https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/Ideas to get the old creative juices flowing. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/491112Yesterday I held a writing workshop for students at my house. We talked about using concrete objects as central metaphors, or as launching points, for poetry. I read aloud a long poem with an extended metaphor, in which the word tongue appeared in every stanza. Then the fun began. I pulled out a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/485524Many people have trouble writing realistically for the opposite gender. Imagine you are a man or a woman, girl or a guy, and describe the thoughts and/or actions of this person. Your character can be playing a sport, talking on a cell phone, trying on clothes in their room, flipping through...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/481173I found this picture so funny, I couldn't resist adding a caption:https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/450213Sarah working at home all day on a freelance project, seeing no one, reading articles meant for smart people and listening to lots and lots of music makes for sheer madness:https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/448488white girls to flash gang signs while partying. Let's hear it for "White Chicks and Gang Signs." You know you've flashed them. Don't even perpetrate! Check out my new favorite song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTDRqQtPO8https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/444642on the web doesn't constitute actual sweaty, click-earning blog-work. But this one is so funny, I can't resist.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/442207"That outfit is so be-numbing on you!"https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/441766If you plan on giving me a lifetime of devotion, I second that emoticon.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/441278When I first learned there was a kind of lettuce called radicchio, a little more than a decade ago, I was delighted by the word. It struck my non-Italian-speaking ear as sounding like the Italian word for ridiculous. Long a lover of the ridiculous, of absurdist what-if scenarios and the invention...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/stbond8313/435892