Raw excerpt for today: My song would be “Let it Be” (Beatles), because I do believe there will always be an answer.
Month / June 2016
June PoWriMo Prompt #9
Prompt for today: Shell-ridden.
Without dealing directly with war, how would you use this word?
Cirque: The Afghan
Hi Everyone!
I am pleased to announce that Cirque will publish my short story “The Afghan” in its summer solstice issue, due out this month. More details when the issue goes live.
Not familiar with Cirque, please visit them. They publish the best literature of the Northern Pacific Rim region. http://www.cirquejournal.com
June PoWriMo Day #8
Raw excerpt for today:
I am a canvas unfinished, dreaming about what colors to use next and how to color outside of the boundaries that hold me in.
June PoWriMo Prompt #8
Prompt for the day: whirl. Think about how you would use this word. Is it a verb or a noun? Your choice. Write about it.
June PoWriMo Day #7
Today’s raw excerpt comes from one of the exercises I took part in at the writers’ conference I attended this last weekend. It is interesting where such exercises lead you. This one brought me back to a memory I had mostly forgotten.
Raw excerpt:
I am the child whose favorite two crayons were blue green and green blue. I once dreamed that life is made of options and perspectives of those two colors….
June PoWriMo Prompt #7
Images and things mean different things to different people. Take an ordinary thing like glass. The words “shattered” or “broken” come naturally with glass.
Prompt: What other words can you use with glass? Crumpled glass (in my palm) comes to mind, but what would you use with glass? Take that thought and run with it.
Quatrain.Fish Poem
I’m pleased to announce that Quatrain.Fish has accepted a short poem of mine. I will post when it goes live. If you are not familiar with Quatrain.Fish, please visit them. All poems are no more than 4 lines lines.
Brevity with beauty. Quatrain.Fish. http://quatrain.fish
June PoWriMo Day #6
Raw excerpt for day #6.
I am a July Midwest thunderstorm in the aftermath: pent up pressure awash with a welcome release.
June PoWriMo Prompt #6
I took part in a writing conference over the weekend, and during the course of the conference, participated in an exercise of random words. Specifically, participants were to give the workshop instructor random nouns. One that gave was skyscraper. It was an interesting choice, partly chosen because I had recently heard Demi Lovato’s “Skyscraper” on my IPod.
Prompt: One person did chose this word in an exercise and it conjured images of 9/11 for her. Think about the word skyscraper. What does it bring to mind for you? There are no wrong answers.
J.L. Smith 