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Friday, June 20, 2014

Prompts

In the past two days, prompts have been inspired by Pat B and CC: 1--Write about your very first date. 2--Describe a house you find yourself in. Doesn't matter how you got there, just describe it as you go room to room. Sign in to see full entry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

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.

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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