Loves – I can’t believe it took me 10 months to write off a prompt about one of my nieces but the time was finally nigh. The prompt was mine, and it was to write about a song. Any song, any way, any POV. I immediately (OK it was like my fourth choice) thought of …
If you know anything about me, you know there is nothing more precious to me than the community of beautiful friends I have developed in D.C. Two of those friends help form my writing group, and I could not love it more. Mostly we drink wine and eat tater tots at Olivia’s Diner, but eventually …
So I have been making myself write a little bit every day this week and I think it’s paying off. I’ve been feeling pretty defeated about this book for a little bit now. Everything I write seems to need a huge effort to even get the words on the page, as if I’m pulling each …
This one was tricky, tricky. The prompt is “He didn’t think he’d heard her correctly …” and I was definitely stuck. I sat down to write it the day before our deadline and the story was not coming to me. The other times, I would at least have an idea or a nugget to work off. …
December’s theme was female friendship. This was a much harder prompt for me than the November sentence one. It was very broad, and I struggled with where to take it. I thought of this idea when I visited the Holocaust Museum the day after the Paris shootings and I felt the weight of humanity and senselessness to …
This was our first attempt at a writing group prompt, and it was so fun to see where everyone took it. The prompt was, “She did not expect to see the Persian man that day, but …” Try your own 🙂 She did not expect to see the Persian man that day but she was hopeful. She …