Every Wednesday Rickety Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word story or poem or anything that works for you. After you post your work on your blog, go back to her site and add a link to your post on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. I’m going to try to keep up with…
Kiki’s Delivery Service: Magic Can’t Save the Story (Review) (via The Cinematic Katzenjammer) “A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.” Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki, Rated: G, 103 minutes There are two things that I love…
“Ain’t that ugly over there? We got the prettiest place on earth.” This is the first line of dialogue of Beasts of the Southern Wild, and it’s spoken by Wink to his daughter Hushpuppy as they float near the levee that separates New Orleans from “The Bathtub,” where they live. The Bathtub is like a…
Every Wednesday Rachmaninoff Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word story or poem or anything that works for you. After you post your work on your blog, go back to her site and add a link to your post on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. I’m going to try to keep up with…
Reblogged partly from my very first post, because you never saw it. ________________________________________ There are a few phrases that people are constantly using that are just plain wrong, and that may or may not be their fault. However, what really bugs me is when I try to tell them how to fix it, but they…
Every Wednesday Rorschach Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word story or poem or anything that works for you. After you post your work on your blog, go back to her site and post a link to your blog entry on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. I’m going to try to keep up…
So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment. But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest. “C’mon. It’s just my nose. Not like last week.” ______________________________ Now get on with your creative bad self and come up…
Many uncountable years ago, Dwarf King Thráin ruled a beautiful and complex underground city of Erebor, carved inside the Lonely Mountain. For too many years, his grandson Thorin watched as Thráin’s want for gold and jewels became an obsession, and too much was collected and kept inside the mountain. How much gold is too much? …
Arbitrage: the simultaneous buying and selling of the same thing with the intention of making a profit. It is not easy to greatly admire and respect someone while also hating their guts and wishing reindeer would chew their innards for an appetizer and subsequently crap it out for it to be then picked apart by…
Darius (Aubrey Plaza), a recent college graduate, just wants to find a job that will eventually get her out of her father’s house and out on her own. Although she can’t get hired as a waitress, she lands an intern position with Seattle Magazine, a not-so-prestigious publication that covers the area in and around its…
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