Tag: writing encouragement

Past Meets Present

My writing group came up with this photo for a writing prompt. “Create a short story about a dinosaur holding an American flag and holding onto a Palm tree along the side of the road.” Here is what I came up with: At the corner of a busy street, there was a sight unlike any other. A dinosaur with painted…

Dont Tell Anyone

This short story is based on the prompt “Don’t Tell Anyone” Lily loved secrets. Not mean secrets, but exciting ones, like the time she found a robin’s egg hidden in the bushes. This secret was even better. During an enchantment ritual at school her girlfriend Angela had shown her a brown paper bag, closed at the top with small holes…

A New Year

My writing group chose the prompt: The Start Of The New Year. Here’s what I came up with: The aroma of pine needles stubbornly clung to the air, a ghost of Christmas past. January had arrived, cloaked in fog and silence, a stark contrast to the snowy merriment of December. Amelia was taking down the last of the holiday decorations…