Available on Amazon. This book is for anyone who wants to use creative writing to feel better by externalizing their inner apocalypse. Using 25 writing prompts with evocative photographs, readers are encouraged to make meaning of their life experiences by discovering, emphasizing and illuminating changed perspectives. Every character and every story we write, is autobiographical. … Continue reading Love and Apocalypse – Externalize Your Inner Apocalypse with Creative Writing
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what shoes mean
Write the story that begins: "We arrive barefoot, and leave shoeless..." photo: ebszabo
sognare
Write your self-portrait in a dream: photo: ebszabo
tilt
Days are longer in the spring, as the Earth’s axis increases its tilt relative to the Sun. ebszabo Climate Fiction (CliFi) is a genre that addresses the ways that climate change is already transforming our world. By anticipating and elaborating on what these changes might mean in the not so distant future, writers of CliFi use … Continue reading tilt
self portrait
Create the character for whom this is a self portrait. ebszabo
only trouble
Janet Burroway wrote this about story: "Only trouble is interesting." ebszabo What we believe becomes the landscape in which we live. Write the story of a character who's beliefs created this place to call home. ebszabo
valentines day
Weather is destiny. Prove this true, with the story of a couple packing up their house to leave each other during a blizzard. What happens when they find themselves housebound, surrounded by 6 feet of snow? Write that love story.
taking leave
How and why we take our leave from a place can define who we become - and it can make us unreliable narrators of our own lives. ebszabo Write the character who has lived here, beginning with the moment they walk away. Capture the ways in which memory (back-story) is influenced by their reason for leaving, … Continue reading taking leave
co·nun·drum
In great story, the beginning starts in the middle, and the ending is in the beginning. ebszabo Writing Prompt: Demonstrate this truth, with a story from this photograph.
frozen
A metaphor is an implied comparison between two things that are unlike each other but have something in common. When used with restraint, metaphor is an economical way of conveying depth and complexity without ‘telling’ your reader what to think. Think about how an eggshell conveys fragility, an icicle conveys chill, or a shredder conveys … Continue reading frozen
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