Category: Book Highlights and Prompts
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Shadows in the Mist by Amy Flint
Nicknamed ‘The Shadow Reader’ for her ability to see ghosts, Dr. Porter Biggleswade is a straight-talking paranormal investigator. While Porter’s work takes her to the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, ghostly feuds are the least of her worries. A woman haunted by her living mother, a farmer plagued by spectral ewes, and a developer desperate to evict…
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The Memoirs of ‘I’ by Yolanda De Iuliis
To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world. In The Memoirs of ‘I’, De Iuliis covers the years 2014 to 2015, providing a daily encounter with her writings, visions, dreams and thoughts, allowing you to see the world from a different perspective. Philosophical and…
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Writing Prompt Contest Winner: Stevie O’Connor
The prompt: When Jean saw the man in the black business suit, she stopped, held her breath and prayed that he would not look up from his cell phone. Not wasting another moment, she hurried and ducked out of sight behind the garbage dumpster. Jean hadn’t opened her letters for weeks now, she didn’t…
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Grendel’s Mother by Diana Stout
It’s mid-6th century Denmark, and a 15-year-old girl–the only girl in a large family of boys–dreams of freedom and marrying her secret first love, a young farmer. She fights her father’s decision that she must wed an older widower who has young children. Then, a horrific event changes her life forever. Pregnant and discarded, having…
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Writing Prompt and Contest
It’s time to flex your writing muscles and have a little fun with words. Even if you’re not a writer at heart, give it a try: write a story (500 words or less) based on the following passage: When Jean saw the man in the black business suit, she stopped, held her breath and prayed…
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Writerly Friday: Prompt
The story is titled The Man from Sparta. Write an opening line and/or a short 500-word story.
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Writerly Friday: Prompt
Premise: A family moves into an old Victorian house in a sleepy town where everybody knows everybody. The house has been vacant for the last five years, and nobody knows why the previous family left so suddenly. Prompt: Write a 500 word story, but write it from the perspective of the house not the family. …
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Writerly Friday: Prompt
Write a story or poem based on this character and premise: a 71 year old widow who lives alone in her suburban home; she has no friends other than two old dogs and a cat; and she starts receiving visits from a strange young man who claims to be her son.
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Writerly Friday: Prompt
Write an opening story line (or paragraph) based on this story title: The Forest at Beacon Point.
Waking Writer 