Prose, Poetry, and Pictures

Here is a new type of prompt where I take the summary of a news story and write a scene that is somehow related. Let me know if you have any prompt ideas for me, because I’d love to write them. — Prompt: “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are turning the GOP’s greatest political liability…

A mind is like candlelight, it needs to be still to shine brightest.

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?”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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……

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