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| Walking bear |
There is a bear at the door, and he’s not knocking gently.
Writing prompt
Tuesday prompt: #16 2013
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| My scene: Sydney Carton in the carts on the way to the guillotine. |
Think about your favorite book, then narrow your favorite parts done to one scene. Get it firmly in your mind and think it through adding details to your memory of the event. When you think you have it well established in your mind, fully involved in your senses, sit down and write it.
Tuesday prompt: #15 2013
Description practice: it’s a river. Describe it – season, slow trickle or wild ride, color, texture, temperature, sound, engulfing or barely present.
Tuesday prompt: #14 2013
Have you ever played the game of looking at people you don’t know, and you come up with their back stories? That is what you are going to do today.
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| What’s her back story? |
Character’s current situation: Her name is Ruth, newly divorced raising a seven-year-old son on her own. Timid, small boned and stoop shouldered, she has finally found a job at a local window and door mill. Her first experience for the night is to stack blocks of wood being trimmed to a precise length by an experienced chopsaw operator.
How did she get to be here? What is her story? What caused the divorce? What made her once stand proud? Does she lack education, confidence, family support? What did she used to want more than anything else in her life?
Tuesday prompt: #13 2013
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| What if these jasmine blooms were orange with white tips? |
Take an ordinary outdoor scene and start describing it, but add a twist. Alter shapes, colors and textures to the things you describe.
Rather than a tall oak, give it an awkward crouching trunk with filament-like leaves of puce. Make the scene both alien and familiar. Call a tree a tree, but what a tree it is!
Tuesday prompt: #12 2013
I don’t often give prompts for poetry, but I do write poetry on occasion. Much of the prompts I have provided are easy to manipulate if one wishes to apply it to lines of verse. In this prompt, though it will be directed at extending images in poetry, it is reasonable to expect that extending a descriptive image in prose writing is just as important, so feel free to adjust it to fit a story.
Below are three short images. As a sample, I am extending one of them. But the other two are for anybody visiting to practice extending the image.
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| tiny ships in a busy harbor |
a boat moored in a small busy harbor
The skiff tipped a bobbing gait with the wash
of the waves coming in, coming in and going out
in rippled ramps, after being beat into gentleness
by the tight harbor’s cluttered docks.
Now your turn.
- a barking dog at night
- dark clouds overhead