What You Make of Time

Time takes on a very strange connotation when it comes to writing. Ok it’s not only with writing since most people experience that time flies when you’re having fun and crawls when you’re bored. But time seems to take a life of its own when you write or plan to write or procrastinate to write. It has a whimsical bent and is neurotic, bipolar and slightly schitzophrenic. Don’t believe me? Take an alarm clock and set it to go off in 10 minutes. Now start writing. Really, start writing, and then come back, I’ll still be here.

5 Christmas Story Prompts

It’s almost December and I smell Christmas. In the spirit of the season, here are 5 prompts that might help you find some inspiration in that most happy or sad, annoying, stressful and all around crazy Holliday.

 Stranger than fiction

Prompt: u nd 2 spk d lingo or gt left behind

I came across the following infographic on OnlineSchools.com on how texting has changed the way we communicate with each other. Eventhough acronyms aren’t a new part of our language, the way we use them in daily conversation is a new phenomenon. “text talk” has become integrated in our language that some of it is now included in the Oxford English Dictionary.

What does this mean for writers?

We now have characters that can text as well as talk. Therefore this prompt: write a short short story in which two characters are communicating with each other purely through text talk. Or in other words, write a piece of dialogue with text messages.

Superstitious Prompts

Friday the 13^th is a day known for its bad luck. I’ve always found this strange considering my parents got married on this day and, three and half decades later, they are not only still married, but very happily so.

Superstitions also depend on where you live. In a few countries the 13^th of the month is an unlucky day if it’s a Tuesday rather than a Friday.

The cultural difference I myself learned from when growing up was: in the English language it’s believed that a broken mirror

Writing Prompt: Zombies

"Zombies Are Nuts About Brains"
Reproduced here with the special permission of Terry Border

I’m not a big zombie movie, book or video-game connoisseur, but, I am addicted to the zombie TV series “The Walking Dead”. So like a good fan, I watched the highly anticipated 2^nd season finale (it had almost 9,000,000 viewers, which, for cable, is a staggering number, and that’s only the people who watched it live). The episode didn’t disappoint and I can’t wait for season 3 to start. For fun, I’m trying my hand at a writing a zombie story.