Tag: susan budigs prompts
member name: Lynn, whose writing motto is Tabula rasa - Caveat lector
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July 22, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
Lime green Jello
With coconut bits,
Little marshmallows,
And canned fruit cocktail.
Lynn sat at the empty table.
A party of one.
The summer heat
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July 08, 2009 12:57 PM EDT --
The couple walks slowly up the sidewalk, arm-in-arm, canes clicking in rhythm. They look over to watch young men dance with their orange ball under the basket on the blacktop. Cars whiz past them, and . . .
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August 19, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
Dinner was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a paper plate. The rest of the plates and utensils are piled high on the kitchen counter. No more paper plates. The clock ticks. It is time to do the . . .
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June 24, 2009 05:49 PM EDT --
WWE (Wednesday Writing Essentials) Prompt of the week:
Express in any format (poem, prose, photo, et al) a piece of work that includes:
a ruler
reference to justice . . .
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July 30, 2009 12:52 AM EDT --
I'm lifted from my shelf,
Away from my baseball,
Away from my mitt,
Away from my red and white pennant,
My life and my home.
I'm carried down my street,
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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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July 01, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
A prawn gill dislodges him
On a whim and a prayer .
Like a leaf, he floats.
Settling on the mountain,
He scurries down to find the cave.
Succulent, moist flesh.
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August 05, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
Mom was in the closed-off kitchen stirring a huge batch of fruity crabapple jelly, a midsummer tradition. The steam was as hot and humid as the sunny day outside. Dad just installed our second air-conditioner . . .
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August 13, 2009 05:02 PM EDT --
Wednesday's Writing Essential's prompts.
Prompts for August 12, 2009:
one of the characters should wear a ring and mention it or refer to it in description
include an animal
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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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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 11, 2009 11:08 AM EDT --
I asked for critique for this piece, and was rewarded with some helpful observations. This is the first revision. (Unknown, at this point, if more is needed. Let me know. And I will come back, even . . .
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October 04, 2009 02:43 PM EDT --
As told buy Phil T. Bear
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October 17, 2009 06:49 AM EDT --
It was a typical day for the ant colony. The queens were laying eggs, other ants were caring for them, others were making more room for the growing colony, and others were going out to collect food. . . .
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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 17, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
They call it "lucky things" that all gardens need. These things are lucky, because, if you have them in your garden pest problems are lowered, and plants live healthier lives. If you garden in the . . .
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June 17, 2009 05:48 PM EDT --
Wednesday's Writing Essentials prompt -
Using any form you like, write and publish a post including:
a foreign word or phrase
a time period in the distant past or future
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September 22, 2009 06:49 AM EDT --
Thanks to helpful critique, this is the final revision .
Johnny was accepted into Julliard at the young age of ten, so his parents move to New York for him. The word "prodigy" . . .
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September 16, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Humor
If you're anything like me, (and I'm hoping, for your own sanity, that you aren't), like stuffed animals, have a bunch in the room with you, and you know they talk, you have to be very . . .
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