Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
This week’s prompt was to write about the circus in any way. Maybe you are a circus performer, maybe one of the circus animal, maybe the circus personified. I wrote about looking at the circus through the eyes of a child and the eyes of an adult. I really like the imagery invoked by the
The prompt that sparked this poem was we were given a random adjective and to write prose, story, or poem that came to mind when that adjective was said. Enjoy my thoughts on what it means to be loving. Love well, write what makes you happy, and read everything. Loving: adjective – warmly affectionate; fond
This week we all drew different descriptions of houses, homes. Some were creepy, some were sad, some were normal. My Prompt: Red Brick – This home is made of sturdy red brick and has seen better days. It has several large trees sitting on the overgrown lawn. Who lives here? The tire swing swayed in
The writing prompt for this week was to write about an alien planet. This could be a real planet, a fictional planet, or one based off planets in media. Whatever we wanted. This started out as a Firefly reference and turned into something that kind of Avatar-ish with some To Sleep in a Sea of
The prompt for this week was doorways. There are many types of doorways. I choose to interpret a book cover as one such doorway in the below poem. Let me know what abstract ways you think about doorways. Happy reading. So many doors, so many pathsSo many possibilitiesHow to select a single oneA single door
The prompt for this week was write about a plague, a real one, a fictional one, not only COVID. I selected the dancing plague of 1518. The actual cause of this plague is unknown. There are theories that it was caused by a fungus or mass hysteria. I made the cause the Sidhe, the fair
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
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.
For this prompt we all selected either one or three Tarot cards. If we just drew one, we made a character from that card; if we selected three, then they were past, present, and future. I opted to select just one card. The card I pulled was Reverse Death, this is meant to symbolize resistance
Today’s prompt: dinosaurs Okay, that’s a little too broad. In reality we were each given a time period from the prehistoric past of earth and wrote a story. I like how my story turned out but oh my goodness, there were some excellent and wonderfully ridiculous stories from this prompt. Journal Entry – Ship Log
McGee Travel Tales 