#wring group

The prompt for this week was to write a poem with sound. I do my best to highlight different literary elements and styles of writing in writing group. Yes, there are open ended prompts but I also like trying to, not teach per se, but to showcase different things that people can include in their writing. If you don’t know about a thing, you can’t use the thing. Onomatopoeias can feel childish, but…

Writing Group: Short Stories: XIII

The prompt this last week was to select an image from a selection of interesting medieval manuscript art and write anything about it. I selected two separate images. The story for the second image is below. Normally I only do edits for spelling but I also did I a bit of reorganization as far as the dialog is concerned. I do want to note that the person that runs our group did pick some of the…

Writing Group: Short Story: VIII

For this prompt we all drew old movie titles from a hat and wrote either news stories or movie trailer based on the title. This was a ton of fun and we all laughed a lot at how ridiculous these got. As always, these short stories are unedited besides spelling. The Crater Lake Monster (1977) COMING THIS SUMMER! Builders creating a high-end resort off the shores of the pristine Crater Lake begin…