Today's writing prompt at Mindlovemisery's Menagerie is Make a Wish. So, I was walking along the same old dirt road I walked every day to wait for the school bus, thinking about how much I hated school. It was stupid. I wasn't good at it, nor was I interested in any of the subjects. [...]
It's time for the Sunday Whirl. The writing prompts for Wordle #448 are below. "Aw, c'mon baby," Collin whined. "Lemme hug your face." "My face is a restricted area, dimwit, and so is the rest of me," Lauralie explained. "Keep your distance." "What are you talking about?" "Don't you watch the news, or read the [...]
It's the Lucky Dip Saturday Mix over at MindLoveMisery's Menagerie. Today we are to write a Somonka: The somonka is a Japanese form. In fact, it’s basically two tankas written as two love letters to each other (one tanka per love letter). This form usually demands two authors, but it is possible to have a poet take [...]
When the bartender was finished, Jimmy's Buffalo Trace Old Fashioned was as muddled as his mind.
This week at Friday Fictioneers, Rochelle has chosen the above image © J Hardy Carroll, as our 100-word writing prompt. The popular kids hung out at Rockin' Roger's: football players, cheerleaders — all the pretty people. Rhonda was none of the above and didn’t frequent Rockin' Roger's. Even if she were one of the popular [...]
It's Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This time our host is Laura Bloomsbury who has tasked us with this: Write your poem as a rhyming tercet of 3 line stanzas though a composite 9 liner or more would do just as well – Strict meter is not a requirement but for an [...]
For the dVerse Prosery prompt, we write prose that includes a line from a poem. This line is given in the prompt—you do not choose it. Our Prosery piece must not exceed 144 words. I don’t know why I was surprised every time love started or ended. I use the same MO every time; they [...]
