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Christmas Articles, Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Strange Christmas Traditions: The Christmas Pickle
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Fiction Writing, Words, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Shades of Autumn
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Whether enjoying a drive through the city or taking a walk through the woods during autumn, your eyes will feast on a spectacular seasonal palette of colors. Each of the below words describes a more precise shade of color than just saying an item is brown, orange, red, or yellow. Amber is a dark orange…
Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Veijo Rönkkönen Sculpture Park Picture Writing Prompts
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. (Richard Petracca) Will you be the one to write those thousand words? When you look at a picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see…
Fiction Writing, Suffering for Beauty, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Suffering for Beauty: Ohaguro, the Practice of Blackening Teeth
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To what lengths would you go to make yourself attractive to the opposite sex? Would you dye your teeth black? Down through the years, women have bound their feet or worn corsets. Today, some still wear lip plates or neck rings. Here in America, many wear high heels. But women aren’t the only sex to endure discomfort to…
Fiction Writing, Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Waterfalls Picture Writing Prompts
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. (Richard Petracca) Will you be the one to write those thousand words? When you look at a picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see…
Fiction Writing, Grammar & Punctuation, Holidays, Writing Prompts and Exercises
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
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October is National Sarcastic Awareness Month, but people use sarcasm every day of the year. How often are you sarcastic? What is sarcasm? Sarcasm, according to the dictionary, is harsh or bitter derision. It is irony or the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. When used…
Fiction Writing, Words, Writing Prompts and Exercises
A Blellum & Other Contemptible People
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How contemptible is your character? Is she a blellum? Could she be a buffarilla or a fa-ma-fuff? Would she be smart to marry a fritlag? Not all of these words can be found in today’s dictionaries, so where did I find them? I found them in word books, three of which are listed at the…
Fiction Writing, Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Wacky Street Names
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Are you trying to figure out a crazy street name to use in your story? I’ve compiled a list of these for you to refer to for ideas, and the names of some streets are truly wacky. Most of these streets are located in the United States, but there are some that are in England…
Fiction Writing, Town Names, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Towns with Car Names
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Are you writing a mystery about cars? Or maybe you are a car fanatic. Have you ever thought about using a town with the name of a car in your story? Below you will find the list of towns that have the same name as automobiles. The states they’re in are listed in alphabetical order,…
Fiction Writing, Household, Product Reviews, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Talking Trash
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Trash cans haven’t always been around for families to dispose of their trash in. So what did they do with their garbage? That depended on where they lived. Farmers and their families turned food scraps into pig slop. Of course, pigs will eat anything, even dead bodies, so who knows what was fed to them.…
