Tag: creativity
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Flash Your Fiction Workshop Writeup
Day One Last night’s Flash Your Fiction class at Howard Community College went great! We talked creativity, freedom to create, and sparking the flame. We put a little science in our fiction and did the Cloud in a Bottle activity and it applied perfectly. (I am just starting to incorporate different aspects of the […]
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Flash Your Fiction at HoCo College
I’ve been putting the finishing touches on the Flash Your Fiction workshop that I’m teaching at Howard Community College on Monday (February 26 and March 6), and it is going to be great! We’re going to have great writing exercises, creativity-sparking activities, and we’re putting some science in our fiction and doing the cool Cloud […]
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10-26 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: horror and ratio)
“Done!” Haley shouted as she hit the Enter key. She collapsed against the back of her chair and removed her headphones. “Are you serious?” Orson stuck his head in the booth. “We’re finished?” “Yes, sir, we are outta here, Styled Hunter VII is in the can!” She grinned. “Mallory DeMarco hunted and trapped The Hatchet […]
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9-25 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: decoration and pod)
“There! That’s perfect!” GCH11878 nodded to itself. It narrowed its eyes and studied the angle of the decoration that now hung from the top of its sleep pod. It had found the shred of shiny paper on garbage duty and hidden it away in its smock pocket. “Not quite there,” it whispered and repositioned the […]
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10-23 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: excluded)
“When I was in college, we ended up doing a guerrilla production of a show” Amanda took a sip of her latte. “How do you do that? A clandestine production under the cover of night that no one knew to go see?” Charlie laughed. “No, to protest that the theater department decided to a show […]
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10-21 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: iron)
“Hey, Mom,” Jeremy cries. “Look at me!” He grabs the iron fireplace poker and ties it into a neat knot. “Honey,” Doris Jameson sighs and picks up the twisted mass. “Now what am I going to do with it? I can’t use it for the fireplace anymore.” Jeremy screws up his face in concentration. “I […]
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10-13 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: haunt)
“Okay, now that you’ve got your morning coffee, I want to ask your advice,” Ashley curled her voluptuous form in the overstuffed chair at the Java-Mukti cafe. “What do you think of this?” she handed her phone to Anna. “You are my why. You’re my one and only. You haunt my dreams,” Anna read the text […]
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10-2-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: incognito)
Laura stepped back from the mirror and appraised her right eye. An artful cat’s eye made her appear polished yet with a hint of mystery. With a curt nod, she applied the the same to her left eye. James entered their shared hotel suite and stopped short. “Do we have a mission tonight I didn’t […]
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9-30-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: digress)
“At this point, we can only speculate about the possible reason for the young lady’s apprehension that she was in dire danger,” Reginald Wiltshire Helmsworth sauntered around the room. He punctuated each by tapping his dapper fedora with his mahogany cane. He skirted chairs, tables, and the occasional foot stuck out in the middle of […]
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Getting to the edge
For those who have been reading this blog for my flash fiction challenge stories, I’ll have one later today. Right now, though, I’m pondering procrastination. Actually, no, wait. It’s not procrastination. I’m not procrastinating on working on the thing I need to do. I am getting things done. But, oh, wow, it’s like watching trees […]
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