6 Steps to Writing Flash Fiction.
Month: December 2011
Prompt: Emergency Surgery
I am sitting in the hospital tonight with my husband, who got sick last night, throwing up and then complaining of a pain in his right side. We were in the emergency room by 4 am, and he was in emergency surgery by 7, having his appendix removed. Now, he is in bed and I’m…
Prompt: Made-Up Song Lyrics that Popped into My Head
I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to say. I am lost and alone in this world today. Mary Ann heard the song and found herself feeling blue. Yes, that was exactly how she felt. Lost and alone and without a clue how to proceed. She didn’t want to feel sorry for…
Standing Together for the Good
Today I awoke to a rare problem – a morality question – that came in the form of a man who does carpentry for us, who I will call Harold for the sake of his anonymity. My husband started my day by saying, “I just heard from the foreman for our project that Harold didn’t…
Great Article on How to Endure “Slow Growth” in Writing and in Life
How To Endure « Courage 2 Create.
5 Obstacles to Writing 20 Minutes a Day
I will be presenting a workshop entitled “How to Improve Your Writing in Just 20 Minutes a Day” in April, 2012 at the Story Circle Network national writing conference in Austin. I am pleased to have had my proposal accepted. This is a fine organization and I’m proud to be included. I conceived of this…
Prompt: Open my heart
“Open my heart, dear Lord, and guide me. Help me to know how to proceed,” Celeste whispered as she stared out at the dark road. It was midnight, her tire was flat, and she was twenty miles from the nearest town. She looked at the thermometer on her dashboard – 27 degrees – and the…
Prompt: A Tough Week
This has been a hard week. My beloved sister-in-law died on Tuesday and that was good in that she was no longer suffering, but bad from the point of view that I was fifteen hundred miles away when I wanted to be by her bedside. I talked to her the day before she died and…
Prompt: Taxi, Lonely and Nail formed from Random Scrabble Tiles
August Delaney sat in the taxi feeling lonely and sad. How could she ever find another friend as wonderful as Lily? When would she ever get to see Lily again now that she and her family were moving to Brazil? August looked down at her fingernails, freshly manicured with little pink lilies on each nail,…
20 Minutes a Day 