Have you ever had one of those weeks where you were so excited you were shaking inside? Tell me about it!   … [Read more...]

Here are seven new words to get those writing juices flowing for a paragraph-long story. You can still write a story using the words from the last couple of posts. Just go to past projects, click on the writing project you want to submit for and submit the story through the comment section below the instructions. Submit a story for as many as you would like!   The new words: Poster, egg, donkey, barrel, slither, jump, brown.     … [Read more...]

Here are seven new words to get those writing juices flowing for a paragraph-long story. You can still write a story using the words from the last couple of posts. Just go to past projects, click on the writing project you want to submit for and submit the story through the comment section below the instructions. Submit a story for as many as you would like!   The new words: Snow, spring, crocodile, orange, teal, fluid, inconsistence.     … [Read more...]

Let's try this again!! I will post seven more words today and let's see if you can come up with a paragraph-sized story using all seven words. You can still write a story using the words from the last project. Just go to past projects, click on the writing project you want to submit for and submit the story through the comment section below the instructions. Submit a story for as many as you would like! The seven words for today are: Fairy, yellow, green, flighty, toilet, leaf, amble.     … [Read more...]

With all the enthusiasm lost on the last writing exercise, I decided to go back to something simple and fun. I am starting with seven words to be included in a single-paragraph story. Please check it out and submit your paragraph stories through the comment box below. Here goes... The first seven words are: Ice, white, purple, mice, barrel, yogurt and malicious.   … [Read more...]

I have an interesting writing exercise for you. It is one I use to stimulate creative word use. Take an everyday happening and describe it in a third-person narrative. The length does not matter. It can be one sentence to 250 words. Have fun! I look forward to seeing your stories.   For example, the following is a writing exercise I did while in Malaysia:   Though she missed the opportunity to spend a few more minutes with her husband, keeping him company down the elevator ride from the 24th floor to ground level and following him through the hallway, up two short flights of stairs and through the large parking garage to the front of the complex where he catches his ride to Kulim, she chose to take a morning walk anyway. Usually, she sits on the stone chairs around the concrete table on the front patio, reading the free paper provided to the residents and talking with her husband until his driver arrives, and from there embarks on her morning adventure. This morning is different. It has taken longer for her to get cleaned up and dressed than she anticipated. Shortly after he leaves, armed with her camera, bus pass and a few ringgits she follows the … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 20 WORDS: Love, hope, present, yellow, Christmas, frost plug, brick. … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 15 WORDS: Green, rancid, airplane, concrete, slowly, create, solipsism. … [Read more...]