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There are some things that don't mix like chocolate and bacon, cough drops and iced tea (learned that the hard way last night) and, colds and elections. I learned that all day Tuesday.
You can write about scary things you've seen or done or had done to you. This can be fictional or real. Go for it. Use fiction, memoir, poetry, etc to write this week about rain.
I wrote the following for my weekly Writing Down the Bones exercise I lead at Newsvine here. You know that Garbage hit "I'm only happy when it rains"? Well, my version of the song would be much less, well, bouncy: I can only nap when it rains.
As I write this we have yet another rainy day in Texas thus prompting this, will, prompt. Use fiction, memoir, poetry, etc to write this week about rain.
Put simply, Horse Boy, the book and movie, are about a family who take their son, Rowan, aka Horse Boy, to Mongolia. Rowan is autistic and loves animals, especially horses, so why not take them to a horse-based culture? The book and movie follow them along their adventure.
So over here I posted my last writing exercise. To wit: The concept is simple - write a fictional story in which each paragraph begins with a new letter - the catch is it must begin with the subsequent letter in the alphabet.
Took the girls on Saturday to their first circus. A few anecdotes: They went to the pre-show (seeing up close clowns and dancers and acrobats and such) and then returned to our great seats then asked if it was time to go soon.
I wrote a memoir piece as a way to sum up some major life changes. Why don't you use this opportunity to do the same in whatever style - fiction, prose, memoir, poetry, etc - you prefer
I like the unorthodox - I mean who else would review Australia and Quantum and Solace together? - and this piece is a good example of what I'm talking about.
The rules here are pretty basic: I, or someone else, picks the topic. You write about it for 10 minutes and then must stop. The time must be spent writing, not editing.
Apologies for the long headline but I wanted to get the full question on there. This is the latest in my Friday Frivolity piece. Earlier pieces were about crazy jobs, summer reading and one or two others
Somehow i forget to mention the biggest downside to typing faster - the possibility of making more typos. Share your favorite typo stories here.
I was going to make the theme photography (on my mind because of these two pieces here and here) but decided to make it more open ended. Enjoy. Here are the rules
Update: Well he wrote back to say that everything i've showed him so far looks good including war protest photos Thus my folder of more than 500 possible photos
Here are the rules The rules here are pretty basic: I, or someone else, picks the topic. You write about it for 10 minutes and then must stop. The time must be spent writing, not editing.
As you may have noticed in pieces here and here, I do find rubber ducks quite fascinating. I explained the history of the rubber duckie fascination back here. This was not lost on my nieces - 7 and 3 - who are two of the main reasons I moved to Austin.
This is my submission to my Writing Down the Bones exercise. The basic idea is you must write for ten minutes nonstop, which means you have to essentially say "shut up" to your inner editor.
With Father's Day coming up this seemed an appropriate theme, especially as we did one on moms back here (and feel free to add to that or any other prior exercises) Here are the rules
Background: Over here I asked people to tell us about their best, worst and oddest job. Last Wednesday I wrote about my oddest job, where I "killed" people who were MIA as far as the hospital hiring us crazy young temps was concerned.. Today I'm writing about my worst job.
This was originally written for Writing Down the Bones - the topic for the week is Freedom.
When: A high school summer (so about 1985) Where: Southern California Why: I needed the money What: Well, you have to read the story to find that out now, don't you?
First, a little background: I like to think I know a little about modelling behavior and the power of suggestion, i.e. if you are in a restaurant and you pick up a drink odds are good that others will then drink too even if they are not particularly thirsty.
I have been trying to sort out why the apartment burglary stuff bugs me. I mean it's just stuff, right? (OK, expensive important stuff but as a guy with a truck with a bumper sticker "voluntary simplicity" I try to encourage people to have less stuff.
Dear NPR Morning Edition On Tuesday you broadcast this report about car stereo thefts being down. On Wednesday morning, while I was parked at an Austin library, someone stole my car stereo.
Very good news - not only have I moved into my own place in Austin and am going to Ikea today to get furniture but, as of 5 p.m. yesterday, I have a job.
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