Here is my first VLog with some good advice.
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This is my fifth prompt and it's getting technical.
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This is a writing prompt done completely on my tablet. — Prompt: Write a scene where technology is important. — RESPONSE I: “Is there anything else we can do?” Grandma asked. “They don’t seem to think there is.” I said. “This is bull shit.” Jessica said. “Jessica!” Grandma said. “What did the doctors say exactly?” Mom...
Let's start the week out with a prompt.
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Here’s a prompt that I found in one of my writing books that I simplified a bit. This is a fun one for any writer, so you should try it out. — Prompt: Take a fictional character and describe them in a way that makes them real. — RESPONSE I: The wheels slip and spit black water on my feet as it passes me on the sidewalk. The miscolored splotches against my green skin remind me of...
One-word prompts are fun?
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This is my first one-word prompt and the idea is just to take a word and write for sixty seconds as much as you want about that word. — Word: approval — It just wasn’t in the cards I guess. Timing, luck, whatever you want to call it. It just wasn’t meant to happen. I thought it might have though, and that’s probably where the rub is. It’s a house, the American...
This was a real dream and it was spooky.
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This is the second entry that I am posting from my meatspace journal, and it was from a dream I had last week. — “Had a dream last night. The ground raised and lowered in great jerks. I tell my wife it’s an earthquake and to watch the buildings for collapse. I hear my wife say something in horror and I follow her finger to the sky. Giant boulders in all distances and size were...
Here is my third prompt courtesy of my wife!
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Hello you. So there was only one response to my last prompt and it was from my wife, so here ya go honey, I hope you enjoy your prompt! — Prompt: Write a scene where two characters meet at a zoo. — RESPONSE I: Mark shook his head and went away from the thick glass that separated us from the great apes. There were a lot that day and Carol wouldn’t leave the glass. Carol loved to watch...
This is my second prompt and I'm already out of ideas.
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I was supposed to replace that [X] and that [Y] down there with a very insightful topic and action, but that was the best I could do at 3:00 in the morning. Give me a break, okay? It’s only the second prompt and I’m already out of prompts. — Prompt: Write an [X] where [Y] happens… — [WARNING: I curse here again because these characters have potty mouths. Not for...
Epic poems are epic cool.
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Hey you. I just posted a new lecture at The New American Scholar Project.
Please check it out, you might enjoy it.
Thanks for taking a look.
Cheers,
Caleb
Journals aren't meant to be read, but…
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Hello you. This post is the first in a collection of journal entries from my meatspace journal. Some of them I will post for academic purposes, so you can see how a fellow writer does it, and some of them I will post just in case my black lab puppy eats my meatspace journal. Which is likely. — ENTRIES I: “I don’t know what month it is, but I know it is the 28th of that month...
Well, here's a midnight prompt.
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I thought I would leave this first part here to show people what I started with. PROMPT: Write a scene in which two characters struggle to understand each other. — The following was written in about six minutes while I had the conversation with myself. — RESPONSE I: “China’s a weird place huh?” Chet said, looking up from his brownish nails. “China speaks...