Category: challenge
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Gotta Be Jelly ‘Cause Jam Don’t Shake Like That
Display of jams in the market behind theRoyal Festival Hall. Creative Commonslicense held by Fae Once in a while one of the writers I work with gives us a prompt that simply demands a stretch of the imagination. When I was given this prompt and only fifteen minutes, I found…
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… In Bed!
If you come from a certain time and a certain place, you’ll know about the … in bed! game. I have played it numerous times with friends as we eat in Chinese food restaurants. It goes like this: you eat your dinner and when the fortune cookies arrive, everyone picks…
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Writing Can’t Be Fun!
I was at my wit’s end, torn between throwing out 4/5ths of a 100,000 word novel and starting over, or just shelving the whole project. My characters were not doing what I wanted them to do (if you’re an author this makes sense, trust me), my plot was meandering all…