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Revisiting Mid-Century Classics

Best laid plans I had great plans for May. Having plans should have been my first clue that life would throw me a curve ball or four. And...

Writing Exercise (PDF): Capturing Big Feelings

February is here. A short month with a lot on its shoulders. We have Valentine's Day, which, no matter your feelings on the holiday, can...

Harnessing Your Dreams in Writing

I’ve had a recurring nightmare since I was in kindergarten. The dream is inextricably linked to a trip my Brownie troop took. I don’t...

Writing the Extraordinary

Throughout our lives, we experience Extraordinary things, events, people, and places. Just as I think of creative masterpieces and...

Using the Senses to Bring Your Writing to Life

Description is one of the foundational elements of writing. Basic sentence structure and grammar help readers understand your writing,...

Using Cliches to Boost Your Creativity

When we cover clichés in my English class, I explain they’re shortcuts used to convey an experience, feeling, or set of feelings to...

Fueling the (Creative) Fire: Prompted Brainstorming

When your work involves being creative, it's hard to come up with new ideas day after day, hour after hour. To maintain a creative life,...

Photo Prompt for Creativity!

Here's a photo prompt for the week. What happens when two people see each other for the first time? Love? Hate? Fear? Envy? For me, this...

Creative Writing with Photo Prompts

If you've ever struggled with what to write, whether in a journal, a poem, a story, a blog post, or even as part of a creative nonfiction...

Writing exercise: Using Your Real-Life Antagonist

Over the past few weeks, I've been dealing with an unhappy person. This person is angry at someone else, and I got caught in the...

Poetry Workshop Wonders: List-Definition Poems

Today I had the privilege of spending time in one of my favorite places with my favorite people: a community creativity workshop. This...

Writing Prompt: Using Facebook to Craft Poems (and other types of writing)

Facebook and poetry may not seem like they go together - at least not from the perspective of using Facebook to generate poetry. But I'm...

What to Write When Nothing Comes

Maybe you've been lucky and never drawn a blank when sitting down to write. But if you're like me (and most people), you've sat and...

Writing Prompt: An Exercise in Perspective

One of the best things about being writers is that we get to play with reality. When we craft fiction, poetry, and even creative...