Dearest Readers and Writers, welcome to Creative Writing 1.2020. Sounds like the title of a college personal enrichment course. For this post, I am linking up with Dee at Grammy’s Grid for her first Short Story Prompt of the new year. As Dee explains, “this is a creative writing exercise for fun and without […]
Detente: Short Story Prompt, 11.2019
Dearest writers and readers, Joining Dee at Grammy’s Grid for another short story prompt link party with my story entitled “Detente.” Unlike previous prompts, the prompt for November was this photograph below. Upon seeing the image, I had a dozen story ideas dancing around in my head but settled on this piece of almost fiction. These […]
De Ja Vu Over Again: Short Story Prompt, 10.2019
Dearest Writers and Readers, Joining Dee at Grammy’s Grid for another short story prompt link party. This is the sixth time I have participated, de ja vu over again. You can read my last story here, if you like. These opportunities for creative writing are so enjoyable to me, partially because I don’t tend to overthink […]
Red Letter Day: Short Story Prompt, 09.2019
Sweet Readers and Writers, Joining the fun of another of Dee’s short story prompt link parties on her blog, Grammy’s Grid. When I first read the prompt: Just as she thought nothing else could go wrong, the doorbell… I imagined the Publisher’s Clearing House gang being on the other side of the door. But […]
Dream Home: Short Story Prompt 07.2019
Sweet Readers and Writers, Joining in for the fun of Dee’s eighth short story prompt link party on her blog, Grammy’s Grid. The idea for this story came from a photograph I took of an old barn in North Dakota while visiting a former long-distance boyfriend in another lifetime. The barn in the photo […]
Promised Land: Short Story Prompt, 06.2019
Sweet Readers and Writers, Joining in for the fun of Grammy Dee’s sixth short story prompt link party. One of the reasons I began blogging and continue to blog, is to prompt me to write. And originally, I thought I would share library lesson plans and books I’ve read, too. The lesson plan idea went […]