Tag: freewrite
member name: Lynn, whose writing motto is Tabula rasa - Caveat lector
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December 08, 2009 06:26 PM EST --
I just listened to Bob Dylan's Christmas album. (I know, they don't call them "albums" anymore, but I'm old and set in my ways.) Yes! Bob Dylan has a Christmas album! If that makes you laugh, then . . .
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September 02, 2009 03:09 PM EDT --
My day off. I can do whatever I want to. I want to do too much – not housework, of course. I want to get back to writing my book. I also want to fix up my jade into a bonsai, but it's too small. . . .
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October 16, 2009 04:05 AM EDT --
Kinda hard coming up with a story when you don't quite get a couple of the prompts – ok, don't get one prompt, but also want to try something else Susan wrote about in her column – pitch. . . .
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August 26, 2009 01:04 PM EDT --
Oh, man! I so want to write this novel. It may be the most important thing I've ever done in my life. And, I've started, however, even in the starting; I know I simply don't know enough to do it well, . . .
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September 21, 2009 05:37 PM EDT --
I went to college to become a high school English teacher. I love reading and writing and wanted to teach teens the joy.
A "little" problem developed. I do not know the difference between a . . .
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October 14, 2009 07:47 PM EDT --
Hasn't been a good day. I think anyone, who reads my freewrites, knows I've been going through insomnia. Stopped being varying "bouts" to full-fledged, consistent insomnia for the last few weeks. Months? . . .
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September 03, 2009 05:14 PM EDT --
Freewrite – Sept. 3, 2009
Why write about stuff you do not care about? Why write about Mary being raped by God, when people tell that's not what happened, and you do not listen? Why write . . .
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September 13, 2009 03:31 PM EDT --
I want to think – think deep thoughts. Feels like my head is full of cotton. Can cotton think? Wish it could – would help greatly today.
Already can't think like I used to do. Insomnia . . .
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October 22, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
I was raised in a "eat whatever is on your plate" kind of family. It wasn't until I was older that I discovered "whatever is on your plate" was different from the vast majority of other people. I . . .
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September 01, 2009 08:16 AM EDT --
Another attempt at a Freewrite
Why are those flowers dying already? I just picked them two days ago. They lasted over a week before. Oh well, at least, I've had a small bouquet of flowers all . . .
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September 17, 2009 07:26 AM EDT --
Thanks to Len for teaching me to do this to figure out a storyline, and, ummmm, Susan for being "mean" enough to give such hard prompts this week that I have to do all this "thin'in!" lol
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October 09, 2009 06:06 PM EDT --
Friday Writing Essential—Rainy Days— October 9th, 2009
For today’s writing prompt, make a list of 10 things you like to do when it rains. Take one item from that list . . .
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September 19, 2009 04:34 PM EDT --
Two people, two baskets of cherry tomatoes, more coming in, although slower now. A fun dilemma.
Considering "tomato pie." No, not pizza pie without cheese, "tomato pie." A sweet dessert . . .
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September 26, 2009 08:20 AM EDT --
The Prompt from Friday Writing Essential : M&M Candies "Melt in your mouth, not in your hands." Miller Lite "Tastes great, less filling." Describe yourself (or your writing) in ten words or . . .
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October 05, 2009 07:14 AM EDT --
Not a good weekend, despite the goodness in the weekend. My oldest brother called. Apparently, his ex got remarried (good for her – she deserved so much more), but doesn't have room for the old . . .
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October 07, 2009 05:37 PM EDT --
Wednesaday Writing Essential Prompt:
refer to a secret, but keep it secret
use a famous quote and identify it as such
use a word that denotes color, but use it as a verb or noun, . . .
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September 08, 2009 03:42 PM EDT --
Learbed a bew idea a week or two ago – called "freewrite." As I learned it, it seems we just babble away and type it out for 5 minutes. Babble, I can do!
BUT, the purpose, according to . . .
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September 22, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
No ideas.
Ideal Toys.
Boy Toy.
Brad Pitt.
Pittsburgh .
Philadelphia .
Eagles.
Lost.
Accident.
Toilet paper.
Writing . . .
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October 02, 2009 02:41 PM EDT --
This is to Len's (the bad boy) prompt:
The guidelines are: • Include the start and stop times of your freewrite. • Do NOT edit and/or revise. • You do not have to actually write . . .
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October 18, 2009 06:43 PM EDT --
I have told about the death of my mother elsewhere, but this story is about the year afterwards, and not depressing.
My little brother and I moved back with Dad, directly from Mom's funeral in . . .
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