I once loved a tailor who took eager care of me/ Sewed together my loose ends with stitches neat and clean/ But now my love is gone/ And I am left unraveling/ Unraveling-Unraveling, The Crane Wives Writing Prompt Sometime in the middle of the night, Jess' parts scatter. It starts with her toes, popping off …
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The Mermaid’s Tavern
Souls of Poets dead and gone,What Elysium have ye known,Happy field or mossy cavern,Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?...-John Keats, Lines on the Mermaid Tavern Writing Prompt grew up poor and generally content. When he mother fell ill and he needed money to save her, he set off, confident that he would be praised when he …
When You Leave
“Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind.”― Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain Writing Prompt Write about heart break. This can be a non-fiction piece about a time someone left in your life, or a fiction piece if you …
Dystopia
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”― Lois Lowry, The Giver Everything was perfect, as it should be. Every person was provided for evenly. No one went hungry. No one was homeless, and yet Charlie didn't feel right. She woke up every day at the same …
Passion
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves Character development challenge: What is your …
Princess of the Birds
“It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.”― Toni Morrison, Sula The winged goddess swore she would never return to Earth after her daughter left to live amongst the humans and created the vast array of birds that live on Earth now, but after war breaks …
The River Bones
“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Tristen has been dead for a long time, but he often liked to …
An Awkward Conversation
Scott Pilgrim: Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase 'Paku-Paku,' which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you …
God of the Party
“He is life's liberating force.He is release of limbs and communion through dance.He is laughter, and music in flutes.He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!When his blood bursts from the grapeand flows across tables laid in his honorto fuse with our blood,he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadowsof ivy-cool sleep.”― Euripides, The Bacchae Allen …
What is Evil?
“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels Let's talk about evil. What makes a character "evil?" What motivates your antagonist? Think about your …
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