Welcome to Poetry Play Thursday!
Today’s poetry prompt is a photo. I hope it will inspire you to write. If it does, I hope you’ll share you poem, or a link to it, here in our comments. We’d love to read what you’ve written! Have fun!
Train Tracks by Peter Griffin
Wishcasting Wednesday is a weekly exercise in exploring your dreams and supporting the dreams of others. It is hosted by the beautiful and inspirational Jamie Ridler of Jamie Ridler Studios, who posts a weekly question and explains:
You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the [...]
Jacquie Rogers, Author
by Jacquie Rogers
Copyright © 2009 Jacquie Rogers
Reprinted from 1st Turning Point
Your book is out, waiting to be purchased by eager readers, and you’re on the promotion circuit. In a flash of genius, you signed up for a featured-author [...]
Every once in a while, a friend and I go out of the area for a writers’ retreat. This isn’t sponsored by anyone or anything–it’s just us–Judith Laik and I, and sometimes our two other friends can make it if we’re lucky. We pack up our clothes, food, and writing materials . [...]
Hi everybody,
I have no prompts today, but I wanted to let you know that next week, I’m interviewing a writer named Diamond Taylor. Be sure to come by for that. She’s going to be giving out some posters and bookmarks, too. That’s Tuesday the 10th! I hope you’ll visit and say hello. [...]
Things happen.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my experience with publishing a novella on the Kindle, called Faery Merry Christmas. Publishing is one thing–selling books is something else altogether. It requires time, effort, a little (lot of) money, and a boatload of luck (which you [...]
Our modern sensibilities tell us certain aspects of our lives have “always been that way.” Not so. When we write historicals, we need to research the attitudes and mores of that particular time period, and incorporate that richness into our stories.
Take drugs, in the 19th Century, for instance. At one time, [...]
Happy Fall, everyone!
I’m not sure how it’s possible, but once again it’s Tuesday!
Sooo…that means it’s time for Tuesday’s photo prompt. Just in case someone new decides to take it on, the rules follow:
In comments, post a story or poem of four hundred words or less, based on the photo below. If you’d rather post your [...]
The law was a bit sparse in the Old West, often not a lawman around for hundreds of miles. If a criminal knew how to live off the land and he owned a fast horse, he was pretty well guaranteed an escape. What’s a sheriff to do?
In 1872, the Supreme Court [...]
Once upon a time I had a story idea that was set in San Francisco in the 1850s, and it involved a Chinese girl. Knowing little about the Chinese culture in this decade and how it translated to the New World, I spent a considerable amount of time hopping from one topic [...]
