Getting into the mind of a sixteen year old (again) is not easy. 

 It's also not a fun place to be.  

I hated sixteen.  

 I hated it, loved it and lived it loud.  

It's showing up in m… Read full post »

My Grandma was born on October 31^st.  I grew up knowing Haloween as the candy holiday where I got dress up and then go to my grandma’s for her birthday.  A strict Catholic, she loved the holiday but always got… Read full post »

Character 1 has a meeting at Character 2’s office at 3pm.  Character 1’s train is supposed to arrive at the station at 2pm.  A driver from a car service will be waiting on the train platform to drive him/her to the meeting site.  But for some reason, at 3pm, Character 1… Read full post »

                       Write a story based on this image.  

I  remember the first time we saw her.  She began, shortly after our wordless and touchless… Read full post »

Dear Chaz,

There's leftover curry and rice if you're hungry.  I'll keep the Volvo but the van is  yours and full of gas - like another pompous old windbag.  Good luck with Daphne once she realizes you h… Read full post »

Prompt: Write a story inspired by this situation: There’s a break-in at a character's house. The robbers took everything—money, couch, clothes—except for one odd item that they left right in the middle of the character's living room. 

         … Read full post »

My story is supposed to be fiction today and as I type, I'm all fictioned out.  

I join the ranks of a LOT of you that have completed my first novel and am now "shopping an agent".… Read full post »

Your protagonist has just been to the worst concert of his/her life. Suddenly, after the show is over and she's left, the conductor shows up and offers to buy her a drink.

She agrees, under one condition—and that deal leads to one memorable night.

There's a lot you can… Read full post »

Write a story in which a character gets carried away with a new fad.

It was the eighties.

The magical decade when I found myself, a nerd on the debate team who spent my lunch hours cramming with sequestered briefs in the… Read full post »

The heart, my grandmother used to say, was like a scrapbook.  It held pieces of memories that together made up a wonderful collection of things that made your life unique to someone else’s.  I have learned, o… Read full post »

Write a story involving an Olympic sport. 

I feel ashamed to say it, but I hate swimming.

It didn't start off as a dream or a realization that this is what I was called to, it was just something that… Read full post »

I know this is a dumb post.

 It's not creative at all and shows that I am using this forum for the wrong reasons!  Still, here's the deal:

MY COMMENTS ARE NOT POSTING.

 You have had such wonderful posts lately and when I go to comment, all of them are swallowed.… Read full post »

Write a story in which, at some point, a character breaks into song.

 The day that little Alekwa died Chila brought in water from outside to pour him a bath.  She had heard that the water would… Read full post »

Write a story beginning with these words: She never let him

She never let him eat from a restaurant that had a drive through or paper napkins.  She never let him forget to floss… Read full post »