Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Writing exercise

Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter's What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, Exercise #1-Beginnings

Write ten of your own opening lines for ten different stories.

  • "You're such a cock-sucking, piece-of-shit, prick!"
  • I'd never seen anything more grotesque in my life as what I'd laid eyes on that very moment.
  • Mr. Walker always said I was a fighter.
  • Mrs. Bennet took her time walking up the gentle slope at the foot of the mountain, weaving through the sharp rocks that littered the terrain and keeping on the lookout for critters.
  • This was a day just like any other; the kids were broken off into units playing, I was playing my part as silent observer while writing in my journal, and the weather was gearing up to be a scorcher.
  • Ellie stared hard at herself in the mirror and for the last time, slid her wedding band off of her finger and slowly, gently laid it on her dresser.
  • The pillow was soaked with my tears for all of the drunken men that had shared my bed.
  • He found the old plaid cookbook on the top shelf, pulled it down, dusted it off and carefully opened it to page 342, his favorite, upside down pineapple cake.
  • As I watched his worldly possessions spiral and tumble to the ground from my third story balcony I was overcome with a calm satisfaction.  I did this.
  • Let me just say, for starters, that people with dirty fingernails creep me the fuck out and while I sat in the waiting room of Dr. Wang's office staring down at the absolute filth collected under the fingernails of the child next to me, I felt like the walls were closing in on me.
How did I do?

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

http://creativewritingprompts.com/

#40 List 20 things that annoy me. Pick one and write about it.

1.       When someone wakes up the sleeping baby
2.       Smelly people
3.       Not being able to finish something in the time I have allotted for it
4.       My husband pestering me about sex
5.       People tying the bread bag in a knot
6.       Bad endings in movies
7.       My older son jumping on the bed right next to the baby
8.       Dirty bathrooms
9.       Not being able to find an ingredient in the store
10.   Getting home from a store only to realize that I bought the wrong thing
11.   When I'm tired and the baby won't sleep
12.   People "should-ing" on me
13.   Not having enough money to do what I want, when I want
14.   The speed at which the hair on my legs and bikini area grows back after shaving
15.   Chin hairs
16.   The human race, myself included
17.   Christian's need to spread the word
18.   Customer service reps who don't know the answer but choose to act like they do instead of finding out for sure
19.   When I want to eat something but all the dishes or silverware are dirty
20.   Traffic jams caused by people just slowing down to stare at the mayhem on the other side of the median

We have all been there.  Stuck in a traffic jam, trying to figure out what it is at the end of the long line of cars in front of you.  You swerve over slightly trying to get a better angle to see what the hold up is, as if that is going to make you go any faster.  Maybe it just gives us the peace of knowing so that we may make guesses about how long it will take to get home.  Finally you get to the front and realize that there is actually nothing happening on your side of the median at all but that the entire traffic jam has been caused by people slowing down just to stare at <insert random traffic hold up here> happening on the OTHER side!  As soon as you pass this spectacular event that has occurred on the other side of the road, traffic immediately speeds back up to normal and everyone is back on their way. So annoying!!!!

Monday, April 4, 2011

Wrote my first real short story...

It is a twilight fan fiction short story called The Summer I Met Your Brother.  I the story was written for a Photo-history class I am taking.  We were to pick a photo from the 1800's and write a short story about it.




When I saw this photo I immediately thought of Bella and I knew it was the one.  Anyway, the story is about 4000 words and here is the link if you would like to check it out.  Leave me a review and let me know what you think.


The Summer I Met Your Brother
Short story. Bella tells Alice the story of how she met Edward at camp one summer back when they were just kids.
Twilight - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 3 - Words: 4173 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-30-11 - Published: 3-29-11