Writer Wednesday

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! ❤ Kyle

Quotes

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” -Ernest Hemingway

“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.” -Meg Chittenden

“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.” -Jack London

Prompts

Thanks to http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts for this week’s prompts!

You’re outside cutting your grass when you come across a large hole in the ground. You’ve never noticed the hole before, but it looks to be some sort of tunnel to another world. You decide to peek through and see where it leads, only it leads you to a pivotal moment in your past—and it’s giving you an opportunity to change it. Write this scene.

You had that dream again. The one where the beast with the drooping hands and wicked fangs stares you down from your window. Except the windows open this time—and you’re awake! What happens next?

You wake up in—wait this isn’t your room. Confused you step to the mirror and see that you’re famous actor Robert Downey Jr. How did you get here and what do you do?

and more!

6 free writing podcasts: http://writerscircle.com/2013/08/6-free-writing-podcasts.html

How to Open: https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_notebook_view/15/how_to_open

Get the most out of the rest of your summer with this reading list from the TED community: http://blog.ted.com/2014/06/12/your-summer-reading-list-2014/

…more, more, more!

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Write on!

Edges

She is all edges

and I see you try

to sand her down

so she is as smooth

as a stone made for skipping

across your heart,

but still edges grow about her.

Like plants in the doormat,

they appear when you are not looking,

as if overnight. You shake

your head in disbelief

as she stands strong

against you when you hoped

she would melt at your feet

and heed your command

–yet again –but she does not

crumble and she does not bleed

for you anymore. Steel warrior

of her life starting today,

and you dare to ask

for tomorrow.

 

 

 

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Privacy in Relationships

Heyy Blog

Photo courtesy of flickr

It has been said that sharing is caring, but what about the things you aren’t knowingly sharing? This ranges from reading your texts over your shoulder to more serious offenses such as going through your personal accounts, phone, space, etc. without your knowledge. In a relationship, there has to be some boundaries in order to keep both of you from feeling like your privacy is being violated.

How does one determine these boundaries? Well, it’s simple: talk to your partner about what is and isn’t okay in regards to privacy. Doesn’t sound so simple? Well, try it anyway.

Discussion about privacy is one of the most important conversations you can have as a couple whether you have just started dating, cohabitating, or married for 10+ years. A single conversation now can prevent a more serious and devastating conversation down the road when one or both of…

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Writer Wednesday

Quotes, prompts, inspiration, and more to help writers get back to writing. As always, let me know what you think! If you’re brave enough to post your writing in regards to a prompt, let me know –I would love to check it out! ❤ Kyle

 

Quotes

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” -Sir Francis Bacon

“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel –it is, before all, to make you see. That –and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to all your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm –all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.” -Joseph Conrad

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” -Joan Didion

Prompts

Pick a line of dialogue from the list below and use it to start your piece. Change punctuation as needed.

“Have you seen my sweater?”

“It was too dark for me to see!”

“You don’t understand. I had to go.”

“Nothing is fair in love, war, or badminton.”

“There was only one left.”

“I could say sorry, but I wouldn’t mean it.”

and more!

How Literature changes your brain for the better: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-literature-changes-your-brain-for-the-better

affect v. effect: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/affect-versus-effect?page=all

An editing check list! http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/grammar-girls-editing-checklist

…more, more, more!

Looking for more prompts and inspiration? Check out previous Writer Wednesdays! https://kylefreelander.wordpress.com/category/writer-wednesday/

Spread the love! Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kylefreelanderwriter and follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/Kylefreelander

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Write on!

How to Have a Successful First Date

Heyy Blog

First dates can be stressful: You have found someone that you are interested in and are now participating in this sort of ritual called dating to get to know each other better. The desired first date is crowded with a mix of emotions from anticipation, dread, nerves, excitement, lust, and much more, making it one of the most stressful dates of them all. This is the date that determines if there will be more outings with this person or if things will just fizzle out and you both will continue on with your lives like nothing out of the ordinary happened. Here’s a list to help you ace that first date and, hopefully, get a chance at a second, fourth, fifth, eighth and twenty-second one.

1. Choose a date location where the two of you have a chance to actually talk. Meeting at a movie theater, sitting through a two and…

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