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The Writer’s Workshop

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Here are the prompts for this week’s Writer’s Workshop:


Write a post based on the word request.
Write a post in exactly 14 sentences.
Do you believe in destiny, or do you believe that life’s outcome is strictly the result of choice and circumstance? What experiences or evidence has led you to your position on fate versus free will?
Do you read memoir, biographies, or reference books? Which ones are your favorites and what do you get out of them? 
Write about a time when you wanted to escape or run.
Write a critical review of your favorite television show.

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I chose number 5: I enjoy reading memoirs or personal accounts of military personnel very much. Always being safe at home, I want to know what these people went through, and feel so much respect and even awe at their experiences. I also like military fictional accounts and stories. I’ve read many autobiographies and other biographies, some military but also historical figures and more, all just trying to be in their shoes for a bit and learn what they were thinking. One of my favorites was surprising, the book, “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah. This memoir was a learning experience. I liked his YouTube videos, but he is a fascinating man and the audio version of his book was very enjoyable.

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Writer’s Workshop Prompts for August 29, 2024

Stacking the Shelves

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I am looking forward to the sequel by T J Klune to one of my favorite books: “The House in the Cerulean Sea”. I was told there was no sequel to it or one of my other faves authored by Klune, “Under the Whispering Door”. The new book is available for preorder, expected to be on September 10 this year.

“Hope is the thing with feathers. And hope is the thing with fire.”

Featuring gorgeous golden yellow sprayed edges! Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade.

A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live there.

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Stacking The Shelves (August 25, 2024) 📚📚

SYW 8-26-24

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As always an optional gratitude section is included at the end.
Here are this week’s questions:

  1.  Did you have an imaginary friend as a child? No
  2.  Did you collect anything specific as a child: comics, baseball cards, teddy bears etc. Yes, rocks. And leaves🙄😀We had stone walls around our large acres so there were lots to choose from. I wanted to be a geologist and still love rocks. Funny I ended up marrying a geophysicist ☺️They have competing fields.
  3.  Were you a boy scout/brownie/girl guide as a child? No but as an adult I led a Campfire Girls troop. It was fun!
  4. Were you more likely to be with a group of friends or on your own as a child? Either on my own or with my sister, six years older.We lived on a farm away from other kids but we would walk to meet them.

Gratitude: I am grateful to have learned today a friend is home from the hospital.

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Share your World 26th August.

WDYS 8-26-24

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“Peaches, did you say peaches? Oh my god, Joe, I’ve just spent an hour in line at the farmer’s market after buying all the other things, and I did not buy any peaches! I don’t even think they’re in season yet! What? Your boss insists on fresh peach Bellinis for cocktails? Listen, Joe, this boss of yours is too demanding…doesn’t he have an office lackey to do his errands? What? You’re kidding, right?”

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What do you see # 251- August 26, 2024

dVerse Poets

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New to haibun? The form consists of one to a few paragraphs of prose—usually written in the present tense—that evoke an experience and are often non-fictional/autobiographical. They may be preceded or followed by one or more haiku—nature-based, using a seasonal image—that complement without directly repeating what the prose stated.

New to dVerse? Here is what you do:
Write a haibun that alludes to seasonal shift.
Post it on your personal site/blog.
Include a link back to dVerse in your post.
Copy your link onto the Mr. Linky.
Remember to click the small checkbox about data protection.
Read and comment on some of your fellow poets’ work.
Like and leave a comment below if you choose to do so.
Have fun!

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Today I’m repotting my tomato plant because of changes in weather with high winds and hard rain. No matter what I do the plant is tall in a pot and tips easily. Today I planted it in a heavy pot and placed it near a metal standing decoration for more support.

new gardener learns

safety of a cared for plant

hoping to see fruit

inexperience my tell

now sheltered, a wish is sent

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Haibun Monday 8-26-24: Another Seasonal Shift

Lover’s Lament

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This week’s prompts are:

  1. she’s drinking champagne
  2. spilling whisky
  3. I gotta go

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I’m feeling sad, eyes are misty

Him holding her and spilling whiskey

She’s drinking champagne

And I’m feeling the pain

I still love her but she’s with him

I don’t know what she sees in Jim

He’s big and burly

Hairy and surly

I can’t see the appeal

But guess it’s a done deal

Then I spy the rings

That really stings

I gotta go, maybe tomorrow

I’ll try to forget this hurt and sorrow.

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OLWG# 380- Gambler’s Gimlet

The Neighbor

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Joe looked around his tool shed and spied the drill, and all those lovely bits…he didn’t usually choose an act of revenge but he was at his wits’ end! The neighbor’s dog Sparky barked at everyone who passed his yard, whether in or out of the house. Joe was tired of it. He had talked to the neighbor about the dog’s constant barking and others did too and nothing changed. Joe couldn’t sleep thinking of what he could do to stop it.
Well of course he could harness the dog and drill it to death, but that would cause a bloody mess, and against his good nature, or he could build a cage with these tools and secret the dog away to another county. Yes, that would work.
Joe got busy building a cage and made sure he drilled a few air holes. He didn’t want to kill the dog, just get rid of him. After he finished the box, he went to the grocery and bought beef jerky, the really smelly kind and lined the cage to lure the dog. He dug a hole under the fence in the back, not visible to anyone, under a bush and set the cage. It didn’t take long before ol’ Sparky was inside the box and the trap door edge shut down immediately. Joe gathered it up quickly and put it in his trunk. He was off on a long road trip to leave the dog.
It was blissfully quiet for two weeks and all the neighbors sighed with relief. Of course Sparky’s owner was curious as to what happened to his dog but didn’t say a thing to his neighbors. Secretly, he was tired of the dog too.

Sparky was found by a farmer and trained him to guard his sheep, and lived a happy life.
“All’s well that ends well…”

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No Theme Thursday: 08.22.24