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Writing Exercise: “Autumn in a Pittsburgh Suburb” (Sense of Place)
“… [H]e could start up his coal business again. He’d heard someone call it “black gold” – or maybe that was oil? The hill was chock full of it, anyhow. That was it. He would dig for coal.” Continue reading
Exercise: Begin a Story – “Strange Lands”
“It’s time to go, and I get up to find my bag. The people in the rows around me are muddling along just as I am. Despite this, I am obsessed with the idea that I’m not moving fast enough, and that they all hate me for my incompetence as an international traveler.” Continue reading
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Tagged air travel, airbus, anxiety, cz, Czech Republic, european travel, european trip, fiction, fiction writing, flash draft, flash fiction, foreigner, jet lag, outsider, Prague, travel, travel anxiety, travelogue, write, write every day, writing, writing exercise
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Batman and Joker, Couples Therapy
“That’s what you think, but you don’t understand me. He -” he nods toward Bruce Wayne – “understands. A name and a title are two different things. “No one ever called me by my name. Not since my mother.” He winced. Continue reading
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Tagged character writing, characterization, everyday writing, fiction, fiction writing, flash draft, flash fiction, joker, show don't tell, therapy, write every day, writing, writing exercise, writing habits, writing practice, writing prompt
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Point of View Exercise – Travel Memoir (of 2014, written in 2020)
The man, pausing momentarily in uncertainty on Platform #3, makes a sudden turn as if kicked into gear. He marches down the stairs. He banks around a local man and his aged wife. The old man drags luggage up the ramp running alongside the stairs as the wife looks on in the silent judgment of a person who both requires someone’s assistance and one who doesn’t approve of the manner in which the assistance is being rendered. Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, Czech Republic, euro travel, europe, Europe by Train, european travel, fiction, literary devices, narrative, perspective, point of view, rail travel, slow tourism, Tourism, tourist, train travel, travel, travelogue, usti nad lebem, writing, writing assignment, writing challenge, writing exercise, writing prompt
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