Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
A little something for Valentine’s Day. Not an ode to a person but love of a living thing. Thorny vines clinging to an old barbed wire fence. Delicate petals scorching under the Texas sun, edges turning from palest pink to scorched brown. Despite their delicate nature and the tenacious tendency to cling, and the thorns
I am back after the chaos of the holidays. The prompt for this week was to write a poem while using the figurative language, apostrophe. Apostrophe: Apostrophe as a figure of speech is when a character addresses someone or something that isn’t present or cannot respond. The character might speak to someone deceased, an inanimate
The prompt this week was to write a poem with a hyperbole. Some were serious, mine was written to be funny. Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally (Grammarly.com). Also, I am sorry for not posting more. In addition to the normally busy life I lead, the holidays are upon us.
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.
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
This past week’s prompt was Epic Poetry. I will preface this by saying: no, we did not have time to write a full Epic. It was more looking at the elements: magic, a hero, a vast setting, etc. I did not start a new piece for this prompt; instead I worked on a poem I
One of the things that we’ve really been working on at writing club is writing concisely. This week’s prompt was a mini-saga, a 50 word short story. My plan was to write flash fiction and then shorten that over time. I have done this but plenty of people have written something new for each of
The prompt this last week was dreams – open to any interpretation of that. Even though I decide on the prompts, I had no idea what I was going to write about when I sat down to write this one. It’s not my best but at least I got something on the page. What do
The idea with this prompt was to start with free verse poetry and add an element of form poetry to making writing a bit more of a challenge. Examples: The form poetry element was left up to the writer, I just provided suggestions. I chose to play with a Sonnet (14 lines – turn at
The purpose of this prompt was to make the setting the main focus. I wanted people to write something that if they moved the story out of this particular setting, the story wouldn’t work. I could not have written this story at sea level or on the Great Plains. As a writer I tend to
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