A few days ago, I talked about dealing with writer’s block. It’s that internal editor that acts as judge, jury, and executioner when you’re writing pretty much anything. It has no value when you’re composing a first draft because it blocks you and gives you nothing but frustration. That internal editor will have value later […]
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What could be more fun than a caption contest? Everyone is eligible to participate! And I will even send a prize. It will be a fun refrigerator magnet, with your choice of design. So here goes!!! Please write a caption for this photograph. You have until Monday night to post it. I will announce the
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Today’s prompt has me giving advice about a topic that I have a lot of knowledge about. Today, that advice will be about defeating writer’s block… or, at the very least, pushing writer’s block aside. It may come back, but not yet. One of the reasons that people have writer’s block is the fear that
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After Bearnacle returned from his magic adventure that took him beyond the stars, he began learning how to build boats. His dream was to be the captain of a great sailing ship, but the bears had no such boats. Only the humans had those large ships with many sails. When Bearnacle was a cub, his
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Part four from last time: Wolf walked on. Just then, he got very hungry. He wondered if he would feel hungry while sleeping. Abruptly, he woke up. He walked into the kitchen, where his mother was weeping over an onion. Or maybe something else??? prompts: skeletal, lesson, vacant, award “I had a nightmare last night,”
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Several days ago, I asked for questions, and I got one, from Safrianna. She asked: “I’d love to ask you about the name of your blog/website and what inspired it! I, too, am drawn to the sun, moon, and stars. “ The smiley face wasn’t as large in the original question, but, when I copied and
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part four Last time, I had said that I would post one more installment in this tale, but, since then, I changed my mind. I decided to break this into two parts, just because a blog post with ten images could be a bit long and unwieldy. So, for this installment, I have six drawings,
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So… I know that pumpkinations isn’t actually a word, but I decided to do a Lewis Carroll sort of thing and invent a word. Some of the words that Lewis Carroll invented include: chortle, frabjous, frumious, bandersnatch, snark, boojum, galumph, mimsy. They are fun words, as well as being funny. I wonder which of them
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Part three Wolf felt cold and apprehensive. “I will go and look for my bear friend. He might be named Bearnacle now. I will leave in the morning.” “Please be careful. It’s very dangerous,” said Wolf’s mother. Just then, a cold wind blew fiercely, and mother and son went into the house. Wolf fell into
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Part two Prompts for day eight through fourteen of Inktober are: reckless, heavy, sweep, sting, shredded, drink, and trunk. Where the story left off: Wolf gave his mother a special pair of earrings, which startled her, but he didn’t know why. She didn’t speak about her nonreaction. After that, Wolf talked to his mother about
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