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Showing posts with label creative writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative writing. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Tropes: The Building Blocks of Storytelling

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Cortesy Pixabay.com Tropes are recurring themes, motifs, or clichés in literature and other forms of storytelling. They are often used to c...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

30 Day Writing Challenge: Spark Your Creativity

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This challenge offers a mix of prompts to target different writing styles and get your creative juices flowing.  Each day, pick one prompt, ...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

The Eyes Have It! Simon Bishop

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 For a long time, I've been writing a story called The Dream Stealer. The story became so complex that it threw me off, and taking part ...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

How It Goes

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The struggle is real. I managed to work a few hours this week on The Long Summer Run. It just hit me that I wanted ... no needed to write. I...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Busy Week of Progress - More to Do

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It has been a very busy week. I was not feeling well on Sunday, extremely fatigued, and lay around in the recliner all day. On Monday, I was...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

A Little Bitty Ditty for ALL My Dads

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 A long time ago, say around 1993, I had an actual webpage. Back then there wasn't Facebook, but you could easily learn HTML online and ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Planning a Trip

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 I settled for organizing an anthology of all the short writings and poetry I've done over the course of 50 years. Yeah. Fifty. They wer...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

365 Days to Write or Not

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It hasn't been a great writing year. I've written more than I expected to but not as much as I wanted to. I've been sick more an...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Through My Veins

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For three days now, I've been writing. Not new writing, but I've been editing and revising.  On Wednesday, I suddenly opened one of ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

One Day in the Park

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 On July 12, 2015, I posted a short story that I didn't finish.  Tonight, I wrote the ending. I am sharing it here in its entirety for t...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Twiddling My Thumbs

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This is one writer who is just all messed up. I tell myself I should just throw in my keyboard and give up. I write a bit here and a bit t...
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Thursday, September 19, 2019

The Horror of Writer's Block

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Pixabay.com They're there, somewhere in my head. I know  they're there! I hear them breathing, the short, rapid breaths of terro...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

Thoughts and Books

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Five days into the new year and I've done to too little writing. I got off to a rocky start this month. For weeks, severe back and leg p...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Battle of Wits

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Today I embraced my seniority. You mean you admitted you're old?   What? NO! OK. Yes, I did. I called SWIRCA to get information abou...
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Monday, May 28, 2018

Atmosphere Is Everything

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I have tinnitus as a result of some of my medications, so I'm a sap for background sounds when I'm reading, writing, cleaning, and e...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Box of Memories

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This past weekend I spent a day going through a file box of old writing. When I say old I mean pre-computer: before I owned a typewriter up ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2018

What I've Been Doing Lately

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I mentioned I've been working on some things. While "real" writing hasn't been happening, something else has but I can...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Things I'll Never Do & Why

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I see these Bucket List posted every once in awhile. They don't seem to be as popular as they were when the movie came out but they st...
Friday, March 16, 2018

You Want the Good News First or the Bad News?

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Let's start with the bad news. The past week has been long and painful but it ends with less pain and a lot of indigestion (GERD). Go fi...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Terror in my Mind

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Courtesy Pixabay.com It is raining but that's better than snow. It is still cold. I'm slightly better but I'm fighting fatig...