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“The cure for anything is salt water….sweat, tears or the sea.” ~ Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke Prompt:  H...

Prompt:  Imagine your life, or a part of your life, as a title and tagline.  That’s it. Give us the title, and give us the tagline. Tales...

WOE Prompt:  Four hundred words or less, fiction or creative non-fiction, linked up on Friday morning’s post, based on the following defini...

Prompt:  This week we’d like you to write a memoir piece about an unfulfilled goal or a broken resolution, beginning with the words, “I kn...

Prompt: Good writing plants the reader’s feet into your story. Good writing is also concise. So when you’re trying to decide where to spen...

Prompt: This week we’d like you to explore romantic heartbreak. For you fiction writers, here’s a chance to really delve into the psyche of ...

Prompt: Jeans. They can evoke so much emotion in us: the hot jeans we wear on a date, the skinny jeans we can finally fit into, mom jeans we...

Prompt: For this week’s prompt, write about a season of change for your character or you. It can be literal or metaphorical. I am trying to ...

Note:Aaah...jealousy. We all have it. We all feel it. And now we'd like you to write about it. We'll leave it open: you can write ...

NOTE: This week's prompt is simple: write a piece, fiction or non-fiction, inspired by the delicious shot. I chose to write fiction, a...

NOTE: This week's Red Writing Hood assignment is to write - fiction or non-fiction - about a time when you took a detour. Where had you...

Note: The prompt for this post is to share a memory about a vegetable, and not the politician-kind. My grandmother's house was pink ...

Prompt: Write a short piece, either fiction or non-fiction, about something ugly – and find the beauty in it. "That has to be the ...

NOTE: This was from another prompt of the Red Dress Club; we were supposed to write about finding a forgotten item in the back of our closet...

NOTE: This is in response to a writing prompt from The Red Dress Club . This is my first attempt to write fiction, and I am not sure of my...

I was five or six years old. We lived in El Paso, Texas. We were getting ready to go somewhere, so I was sitting on the couch waiting for ...