I imagine that every person in the world at one point or another, says, “I should write a book.” Whether it be a how-to parenting guide, a memoir about your life in the circus, or a good old-fashioned murder mystery, we’ve all thought it, right? “I should write a book.” Or maybe you…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesdays
PROMPTuesday #55: Back to Basics, The PMS Edition
I think I’m re-using PROMPTuesday titles. And I suppose I could check, but I’d much rather put my energy into posting this kick-ass prompt sure to blow your shirt up (a mentalist device otherwise known as “trying to convince oneself”). Here it is, my pretty, pretty foxes (stands next to the curtain ready to…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #54: Stay Classic
I’ll just put it out there this week: What was your favorite toy as a child? Write a vignette about playing with it. (What did you feel? Who were you with? Where did you live?) Let’s hopelessly date ourselves with this one. What do ya say? Meanwhile, for any new readers,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #52: Craziest Travel Adventure
Have I done this one before? I’m way too tied up with my soy taquitos to check. Also, The Rock has raging infections in both eyes and I’m trying to nurse him back to health by sitting way over here at the kitchen table while berating him to wash his hands and not fling bacteria…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #51: Gonna be Startin’ Something
This week, I wanted to return to the first line prompt, because I’m feeling all fictiony and sublime and I have no idea what that means, so ignore me. Still here? Oh good! I love you people. Here’s PROMPTuesday #51: Please finish the story begun with these sentences: She lifted the…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #49: Pieces of Me
Hi-ho! Good to be here. Of course, my eyes water and the head swims from over-editing of businessy documents and such like, but I think I will survive with the creative salvation that is PROMPTuesday. So, this week, let’s look in our purses and billfolds, poppets. Pull something out. Tell a story about…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #48: L-O-V-E
UPDATED: If you left a link in the comments, consider leaving it here too, and participate in an online wedding proposal event! This is a special one. Someone I dearly like a lot is going to get engaged soon — she just doesn’t know it yet. To celebrate, this PROMPTuesday is all about love.…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #47: The Triumvirate
Hi, and things have been hard. I’m waiting for my universe to right itself again. Or rather, I’m working to right it again, but meanwhile, I’m popping in with a PROMPTuesday. Because gah, I’m sick of thinking about myself. This week’s writer’s helper comes from Toasted Cheese, a website for writers founded and…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #46: Humility
(Amazingly beautiful photo from Chad Pollpeter) I’ve got something to tell you…and will write it here tomorrow or soon after, but the gist is humility. So in honor of humbling myself today to (please God) be better, I’m adopting the theme for this week’s PROMPTuesday. Here it is: Write a story about when…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #45: You’re Published!
So I’ve revived my manuscript-in-progress, quite surprised to find I’m further along than I thought. Plus, I’ve corralled the journals, scraps, and napkins that link my plot like a cotton candy locomotive, and I’m incorporating the airy tufts, making them real. Best of all, I started to muse again. Gosh darn, I love this…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #44: Pastiche
So I’m putting PROMPTuesday up early this week. For two reasons. One: It’s pretty much done for me with the whole post tag team thing we’ve got going, and Two: I expect to be up all night busily searching boxes for old high school photos of me wearing pajamas to class (un-ironically and intentionally). …Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #42: Remember When?
Music — such lyrical salve. My cell nuclei thrums to beautiful, raw words set to pounding — or rolling — melody, and my white light positively beams at live shows, where I sit somewhere close to the amplifier, each piece of skin, bone, plasma, pulsing, exploding. I bear witness to a singer’s true face, soul…Continue Reading
