I do like to write. It was nice when we had a weekly writing group. Just to have a time set aside to definitely write a little bit at least once a week. Freewrites. Stuff just off the top of my head ( Read more... )

Writing prompt June 28th: Teapot.

Here is how I thought the song went:
I'm a little teapot
Short and Stout
Here is my handle and
here is my spout.
Pour in the water and
Tea comes out.

But this is how it really goes:
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Nancy thought up a writing prompt project that we could do for the rest of this month and the month of July. The words:( Read more... )

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Just got done watching Heart of a Dog by Laurie Anderson. I'm not sure where I got the idea to watch it but I think it was something that I heard here on LJ. Boy, am I glad I did. I loved it. I think I need to get my own copy so I can watch it again and again. I need to look into other things by Laurie Anderson now.


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I'm doing an email writing interchange with friends and we each put out a word for us all to write about (if we want). We share our writings with each other within the group. So far the words have been: soul, beauty, books, blossom, blue, sunshine, socializing. I still need to write something on socializing, beauty, books and sunshine and pick out ( Read more... )

I love my hand
holding a pen,
moving a pen.
The smoothness of its travel
across the paper.
Its tiny jerks as it connects to
what its next move will be.
The way it remembers words and the
spellings of words that my
mind doesn't even realize yet.
The way it moves without "thought" on my part.
It knows what I am thinking before I do.


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for the winter fisherman

winter's windows glow yellow at night
home fires burning
get closer -
the flicker of a blue TV telling stories
open the door and smell onions frying
chili cooking
welcome home
after a long day on the ice