough original Grimm or Anderson fairy tales you know that Disney had to tone them way down to be G rated. The prompt this week was to retell a fairy tale and in the spirit of spooky season – go dark with it. I don’t think my retelling is really horror
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.
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