Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Death Comes Knocking
This my submission for the Extreme Writing Now Group, Memoir Writing, prompt of … When I commented on Rachel’s memoir submission, , I said I thought I was eight when that particular incident occurred. I was wrong. The memory of my first real fear has come [Read More]
Extreme Writing Now Network ~ Episode 1, Memoirs
Sunday, July 25th 2010, Extreme Writing Now went live with the inaugural episode of the Extreme Writing Now Network radio show on Blog Talk Radio. The show opened up a weekly broadcast that can be heard every Sunday at 6:30 EST (-5 GMT) at Extreme Writing Now Network. The [Read More]
Weekly Round Up at Extreme Writing Now ~ July 11 2010 thru July 17 2010
This Past Week at Extreme Writing Now Flash Fiction The Long Road Home (Part 5) The Eye Of The Dragon ~ 55 Spoken Words The Long Road Home (Part 4) Looking Back At Norman The Long Road Home (Part 3) The Long Road Home (Continued) Bird on a Wire Veil of Destruction The Long [Read More]
Looking Back At Norman
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Usually, they try to swat me, but this Psycho was trying to stare me down. Relatives reported that his mother was extremely tasty. Tied to that chair, she made easy pickings. A veritable feast. Norman had his mom’s eyes – but not for much longer. Another chair [Read More]
Remembering Sound and Food
Continuing in Memoir Writing with exercises which explore our senses, here are two more. The first is to give a memory of sound (trying not to use the word ”sound”). Here is Natalie Goldberg’s example, ”I remember hearing the lawn mower as I lay in bed when I was [Read More]
Veil of Destruction
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Rising, she scanned the room. Everything appeared normal on this abnormal day. Thoughts of past happinesses flashed through her mind, but it was her angry present which now consumed her. Minutes later, she nervously shut off the engine and checked the vest, convincing [Read More]
Exercise 2 – Remembering Red
This week in the memoir writing group we will be focusing on our senses. I will add one prompt today, another mid-week, and a final one on Friday. These exercises are from page 6 (Test 1) from Natalie Goldberg’s book, “Old Friend From Far Away.” She [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ The End
Series Building A Short Story» All good things must come to an end, and so it is for our series, Eight weeks ago, we started with a piece fully intending to create a much larger work of fiction from the micro-fiction cornerstone. Our goal was to reach the [Read More]
Writing Memoir Now
“To have an old friend visit from far away – what a delight!” What if that old friend was you? The quote just mentioned is from the introduction to Natalie Goldberg’s book, “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir.” It was a birthday present [Read More]
Shushing Monsters
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Rounding the corner, finding what she did, well let’s just say it was never expected. “El Blimpo” echoes from the deepest reaches. Like looking down a dark hole, squinting the eyes to see if you can see! Suddenly a flash flying from the darkness the monster [Read More]
Learn To Write ~ The Teacher
Series Learn To Write» This week’s entry in the Sunday series, , maybe the most important entry in the entire series. At least I think so. Personally, I believe that any subject that involves creativity is a very had subject to teach and learn. Sure, we can [Read More]
The Garden
Mangled vines give way to digital blooms. The harvest, perpetual. Eve, enrobed in layers of code, recoils from the red, round object in Lilith’s hand. “Here” Lilith presses, her breath teeming with the life of long forgotten truths, “It’s the only [Read More]
Grand Re-Opening of Extreme Writing Now
Do you write more than the checks to pay the bills? Well, have we got good news for you! Monday, June 28, 2010, Extreme Writing Now will officially become a free social network for writers, offering writers of all types a place to hang their hats and chill out with their [Read More]
Learn to Write ~ Read to Learn
Every author who has ever written a how to book on writing has hammered home the point that the best way to learn to write is to read what other authors are writing, and that is where we're headed today in the series, Learn To Write. [Read More]
Two Lions in Utah
Maybe the truest thing anyone has ever said about writers is that everyone is indeed a writer. The only difference between those of us who do write and the ones who do not is courage. [Read More]
Learn to Write ~ New Sunday Review Series
Today, we are going to kickoff a new weekly series called, Learn to Write. Learn to Write is going to be a review of some of what we think are some of the best resources where knowledge about creative writing can be gained, both offline and online. [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Jumping to 220
Welcome to the third installment in our series, Building a Short Story. If you have been following along, then you know that we started to build a short story by writing a 55 word fiction piece in the post The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone, and are attempting to create a [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Jumping to 220
Tomorrow, Friday June 4th, our once proud and mighty 55 word fiction tale will be three weeks old and 220 words strong. In the last two weeks, we took our story from 55 words to [Read More]
From 55 Words To 110, Our Fiction Sees Growth
Last week, we opened our series, Building a Short Story, by introducing a method of constructing a valid short piece from a micro-fiction, 55 word fiction to be exact, and rewriting by doubling the word count with each edit [Read More]
Building a Short Story ~ The Series Continues
Tomorrow, May 28th, we continue our series, Building a Short Story, by starting with a micro-fiction piece and rewriting by doubling the word count until we have a bona fide short story. [Read More]
