Humor Writing Prompt #2: You’ve just discovered, entirely by accident, that an ordinary everyday item has somehow gained the ability to transport you through time. Compose a series of journal entries that reveal the discovery and your subsequent journeys.

Mar 3: Seems like I spent half the day looking for my pencil.  I hate using a pen to write my ( Read more... )

Three before two. Good ol' Ed at National Pasquinade has kickstarted my muse (well, kicked her, actually, because she fell asleep) and issued his third challenge, this time for an opening run-on sentence. Really long, meandering sentences that go on and on without any idea where they were going, only to keep right on going until they do not end so ( Read more... )

Tonight's writing exercise was political commentary, so it's on facebook.  This journal is not for politics.  It is only for my fiction exercises and explorations.

I started this as an FB post but it's starting to look too long for it.

I have concluded that my recent funk of the last few weeks boils down to one thing: I am not an introvert. Not the election, not a family member's illness, or another family member's death, though those events have fed it. No, I just need to be around people sometimes, and ( Read more... )

There is a dark, unfinished room in the basement of our house on MDI. I've been wanting for years to tell a story about that room ( Read more... )

For now, I'll stay with this.  If anything comes out that I like I'll polish it up and send it to Medium ( Read more... )

But I have Reasons. For a few days I was getting into the bed early because in anticipation of deep snow that may have to be cleared at 4AM. And then I started reading about the LJ servers moving to Russia and rumours that the result is that US laws no longer imply and Vlad can now ready any Journal entry he wants, even the locked ones. Nothing ( Read more... )

Finishing up the National Pasquinade prompt.

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Santa's Last Ride, Part 3"I'm glad you found us so quickly, Johnny," Nick said with relief.  We can catch up on where you've been after we... what ( Read more... )

Continuing the challenge from pasquinade...

Santa's Last Ride, Part 2Nick rocked back and forth in the snowbank until he could heave himself up.  Shaking off the loose snow, he check around him.  All of the reindeer were down.  Sleeping, he hoped.  He checked to see that all were accounted for.  "Don't bother, they're not going anywhere for quite some time ( Read more... )

I have been issued a challenge by pasquinade to come up with something that starts with a specific first line. I know he's just looking for material for his excellent little somewhat quarterly humor mag, The National Pasquinade, but challenge accepted ( Read more... )