Inktober52 2023: Puppet

This drabble kind of ran away from me and the focus (puppet), but I'm okay with it because it's helping me understand my characters and their world better. “Wren?” a voice piped up from beyond the tent flaps. A voice of honey and sugar and all things sweet. Eliza. With the golden curls that Wren …

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Inktober52 2023: Build

My cold fingers scramble to light the match that will build this fire into a blazing inferno. Over and over, I scrape the match against the rough red of the matchbox. But again and again, the match snaps in half. Unlit. I toss away the broken pieces, adding more kindling to the growing pile of …

Inktober: Gargoyle

My plan for October was to participate in Inktober but instead of drawing, I wanted to use the prompts for writing. I proceeded to complete the first day's prompt (gargoyle) and then haven't done any of the other days since. This is partly due to having a busy week but mainly because I've been working …

Sunday Snippets: Ten Lines/Try Ten

It's been a while since I shared any of my writing or even updated about it. I can never tell if people are interested in reading "writing update" posts, so I go back and forth about posting them. But I'm still steadily editing through my YA contemporary novel. I'm almost finished with draft 4 and …

Sunday Snippets: Opening Line Prompt

This past week I gave my teen writers an opening line and then they had to write what happened next. Of course, I participated in the writing exercise as well and I didn't expect to go Jurassic Park on everybody, but here we are. The opening line is italicized to distinguish what I came up …

Sunday Snippets: Show vs Tell Part 2

Last week, I shared an exercise I did with my teen writers from the library that had to do with showing vs. telling. I didn't want the post to get too long, so I didn't include a second exercise we worked on during the same writing club meeting. This exercise was put together by a …

Sunday Snippets: Show vs Tell

We discussed show vs tell, briefly, during my last meeting with my teen writers. It's a tricky element of writing that is super important but hard to grasp. So I had them do a fun exercise where I gave them three phrases to pick from and then they had to write a scene that depicted …

Sunday Snippets: Dialogue Exercise

It's been a while since I shared a writing exercise. This one was paired with a mini-lesson on avoiding info dumps in writing for my teen writers at the library. Basically, I challenged them to write a scene that explains the culture // world // time // etc. a character is living in entirely through …

Sunday Snippets: Light Poetry

This will probably be the last bit of poetry I share for a while since the teen writing club is moving on to other topics. I don't usually find myself writing poetry, so I don't anticipate having a lot to share in the future. But then again, who knows when inspiration will strike? This past …

Sunday Snippets: Haikus

The Teen Writing Club I run at my library decided to continue with poetry for a little while. We'll be going over the more popular forms of poetry, exploring the specific structures as well as the poets that are known for writing those specific forms. And we'll also be experimenting by writing some of them …