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Flesh out your characters. Prompt #131
Read more: Flesh out your characters. Prompt #131You can use this prompt for fleshing out your fictional characters or for characters in your memoir. In works of fiction, we think of characters. When writing memoir, we think real people. But, when you write about real people, they become characters in a story. With this prompt, you can create character profiles for the…
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Caught Up . . . Prompt 788
Read more: Caught Up . . . Prompt 788Are you, or is your fictional character, caught up? Caught up with current slang Caught up with current events Caught up with something that takes too much of your energy or time Caught up with TV shows you want to watch. Caught up with correspondence: letters, emails, texts, phone calls, messages Caught up with things…
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Wheels . . . Prompt #785
Read more: Wheels . . . Prompt #785Write about learning how to . . . Ride a bicycle or a unicycle Ride a skateboard Roller skate Drive a car Who helped you? Or, did you figure it out yourself? How old were you? Where did these wheels take you? #justwrite #iamawriter #iamwriting
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The Big Windows Review
Read more: The Big Windows ReviewThe Big Windows Review is the literary magazine of the Writing Center at Washtenaw Community College (WCC), in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “We post a new poem or piece of short prose on the site every Tuesday and Friday. Then, four times a year, we’ll bundle up those poems and prose pieces to make a free digital issue of The Big…
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Beyond Words: A Different Literary Magazine
Read more: Beyond Words: A Different Literary MagazineBeyond Words Magazine features literary works with beautiful visual art from creatives around the globe. “We offer a warm and welcoming stage for emerging writers and visual artists. We encourage diverse voices from different cultures and backgrounds. Share your works with us!” Beyond Words accepts submissions of short stories (up to 1000 words), poems and visual…
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Why Follow Submission Guidelines?
Read more: Why Follow Submission Guidelines?Guest Blogger Tish Davidson writes: Don’t Sabotage Your Submissions What is the first thing you do when you cook a new recipe? Read the directions to determine if you have the necessary ingredients. What is the first thing you do when you assemble a piece of Ikea furniture? Read the directions. So why do so…
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It’s All Grist for the Mill: Weathering the Ups and Downs of the Creative Life
Read more: It’s All Grist for the Mill: Weathering the Ups and Downs of the Creative LifePhoto Credit: Erin VonRuden Guest Blogger Mary Kole writes about the creative journey: As much as I wish this wasn’t the case, the creative life is full of ebbs and flows, highs and lows, and any other image you want to ascribe to the push and pull of the artistic temperament. Whether you admit or…
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Childhood memories . . . Prompt #682
Read more: Childhood memories . . . Prompt #682What did your family do for fun? What games did you play? Did you go on vacations? What fragments of your past, or what memories stay with you, even though they seem insignificant? #justwrite #iamwriting #iamawriter
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What if we could change the past? . . . Prompt #671
Read more: What if we could change the past? . . . Prompt #671What if we could change the past? According to Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox, in “Your Mythic Journey,” we can change the past simply by retelling it differently than we usually do. “The past is open to revision because memory is a function of present intention. You can turn your story over (and over) and…
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Poem from character sketch . . . Prompt #628
Read more: Poem from character sketch . . . Prompt #628Prompt #1 Think about someone important in your life. Someone who made an impact on you. Write a list or a few paragraphs of events in this person’s life. It could be milestones or simple everyday things. Prompt #2 Turn what you just wrote into a poem with these suggestions: Make this a numbered poem.…