Category Archives: Writing Stuff

Hi again – this week we’re supposed to work on “setting.”  As I was walking with Al yesterday in town I commented “It happened right here.  This is where “I” was shot.”  It’s funny how the imagination just takes over. … Continue reading →

Remember the bumper sticker story?  For this assignment we had to take a line from something written previously and write a little fiction using some of the things we learned in this week’s module about telling a story – conflict, … Continue reading →

Came home from work today.  I’m really behind in school right now – hey it happens.  This assignment was due Sunday,  I did the rest of the homework last night and left this for today, figuring a decent effort too … Continue reading →

Addendum 2/2/11:  The problem I have with poetry is that I keep it in my head and edit it all day driving around at work.  Today it has been bugging me that this didn’t have the same magical with a … Continue reading →

Months ago I wrote Night Swimming – about skinny dipping back in New York at a place we weren’t supposed to be.  For the writing class – we have several choices of things to write each module – I chose … Continue reading →

First of all, I dropped into a Barnes and Noble today to find a nice new journal book with which to follow the directions in the class I’m taking.  To jot stuff down all the time, blah blah blah.  This … Continue reading →

If you can all hang in there with me, I’m supposed to be writing in my “journal” regularly, and there are prompts for that in this writing class, so I figure this is as good a place as any to … Continue reading →

Our first assignment is about imagery.  We are to take a bumper sticker we’ve seen, describe the car, the person, what we find in the car etc. etc.  Here goes, for your reading pleasure, my first (since high school) creative … Continue reading →

Wow.  Don’t ask me how this happened but I ended up on craigslist tonight looking for something and it dawned on me that it might be a nice place to mine for ideas to write about.   Was it ever.  Because I’m a bit voyeuristic I … Continue reading →

This is kind of a rough draft for submission to The Sun, a literary magazine that invites its readers to submit essays on certain subjects each month.  One that is coming in the future intrigues me, The Back Door, so … Continue reading →