Stream of Consciousness
Talking Hearts
Author's Note: I am getting bored with these, so maybe I can spice them up for myself. I have always finished a card prompt box, so this would be the first if we don't finish it. Or maybe we can just take a break. They do seem to torture my husband, so maybe it is worth it. I haven't learned anything new yet though, and I don't think he has either. Maybe today.
By Denise E Lindquist17 days ago in Writers
Le Guin Apprenticeship Journal IV
Nothing could have prepared me for this week. Nothing! It's not so much that I thought Verbal Repetition would be easy (though, of course, I did: who doesn't repeat themselves); it's just that I didn't realise my brain would unconsciously challenge itself to pack all the lessons of the last four weeks into this exercise alongside the repetition. Apparently now my subconscious is treating this project as a journey of compounding perfection, where each piece MUST be better than the last. What the punishment will be for failure, I dread to think... probably writer's block.
By Lauren Everdell18 days ago in Writers
That First Job
Who remembers going out trying to get their first job? Actually, if I remember my first ever job and I do not think it really counts, but it was when I was 11 going on 12 when I would help my dad care for several yards for I my job was to trim the sidewalks and weed the gardens and, in the Fall, raking the leaves and there were a lot of leaves for the owners of the yards. Anyway, I took over cutting those yards the next year and continued doing those for the, I believe, almost 20 years or so. Like I said really do not think that really qualifies as a first job.
By Mark Graham19 days ago in Writers
It's all in the mind?
Just wondering why, it seems that Labor Day seems to come quicker and quicker every year it seems. It is a day to honor the workingman but why are there still others that work on Labor Day like nurses, the military, and others too. The picnics from the staples from hamburgers and hot dogs to maybe some that do brisket or sausage somehow along with potato or macaroni salad and usually the same desserts from various pies, cakes and brownies. It always seems to be the same from year to year that it makes like a normal day working hard.
By Mark Graham20 days ago in Writers
Who Is Grateful?
Steal From Yourself Challenge: The Prompt - Return to something you wrote years ago and use one idea, image, character, or line from it to create something entirely new. It's time to dig through your old writing and steal something. Find a story you abandoned, a poem you haven't read in years, a half-finished draft, or something your younger self was very proud of. Somewhere in there is a line, character, image, idea, or tiny detail worth taking. For this challenge, take that one thing and give it another life. Drop an old character into a completely different story. Turn a forgotten line into a poem. Take the best idea from your worst draft and finally do something with it. Don't rewrite the old piece. Rob it. Then use what you stole to make something entirely new.
By Denise E Lindquist20 days ago in Writers
Can't remember
As the title says, 'Can't remember.' I know there is something similar to what I am going to be doing, but not sure what. In the very near future, I am planning to write summaries/reviews of stories from old basal readers. I have found and bought several basal reading series from the Betts-Welsh to the New Basic Readers, the Ginn reading series and the Houghton Mifflin Series which is the ones I had in elementary school. I was leaping through some of these reading books and the stories are really pretty good even just for fun, and that's when I thought about sharing summaries/reviews of these stories. I do remember sharing a review or just two from a high school literature book I had and I may continue to read and summarize/review more of those stories. Please let me know what you think.
By Mark Graham21 days ago in Writers
