(Painting by Rebecca) This PROMPTuesday, make up a story inspired by the picture above. Include the link to your story/post in the comments or feel free to leave your submission here, also in the comments section. I’ll be back to submit my take on it tomorrow, but… meanwhile…to bone up on PROMPTuesdays,…Continue Reading
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PROMPTuesday #29: I Was There
History’s being made, can you feel it? The bubbles in the atmosphere? The sense that when they pop, the air around them will change? Or else the they’ll float into space, bouncing like sound waves, carrying the news of today into tomorrow? So where were you when history was laid down? Was the TV…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #28: Where I’m From
I think this started as a meme. I’ve read several outstanding versions of it over the last year, and I thought I’d like to offer it as a PROMPTuesday, so… I am. This week, tell us who you are, what’s inside, where you’re from. Share your memory fragments, those visions in your head,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #27: Trippin’
For today’s PROMPTuesday, I ask that you write about a trip or an excursion that left you changed in some way. Did you conquer a fear on your trip? Learn something about yourself? Learn something about another person? Break up? Get together? Consider hospital time for the largest walking blister this side of Manhattan?…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #26: And We Shall Prevail
In light of my upcoming trip this Wednesday, today’s PROMPT is short and sweet (and selfish). Can you tell me a story of a fear you’ve overcome? Fiction is of course, welcome. As are poems. Or one-liners. In fact, anything goes. Anything. Go! (And thank you.)
PROMPTuesday #25: The Wine’s Drunk, But the Memories Remain
Would you guys bear with me for a few more weeks? I’m sucking, I know. It’s just that I’ve been so busy. (And you know, panicked.) Annnnyyywayyy. Here’s the thing. My mom used to collect wine corks from dinners or parties with friends, which she’d ask everyone at the dinner or party to…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #24: The One-Liner
Excellent writer and super cool blogger, Tap Dancing on the Edge of Reason, provided me with her son’s writing prompt, which I think will work just fine for this PROMPTuesday. Just fine indeed. It is: “You are in a corn field, with your dog, when all of a sudden, a plastic…” Imagine…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #23: TV Pilot
I saw a pretty funny movie on Showtime this weekend. TV Set. Have you seen it? It’s not the best thing since a burn-free face, but it IS a delightful, fluffy romp. It’s about a writer whose TV pilot script is “revamped” and “restructured” by television producers who don’t know what they’re doing. In short,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #22: Writing Poetry
Today, write a poem including the following lines in any order: “I tie a ribbon in a foolish way” “The delicious fragility of this travesty” “Where we still laugh and wish” (Prompt courtesy of CreativeWritingPrompts) Go for it! And really, you’re all so good, I don’t want to hear any about…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #21: Tell Us A Story
He’d fallen asleep at the wheel. Must’ve been just a second or two, because his truck never strayed from its straight course. Then again, since he crossed into Wyoming’s Great Plains, he’d been going straight. He shrugged his shoulders, squinted at the road, and stuck his left ear out the window as far as it’d…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #20: Memory Description
Today marks back-to-school time, and when I was a kid, I loved this time of year. It’s why I adore autumn. All summer, I anticipated the week before school, when I’d hurry out to buy my school supplies, stick pennies in my loafers, and carefully cover my textbooks. But I was a geek. …Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #19: Random Simplicity.
Word: Egg. Genre: Romantic Comedy. What? Write a movie synopsis. Or a pitch? Maybe a snippet of dialogue. Perhaps a story. And include an egg(s). Go. The Rules: You must write your entry in 10 minutes. This encourages top-of-mind, primal thinking before the ego and judgmental brain kick in. Just set a timer, make…Continue Reading
