June 30, 2014 Prompt #59 Today’s prompt follows up on yesterday’s Sunday Shape-Up which starred stars. Further Writing Use one of these phrases as your prompt: Gold Stars. Hollywood Star. Star struck. Starburst. Star of David. Star of Bethlehem. Star-crossed. Write in response to the painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Imagine you areContinue reading “Super Star”
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Sunday Shape Up: Star
June 29, 2014 Prompt #58 This week’s Sunday Shape-Up lets you shine like the star you are. Instructions For 10 minutes, jot down phrases, dialogue and images that come to mind when you hear the word star. Re-read what you’ve written and circle a phrase or sentence that stands out. Next, underline a phrase thatContinue reading “Sunday Shape Up: Star”
Genre Swap
June 28, 2014 Prompt #57 To wrap up revisions week, here’s a playful prompt. See if you discover anything about your writing (or yourself!) with this one. Instructions Choose a section of a story or essay you’ve written that is about a page long. Or choose a single piece of flash fiction or a shortContinue reading “Genre Swap”
Play It Backwards
June 27, 2014 Prompt #56 Today, more random play as we explore ways to re-vision, re-see, and re-imagine our work. This exercise comes from writer and translator T. Begley, from whom I took a writing workshop 20 years ago at The Naropa Institute (that’s what it was called back then). Instructions Choose a sectionContinue reading “Play It Backwards”
Thursday Thoughts: Trans-Genre
June 26, 2014 Prompt #55 Instead of a prompt today, I’m posing a few writer’s questions. Think about them yourself, ask other writing friends, or discuss your ideas here. Do you write in more than one genre — for instance poetry, fiction, and essays? If you write in more than one genre, do you considerContinue reading “Thursday Thoughts: Trans-Genre”
Double Double (Toil and Trouble?)
June 25, 2014 Prompt #54 Sometimes, a successful story is the result of careful planning, clear outlines, and a well-conceived structure. Other times, random play generates surprising results. For today’s prompt, we are going to play. Instructions Choose a section of a story or essay you’ve written that is about a page long. Or chooseContinue reading “Double Double (Toil and Trouble?)”
Fresh Perspectives
June 24, 2014 Prompt #53 It’s revisions week here at The Writeous Sisters, so pull out a rough draft. It’s time for a tune-up! For this prompt, we shift point-of-view. While you might not incorporate anything you write for this prompt directly into your work, examining point-of-view can give you valuable insights. Instructions Choose aContinue reading “Fresh Perspectives”
Expendable Adjectives
(One Day Late for) June 23, 2014 Prompt #52 For most of this week, we’ll be looking at revisions. So dig up some old writing and get ready to rethink, revise, and re-do. Today we’ll focus on adjectives and adverbs. Adjectives modify nouns. Adverbs modify verbs. They supply your readers with information about the nounContinue reading “Expendable Adjectives”
Sunday Shape Up: Oval
June 22, 2014 Prompt #51 For this week’s Sunday Shape-Up, we will carefully press a circle into an oval and give it a spin. Instructions Quick Tip: The word oval originates from the Latin ov or egg. Hence, oval means egg-shaped. For five minutes, jot down phrases and images that come to mind when youContinue reading “Sunday Shape Up: Oval”
Summer Solstice Ritual
June 21, 2014. Prompt #51 After dinner with friends tonight , I marked this longest day of the year with a walk to Wonderland Lake. There, redwings chattered, the foothills reflected themselves in the water, and two mallard chicks paddled behind with their mother. On the path home, I nearly bumped into a mule deer.Continue reading “Summer Solstice Ritual”
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