I recently finished reading a book called "Hawley Book of the Dead" by Chrysler Szarlan. Over the first few pages, the first person narrator foreshadowed the death of her husband at least six different ways. It wasn't subtle, she came right out and said, "On the day I killed my husband --" in the first or second line of the book, but each instance ( Read more... )

Did you know the 5-word story game has a legitimate origin? Well, I did not. According to Wikipedia, the exercise to which we are accustomed is grandfathered by a game called “The Exquisite Corpse“. The article describes it as “a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in ( Read more... )

Individuals perceive and process information uniquely. As we progress through the second week of May, let’s think about how our characters or speakers of our poems interpret the world you create for them.

Last week I had to buy new tires and the shop was swamped so I took advantage of their fantastic shuttle service and got a free ride home. I ( Read more... )

My Short Fiction Writing professor loved visual aids. She often had a fat black marker in hand during class and rarely missed the opportunity to slash an inverted check mark-like shape across a dry-erase board (or one of our papers) while reminding us, "YOUR GOAL IS TO DEVIATE FROM THE TRADITIONAL NOVEL STRUCTURE! THINK OF AN ICEBERG!"  Apparently ( Read more... )

Good day, my Friends of Fire.  Happy Friday, and happy weekend ( Read more... )

Good morning to all of my friends in the Flame ( Read more... )