Is there a Christmas pickle on your Christmas tree?
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
The Power of Imagination
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What is imagination? It is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. It is the ability of the mind to be creative. Can you imagine how boring life would be if not for the imagination? The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books…
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, 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, 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.…
Collective Nouns, Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
The Shoebill Murder Bird
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Shoebill murder birds don’t even look real to me, but they are. They can only be found in various parts of Africa. Their favorite places to hang out are in dense tropical marshes, swamps, and wetlands. So the chances of you running across this real-life hippogriff in a dark alley are nonexistent. That is comforting.…
Fiction Writing, Suffering for Beauty, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Suffering for Beauty – High Heels
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How much pain would you be willing to endure to be thought of as beautiful? To what lengths would you be willing to go to ensure that you were thought of as sexy? How much trauma would you be willing to put your feet and your body through? For me, wearing high heels isn’t safe…
Fiction Writing, Words, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Snow By Any Other Name. . .
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Snow is beautiful when it first falls. When its pristine whiteness covers everything, it creates a gorgeous winter wonderland. Unfortunately, it has to melt, and when it does, the beautiful winter wonderland turns into a dirty mess that is not pleasing to look at. Sposh, soft slushy mud or snow, is one of the words…
Fiction Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Cats and Empty Boxes
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If you share your life with one or more cats and throw an empty box on the floor, what have you just done? Have you just made a mess to clean up later? No, you’ve just given your cats a place to hide, a place to curl up and relax, a place to sleep. Boxes…
