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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Prompt: Get thee to a punnery...

It doesn't take much prompting or certain friends of mine, and me to be off on an adventure of puns, cascading one to the next. Last night, it began with my Lord of the Ring fan friend and me, and Charlie. It began with an image in the Great Eye of the Mind of a hideous little goblin with green... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Prompts: out of Blogit

Many's the blog here that has inspired comments and blogs of my own, and sometimes one comes along that draws poetry out of those shadow corners of my poetic 'right brain.' The prompt and challenge here is to find inspiration for a poem or a blog from some one of our fellow blogiteers. Post it here... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 21, 2014

The heck with deadlines...

The title is OVER THE SEA, the theme is-- the unexpected. Word count should be between 300-500 words. Let's have some more stories! Fantasy, biography, adventure, historical romance... What's in your wallet? Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

prompts: The Challenge!

I wrote mine, and posted it in the comments of the previous post, despite the weirdness of Blogit the past several days. I hope you'll give it a look and add your own! Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Taking a page from the London Storytelling Challenge

I decided to look up some of the other entries to that contest Charlie entered. If you're interested, here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2014+Sci+Fi+London+48+Hour+storytelling+challenge Everyone registered by last Saturday received on Saturday, a title, a line, and a theme. They had... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Character creation and writing

I am reading a book right now, THE TOUCH by Colleen McCullough, and feeling a little disappointed. She is telling the history of her second character... first I realized that the book was going to be about both the main players was when Part Two began. She has to do this, all this telling, this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

More about writing and reading dreams

The thing with dreams in stories is that they are a device for conveying information, clues, and character. Poetry--which also tends to interrupt the narrative--serves more as an enhancement to the story, adding color and an aesthetic touch of humor or some background. Dreams, on the other hand, are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Writers Workshop: How do you write a dream?

Writing fiction, long or short, sometimes there is a dream sequence that needs to stand out as a dream, as not the same as the 'real world' of your story. I use italics and a lot of ellipses rather than periods to convey the way a dream drifts from one element to another. How do you write a dream? Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

prompt: Muses

Sometimes an article on Blogit will get me going, and a comment will expand until it's in danger of hijacking the original post. That's when I cut it out, and leave a simpler, more concise comment, and then hie off to my own blogspace to paste and add a few more thoughts. Sometimes, an article or an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

What says Spring?

For me, the first crocuses and the golden forsythia blooming tells me it is springtime in the yard. In the woods, it is the bright green of emerging skunk cabbage... and little white and yellow and purple wild violets. There is the mist of green in the woods, too, that will expand to the sea of... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Kitchen is always a place of warmth--sometimes too warm--and gratifications, of indulgences, clever solutions, and occasional disasters. It is a place of recipes and experimentation. This blog is going to be hanging out in the kitchen for a while.

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