Hiya folks. No PROMPTuesday this week. But we’ll both be back. Here’s a storytelly PROMPT from days of yore, if you want to check it out. See you soon. UPDATED: Here’s the story (from 9/08’s prompt). I feel bad for abandoning PROMPTuesday today and want to give you something. He’d fallen…Continue Reading
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PROMPTuesday #109: What’s in the Basement?
You’re right. This story needs a good fictional ending. So please read it again and then tell me: What’s in the basement? Write the ending. Please post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments. First time to PROMPTuesday?…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #107: Not Flying in the V Formation
Plain and simple, here’s this week’s PROMPTuesday creative writing prompt: When is the first (or last) time you felt like a square peg in a round hole? Post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments. First time to PROMPTuesday?…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #106: Turning Point, A Fork Stuck in the Road
You know how you look back on your life and recognize certain moments that changed things forever? How you could have gone this way or that way, but you choose the way over there, and you’re a different person because of it? For me, that moment was when I moved from Chicago to Los…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #105: On Repeat
I don’t know why, I really, really don’t: But the lines I’m going to share below have repeated in my head lately. I first published this sometime in 2008 (PROMPTuesday #13 to be exact) and I want to provide the story starter again. I feel like it’s singing a siren song. You get that,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday 101: Slumber Story
Today’s creative writing prompt is pretty cool, if I do blog so myself. Check it: Do you have a vivid or regularly repeating dream that stays in your mind long after you’re awake? Take some elements from this dream (or parts of a bunch of different dreams you remember) and write a story.…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #100: WOW
I admit it. I’ve given brief pause to retiring PROMPTuesday from my blog. What once used to be a joy and a challenge, has now turned into something “I must do” and that concerns me. But after careful reflection, I decided to be a tough old broad who hangs on until the last breath. You…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #98: Lyrical
Today? Please write a poem. Free form. Except…I do require one word be included: Halcyon. Do it for me? Please post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments. First time to PROMPTuesday? Read a bit about it here. Want…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #96: Where You At
I am a girl from Chicago I shiver whenever the wind blows It reminds me of when The snow didn’t end And snot flowed freer than fro-yo ************************** I live in a town with moms Sometimes it reminds me of prom Who goes with whom and what’s with the boobs Jewelry parties go…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #92: 1,000 Words
The Rock helped me out with this one. Tired and spent last night, I couldn’t put a PROMPT together for nothing. So my husband got on Ffffound and procured several images to inspire my thinking. I am including most of the pictures here. This week, I’d like if you were to pick one and write…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #90: How-To
Today? Teach us something. How do you flirt? Make a smoothie? Achieve balance in your life? Step-by-step instructions please. Thank you. Please post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments. First time to PROMPTuesday? Read a bit about…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #89: The Basics
Let’s return to bare bones this week, what do you say? I was given this exercise in a college writing class, and I clearly remember observing an older man who was eating alone. During my 15-minute study, I absorbed his every move and translated it to my writing. The way he carried the tray…Continue Reading
