One of the first things I learned from being on Illumination is that it’s important for writers to have a way to showcase their work. I’ve been watching the way other authors, such as Dr Mehmet Yildiz and J.A. Taylor, have put their portfolios together and came up with something…
Your weekly dose of writing prompts
Hello again, my lovelies. Can you believe we’re almost at the end of this month? I’m totally freaked out. I honestly can’t believe how fast this month has gone by. And I owe it all to you. …
The difficulties of writing something I don’t know how to write
I’m a writer. It’s what I do to get the weirdness out of my head. I enjoy it. I get a rush out of it. But sometimes I have to write things that I find more than difficult. …
My attempt at free verse poetry
Cold then warm
Wet then dry
Day by day
A battle between natural forces
Birds and clouds
Then snow and ice
Light jackets
To gloves and hats
Flora and fauna in constant confusion
Gentle breezes
Then arctic blasts
Runny noses
Raspy voices
Always ailing
It seems nature’s gone insane…
Lindsey Cooper sat in the backseat of her father’s car, watching the sights go by in their wake. For their annual summer vacation, Mr. Cooper decided to take the whole family to his childhood home.
She could hear her father talking as he pointed to several different buildings. However, Lindsey…
A friendly little freewrite
I’ve been accepted as a writer for several publications within this platform. I am humbled by this but have to admit that I haven’t done much with it. I get so hyped up on the idea of writing for such and such publication that I block…
Hello again and welcome to another new week of this exciting new year. I want you all to know that I’ve been overjoyed at all the submissions from the first two weeks of prompts. …
Though it wasn’t my first archaeological dig, it was the biggest I’d been involved with since graduating. My professor had gotten permission from the German government to begin excavations in an area of the Black Forest near the village of Rotenbach.
Local legends told of a witch who’d lived in…
As local authorities scurried around in panic, Sheriff Hadley knew he was in over his head with the previous night’s events. Rather than taking a chance on botching the job, he decided to bring in the Feds.
Agent Shane McNaught and his team pulled into the small town, believing they’d…
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