Tag: gather writing essentials
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February 26, 2009 02:54 AM EST --
This piece was born a few hours ago as a mad rush of musings on what Life has gifted through the many sorrows it has thrown at me.
It is dedicated to a man with a spirit as towering and tough as his . . .
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February 21, 2009 08:27 AM EST --
My dear friends,
There's a certain quality of being I have inherited from my Mother. I call it expansion. It essentially means expanding your vision to see the whole world as an extension of you, . . .
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August 19, 2009 02:05 AM EDT --
Once tangled in nightmares
Haunted by grim reapers
A feathered woman gifted solace
to a deserted, yet deserving man.
Distraught, insecure, and lost,
he relished her embrace.
When she . . .
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October 28, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
Gather Writing Essentials. Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Use the following prompts:
Use a word that most readers would have to look up in the dictionary.
Reference a religious holiday . . .
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December 23, 2009 02:58 AM EST --
This week started off with an excellent GWE column by Greg Schiller . What I liked about it was that Greg reached out to another source to provide him with material for his column in the form . . .
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September 24, 2009 12:46 PM EDT --
Bundle of Boy!
Oh my little pum pum.
Easy going, sweet, happy just to be.
Truly, a life’s blessing for me.
Dragged here, dragged there. . . .
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November 17, 2009 12:41 PM EST --
I’d never seen Far look so worried. Money had always been tight, but the year I turned twelve, Far’s savings were gone and we went into debt to buy . . .
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November 12, 2009 11:01 PM EST --
Write a short poem or even just a stanza or a line about an apple; then write a snippet about how the apple implicated a murderer; then use the taste of apple to contrast the bitterness of a breakup . . .
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July 01, 2009 03:52 AM EDT --
Pearl Ocean swung her handbag over
t he cart’s handlebar, smacking
. . .
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August 14, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
I wrote this from a prompt I gave myself, including a time limit. It somewhat fits Nancy's prompt on Friday Writing Essentials. I made a couple edits today, for clarity. fyi, . . .
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October 24, 2009 03:02 PM EDT --
Your brutal attack began years ago. But here I am…still standing.
Sometimes you whisper to me, and fear invades my soul. You come in daylight or darkness. It doesn’t matter. Suddenly I . . .
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July 10, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
On the hammock, I sit
Counting stars.
As they blink childhood memories,
I regress to a time
When Daddy pushed me on the swings
High enough to catch the sun.
I recollect when Mommy revived . . .
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November 25, 2009 01:06 PM EST --
Gather Writing Essentials Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Use the following prompts:
Include major world conflict as a theme or mere mention or something in between
Something needs to pop . . .
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November 25, 2009 08:06 PM EST --
WWE, November 25th 2009
Prompts:
Pick a word and use it in as many positions/parts of speech as possible. That is, use the same word as a noun, adjective, verb, etc.
Include an epigraph . You . . .
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December 11, 2009 09:59 AM EST --
WWE, December 9th, 2009
Use the following prompts:
The story/poem/essay must occur at night
All characters must be male- no females allowed this time, except for the author
Use Petrarchan . . .
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August 13, 2009 10:22 PM EDT --
Ode to a slow co-worker.
She works as slow as a snail. Leaves unsatisfied customers in her trail. Her phone rings and rings, Disturbing flies and things.
The restroom breaks are many . . .
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October 01, 2009 11:36 PM EDT --
WWE
September 9, 2009 Prompts: Show the passage of time rather than a single moment in time Use the words: if you say so… Include a rhetorical question Include a name of a state
When it rains . . .
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June 24, 2009 02:52 AM EDT --
Last week Jim G . said, "I personally don't believe that writing, in any format, such as cinquains, should have "Rules" or "Guidelines" that must be followed... I don't need or want anyone telling . . .
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December 09, 2009 01:04 AM EST --
My youngest son turned ten this week. He told me the next day that his birthday was "a disappointment." He hadn't received "good enough" presents. "Close your eyes right now," I said, . . .
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July 10, 2009 09:39 PM EDT --
We were kids.
We jumped into the lake,
kicking, splashing, swimming.
I dove under
and came face-to-face
with a white fish corpse,
slowly rotting away.
I screamed . . .
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