writing prompts
May 1, 2009
- For a writer, sometimes getting started represents the hardest part of the writing process. Getting that first word or sentence out onto the paper or screen can feel like trying to give birth to a breach baby.For me, it’s the lead to an article or the first paragraph or two of an essay or of a chapter that feels the most difficult. Once I’ve got that part written, the rest of the piece simply ...
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April 15, 2009
- Every morning, I sit right here at my desk, looking out the window, wondering what to write about. Of course, the fact that I am trying to figure out my subject and the fact that I am blogging every day is worth a blog in and of itself, though likely not a very interesting one. In any case, here I sit, looking out the window into the early morning light, and I think: oak tree.Why? ...
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February 16, 2009
- Using prompts can be extremely fun and quite useful especially if your spending more time than you care to, staring at a blank screen and less time pounding away at the keyboard trying to make it a part of the desk. Their useful in such a way where they take some of the hardwork out of trying to form that first sentence or if its images can stimulate your brain into forming idea's that can lead ...
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January 8, 2009
- Well.I'm reallyreallyreally tired but just in case anybody's looking forward to Thursday prompts - here it goes.The Ultimate Illusion. For me, it's the "ego", the ultimate illusion that when I'm using the word "I", it actually means something instead of being a placeholder for initial emptiness. I more or less believe in physical world and genes and stuff, but I do not believe ...
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January 1, 2009
- It's January 1st, and I'm not gonna give you some trick question that requires to re-read "The Golden Bough" to answer (thank you Wen Scott for doing the prompts!). Instead, I'll just make you feel awful about all the good New Year's resolutions you are making right now.So Thursday prompt is "I Paved The Road To Hell", and, well, if you can't remember any occasion when you ...
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December 25, 2008
- These days have been frenzied. Yesterday, I yelled at my husband for not putting Christmas lights on "right" and at my Granny for cutting off the spare bulbs, and then at my husband again (just for the sake of it) and at my Granny for (whatever that was? oh, well, I guess the "right" decorations) and then at everybody for not sympathizing with me. And then at my kids for ...
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December 18, 2008
- Thursday is the best day in the week for me; it's not the beginning of the week when I am frantic and confused and often sleepy; it's not the end of the week when I'm tired and trying to catch up and write, go to library, go shopping if I absolutely must, keep up with kids and love - do all the things I didn't have the chance to do during the week.Thursday is blissful. I have adjusted to working, ...
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