What Do You Want to Make Today?
It’s National Poetry Month, so I had already planned some creative challenges around poetry, but I read online today that it is International Haiku Poetry Day, so who am I to pass up the chance to write a haiku (or several)? What is Haiku? It’s likely you had to write haiku in school, but if […]
So far this week we have mapped our daily route and somewhere we used to live, and we’ve made the sea monsters to go at the edges of our maps. Today I want to challenge you to map your mind, which can be as literal or figurative as you like. I found a brain shape […]
I’ve been cleaning my office this month, and I recently came across a bottle of magentic poetry words I’d kind of forgotten I had. Do you have some of these? They’re actually a lot of fun. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with the concept, it’s a collection of random words on magnets. You grab some and […]
I have always felt bad about calling this a craft challenge (though it’s called that because in my head it’s the Our Daily Craft Challenge) when really it’s all about boosting creativity in all sorts of ways. But you all will just have to bear with the name and realize that we’re doing a lot […]
In his book, On Writing Well, William Zinsser says all writers should read E.B. White’s The Elements of Style once a year. I feel the same way about his book, though admittedly I hadn’t read either for a while. I pulled out my copy of On Writing Well — procured from a collection of used […]
I’ve recently started writing for a local food publication, which is the closest to journalism I’ve come in a few years. A colleague has commented a couple of times on my ability to find stories and to see stories where she just says, “oh, that’s interesting.” In the biz, they call that having good news […]
There’s been a lot of talk lately in my little corner of the blogging world about professionalism and being a writer versus being a blogger versus being more of a reporter or writing for the web from a news perspective. While it’s certainly fine to give yourself any of these labels — or storyteller, family […]