• Prompt 4

    4. The best Halloween costumes you\’ve ever seen on Halloween. Why they were so memorable to you and why you wish you\’d thought of them first. So, I was siting with Ms.Snow White herself Kelsie, in the stands. We didn\’t make the finals at the Duncanville invitational, but we were staying to watch, because next year, that…

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  • Prompt 3

    Prompt 3. In a burst of charity, you are planning to be the best Halloween house in the neighborhood by giving away the best candy. Go through the days of preparation and detail your holiday evening. How have the chidlren reacted. Haven\’t you sampled on etoo many of the goodies, perhaps? The Band Chaperones went…

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  • Prompt 2

    photo © 2010 Loren Javier | more info (via: Wylio) Prompt 2. You have a 16 year old daughter who wants to go to a Halloween Party with all of her peers. You take her to the Halloween store to find an “appropriate” costume. She is resistant to most “conservative” choices. Describe the encounter, your…

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  • 1,000 Writing Prompts.

    One of the Blues Brothers\’Halloween 2010 Since November 2010, I have been pretty diligent about doing \”morning pages\”, three handwritten pages each morning about nothing in particular. But I am trying to get my writing discipline back, so I next started making evening \”writing appointments.\” These appointments are fine, but I\’m not getting any work…

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  • quote of the day

    Creativity is…seeing something that doesn\’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.            — Michele Shea

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  • It has often been saidthere’s so much to be read,you never can cramall those words in your head. So the writer who breedsmore words than he needsis making a chorefor the reader who reads. That’s why my belief isthe briefer the brief is,the greater the sighof the reader’s relief is. Dr. Seuss

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  • Yes, I\’m alive

    OMG! I just had a cup of tea and realised I have not updated this since people stopped clapping and Tinkerbell died… You would not believe how tidy my house now is. But I\’m sorry you\’ll just have to take my word for it.. I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with setting fire…

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  • Normally, I don\’t like the advice of the little Microsoft paperclip. But lately, he\’s getting better…

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  • I got a new full time job this past fall, and one of the reasons I took it was that is was 40% documentation. Like I have to spend that much of my time writing about what I did with the rest of my time. Which means non work writing is a bit thin. That\’s…

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  • No surprises here…

    Nothing I didn\’t know already! In other news, I\’m about 16K into the new book. Then I hit a snag in that one of the characters decided to write a diet book, and may lead a couple others down her dark, eating disordered world with it. I do need to stop researching and get writing…

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