Five Writing Prompts for April 29

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1. “Just send me the names and I’ll take it from there.”

2. “Uh, forgiveness is a two-way street.”

3. “What do you mean, what I did?”

4. “We’re not out of the woods yet.”
“That’s what I was afraid of.”

5. “Okay, here’s the deal. When you say the words, ‘banana split’, I’ll know you’re in trouble.”
“Food? Does it really have to do with food?”

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Five Writing Prompts for April 27

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1. “I found out who your father is…”

2. Dirty looks was her specialty…

3. “Just make up with your mother and all will be fine.”

4. There is no earthly way she should have known that…

5. “How’s he doing?”     
“How do you think after what you said to him?”

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Four Writing Prompts for April 15

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  1. It was time to put up or shut up. I was leaning toward ‘shut up’.

  2. Performing in front of no one…my life’s dream.

  3. Even on a good day, I didn’t want him within six feet of me…

  4. The editor, slack-jawed, gazed out the window. “You’re telling me your tweets are your chapters?”

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Wisdom for Writers from Beaver Cleaver



When revision and editing process breaks down.
Beaver: “Sometimes things get so messed up, crying is the only thing you can do.”  

Romance writers take note:
Beaver: “Yeah, but there was too much kissin’ and not enough apes.”

On dealing with editors:
Beaver: “Do you like me a whole lot?”
Wally: “Look, don’t get sloppy on me. I might just slug you one.”

On complete transparency:
Wally: “Beaver — you got crumbs in the butter again. Boy, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s crumbs in the butter.”
Beaver: “Sorry Wally. That must have happened when it fell on the floor.”

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Stuck on a writing project?

Here is one possible solution:

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a24040-dailycartoonjpg

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Oh, sure, you might actually be serious about writing. In that case, here are a few ideas:

  • The tangential method
  • The switching gears method
  • The backstory method
  • The undoing method

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I generally resort to turning on the oven. Matter of fact, I’m overdue for another version of my olive oil dough tear-and-shares.

My process:

  • pre-seasoned the dough [oregano, basil, granulated garlic],
  • rolled it out
  • spread out generous portions of grated cheddar cheese, caramelized onions, and sausage
  • rolled it back up
  • cut out portions
  • dipped them in beaten egg
  • placed them in the pan
  • poured the rest of the beaten egg over the portions
  • gave them another 20 minutes of rising time [not sure if I should have let them rise first and then poured the egg. Shrug.]
  • baked them at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes

For lots more tear-and-share ideas:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/tear-share

An eye-for-details activity

Image by Marielou Lolilop from Pixabay 

I’m working on a mini-course, so I’ll be posting some of the activities here.

The activities are intended for a range of writers, though seasoned veterans may not be interested. Again, I’ll be using this site to park some of my works.

Here is the short, non-narrated activity.

Keeping daily expectations manageable

  • Walked dog. [Imperative in his world. By 7:30 AM, reaches state of ‘Urgent!’.]
  • Baked biscuits. [Imperative in my world.] Here’s the recipe.
  • Opened package containing aloe vera to complete my sanitizer ingredient list. Confession: Needed to review my Amazon orders to remind myself what was in the box.
  • Dodged 94.1% of the daily newspaper to read the comics.
  • Rendered my 3.2 readers comatose with above list.