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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Caleb Jacobo and I am an aspiring writer living in Southern California. This blog is serving both as entertainment for anyone who reads it, and also for my purposes which are admittedly selfish: becoming a better writer. A fortune cookie once told me that writing is like a muscle and you must exercise it to keep it buff…I guess. The point is that...