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Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction For this challenge, we want to see a photo of someone looking truly happy. Not “I’m-smiling-for-this-photo” happy, but really, deeply, twinkle-in-the-eyes happy. When we’re smiling a genuine smile, our whole faces get involved — our whole bodies, for that matter. There’s a light in our eyes. We look relaxed; there’s …
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Daily Prompt: Twenty-Five There are 26 letters in the English language, and we need every single one of them. Want proof? Choose a letter and write a blog post without using it. (Feeling really brave? Make it a vowel!) (wordle) Today we are invited to write a lipogram: a kind of limited writing or word game …
With apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson. Daily Prompt: No, Thanks Is there a place in the world you never want to visit? Where, and why not? There was a time when I believed that travel was not for me. I had no wanderlust and really could not understand why, with all that Great Britain has to offer, …
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Daily Prompt: Places Beach, mountain, forest, or somewhere else entirely? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJhq46ZpVbM For me, any or all of those will suffice; so long as they are wild and empty spaces. Not for me the burning sun, oiled bodies, chilled beer and sun loungers. Cliff’s beach party would send me scurrying inland to the mountains. As it happens, …
Daily Prompt: Back to the Future A service has been invented through which you can send messages to people in the future. To whom would you send something, and what would you write? Dear Beth You are old now, and failing. Do not grieve. Do not rail against your aged bones or mourn the things you …
Daily Prompt: First Light Remember when you wrote down the first thought you had this morning? Great. Now write a post about it. I was obviously mulling over the weekly writing challenge the other night as I was sleeping. In fact, I “wrote” a fabulous piece on the topic of Dystopia. It was coherent and it …
