Writing Exercise
John and Paul's Three-Word Haiku/Senryu Unofficial Challenge
Ladies and gentlemen, poets and literary vandals. I bring glad tidings from the land of hope and glory, (Hallelujah!, shout it from the rooftops, etc., etc., exit feckin’ stage left) a fat orange retard and a man whom I'd follow into battle. Well, whom I might follow into a pub fight. Okay, maybe not. (Stage right, then?) But, I'd definitely follow him to the pub if he was going to buy a round or two, John Cox. (Scotland’s on my bucket list … what da ya know bout that?) Oh, and the land of haggis, more scenery than people, Olympic standard swearing, comedy, film, literature, music, dance, beauty, whisky, and me, Paul.
By Paul Stewart5 days ago in Writers
To Write A Villanelle
Introduction The villanelle is now my preferred poetic form. My audience and friends tell me how good my villanelle's are but they seem to be scared of the form. While I have written many excellent villanelles none have been awarded a Vocal Top Story, though that may be because I am on Vocal's naughty shelf, they don't see me as a poet or writer.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 days ago in Writers
Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality
The Failure of Reduction and the Need for Synthesis There is a persistent failure in many modern attempts to explain what a human being is. Some frameworks reduce the person entirely to matter, insisting that identity, consciousness, morality, and meaning are nothing more than emergent properties of physical processes. Other frameworks move in the opposite direction, detaching spirit from reason and grounding belief in intuition alone, often at the cost of coherence or accountability. Both approaches fail because both misunderstand essence. One denies that essence exists at all. The other treats it as something vague and undefinable.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast7 days ago in Writers
World War III
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What If? Writing Exercise for Fiction Writers prompts The Exercise — Choose a story to work with that is still in an early draft form. Read it through so you are thoroughly familiar with it and with the characters. Then find a place in the story to complete and insert the following sentences underlined below (change the pronoun as necessary.) Then come up with a few of your own inserts. The Objective - To experience how your semiconscious imagination is capable of conjuring up material that is absolutely organic to your story for each "fill-in" from the above list. Writers who do this exercise are always amazed at how something so seeminly artifical can provide them with effective additions to their stories.
By Denise E Lindquist9 days ago in Writers
The Day My Writing Practice Took a Slight Detour
I feel fortunate in life to live just a couple of blocks up from the beach. The beach is my happy place. Some days, and even more so when the weather is beautiful, I will push myself to take a slow walk down and sit and practise some of my writing exercises. And when I say: push myself, I’m embarrassed this may come across as taking where I live for granted or even laziness. But truthfully, it’s more about my procrastination.
By Chantal Christie Weiss10 days ago in Writers
Sinners Becomes First Film in History to Earn 16 Oscar Nominations. AI-Generated.
By [Your Name] Hollywood history was rewritten this week as Sinners, the latest cinematic sensation, achieved a milestone no film has ever reached before: 16 Academy Award nominations. From its compelling performances to groundbreaking technical achievements, the film has captured the attention of critics and audiences worldwide, solidifying its place in cinema history.
By Salaar Jamali11 days ago in Writers
The Last Vacation at the Beach
I didn’t know it was going to be my last vacation at the beach. That’s the strange thing about endings—they rarely announce themselves. They arrive disguised as ordinary days, warm and harmless, like sunlight on your face when you step out of the car and breathe in salt without thinking twice.
By Imran Ali Shah12 days ago in Writers
