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Someone is sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper article about a recent string of crimes. The person knows who did it. Melissa Donovan, Adventures in Writing. '1200 Creative Writing Prompts'
The Climate Question Is science fiction holding back climate action? For centuries, we’ve been reading, watching and listening to science fiction. And all too often, it’s pretty pessimistic about our future, especially when it touches on the topic of climate change. This is leading some to ask whether these doom and gloom stories are doing... Continue Reading →
Birchesby Robert Frost When I see birches bend to left and rightAcross the lines of straighter darker trees,I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stayAs ice-storms do. Often you must have seen themLoaded with ice a sunny winter morningAfter a rain. They click upon themselvesAs the breeze... Continue Reading →
Write a piece that incorporates... Father... A Crown... Use the sentence "This is Delicious" based on a prompt found at The Story Shack Prompts Generator
Write a piece that uses the phrase, or sentence 'No Need.' Also, a great storm. From Writing Prompt Generator at The Story Shack
Here’s an Ocean Tale By Kwoya Fagin Maples My brother still bites his nails to the quick,but lately he’s been allowing them to grow.So much hurt is forgotten with the horizonas backdrop. It comes down to simple math. The beach belongs to none of us, regardlessof color, or money. We all come to sitat the... Continue Reading →
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges
There is a character in your story who has a brilliant mind. But circumstances often contribute to how we apply our talents in our lives. Denis Diderot said "Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them." What chances or choices might lead your character to... Continue Reading →
Love Letter Written In A Burning Buildingby Anne Sexton I am in a crate, the crate that was ours,full of white shirts and salad greens,the icebox knocking at our delectable knocks,and I wore movies in my eyes,and you wore eggs in your tunnel,and we played sheets, sheets, sheetsall day, even in the bathtub like lunatics.But... Continue Reading →
Saint Augustine said in his 'Confessions', (considered to be one of the earliest examples of autobiography) "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know." And one of the greatest 'novels' of all time, Marcel's Prousts... Continue Reading →