Today? This is your creative writing prompt mission: If you could live within any book for a week, which one would it be? 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…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesdays
PROMPTuesday #145: Tried and True
Honestly? For the last few months or so, I’ve given much thought to retiring PROMPTuesday. There’s so many outstanding prompt websites out there, many which I visit regularly, that do it RIGHT. Stuff like full-on websites devoted to the prompting, Twitter parties, newsletters even. AND with all the prompt excellence, I don’t want to be…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #144: Return to the Classics
Boy. First of all, I’m LATE. I know. It’s Wednesday. Secondly, I haven’t updated much lately. I’ve been other places, but still. I miss my space here. Thirdly, I am once again re-running a “Greatest Hits” prompt. This one originally came from May, 2009. But I love it, I really do, and I plan to…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #143: Which is Really #17
I sit here with a high-fevered little girl and to-do list stuffed to the gills…so I am re-running a PROMPTuesday from many moons ago. I hope you find it enjoyous. Today’s PROMPTuesday is lifted from Naomi Epel’s The Observation Deck, and is: Show, don’t tell! — a cardinal rule of writing —…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #142: To Forgive is Divine
I tell myself you bleed like I do. I say that a lot. Over and over like a totem; a psalm to ground me. Same color blood. Same color blood. Same color blood. You hurt. You defend. You love. You need. You live in the same world. Same world. Same color blood. Same. Same. Same.…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #141: Electric Life
I’m sure you’re all familiar with The Secret, right? Manifest your destiny? Make your dreams real? Wish for a cup of coffee and it appears? That kind of thing. And you’re probably all over the Vision Boards, too. You know, cut out magazine pictures of how you want your life to look, paste them on…Continue Reading
I Am…
{{My PROMPTuesday submission…}} I am angel heart and devil fire Seeing eyes and burning soul I am trapeze and open hands I am mother and motherless I am gravel and soil Pasture and sheep I am traveler I am home
PROMPTuesday #140: Where I Am
This PROMPT is based on one I wrote in 2008. As I said then: “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,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #139: Remember Me Well
It was Spring 2006 and I was eight months pregnant with Booger. I’d signed up for a weekly discussion group through my church and showed up for the first meeting a little nervous and a lot unsure. I knew I wanted to connect with people in my community, and church seemed a good a place…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #138: In a Flash
Way back in April 2008, I introduced PROMPTuesday. Looking back, I see that I never ever not ever issued the prompt included in that introduction. So now I am: It’s a doozy. You ready? Write some flash fiction (write for three minutes, then stop.) These are your prompts: “Egg” and “Horror genre.”…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #136: Done
For today, something simple. Maybe. Probably not. Either way, please consider the prompt: What have you always wanted to do, but haven’t done yet? 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…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #135: Your Someone’s Playlist
Dear Mom: Do you remember when you and I were driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1996? And I told you that if dad died, I would play Power of Two at his funeral? And you nodded when I told you the lyrics, but also felt a little sad — I could…Continue Reading
