Tag: creative writing
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Worlds Colliding
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Worlds Colliding.” Take two main characters from two different books (either fiction or nonfiction) and introduce them to, or have them meet, each other. What would happen next? I believe the Saturday morning television worlds of “H & R Puff N Stuff” colliding with the family comedy…
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“ The Mature and the Rested”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Young and the Rested.” When was the last time you felt truly rejuvenated and energized? What made you feel that way? My rejuvenation begins upon my return home from an exhilarating heart beating cardio bike ride or walk. Once the front door seal is broken, the fresh…
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“Lucky Star”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Lucky Star.” My three wishes are similar to my prayers. 1) I wish for great health for me as well for my family and friends. 2) I wish for a successful career as a writer, photographer, and painter. 3) I wish for the world to be more…
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“Fourth Wall”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fourth Wall.” You get to spend a day inside your favorite movie. Tell us which one it is — and what happens to you while you’re there. A couple of days ago, I wrote a response to the daily prompt, “you’re a winner,” where I promised to…
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“Thoughts”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “S/he Said.” Pause whatever you’re doing, and ask the person nearest you what they’re thinking about (call someone if you have to). Write a post based on it. I was seated with a friend when I read this prompt, and I immediately asked her what she was…
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“Love Patches”
Love Patches Friendships form the foundation allowing love to grow sturdy and strong. Love is the thread binding the patches of memories spent, during a lifetime. Love is the warm quilt, patched together, covering two people with memories of their lives and their love. M.J. Leake
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“The Golden Time of Day”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Golden Hour.” 6:00 AM: the best hour of the day, or too close to your 3:00 AM bedtime? The Golden Hour is essentially any time of day when there is a peacefulness and causing you to reflect on the day before or the day ahead. Whenever,…
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“Mix Tape MasterPiece”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Mix Tape Masterpiece.” You make a new friend. Make them a mix tape (or playlist, for the younger folks) that tells them who you are through song. At my age, I’m recall the mix tap vividly, as I recorded music from the radio, and since the unavailability…
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“Snapshot Stories”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Snapshot Stories.” Open the first photo album you can find — real or virtual, your call — and stop at the first picture of yourself you see there . Tell us the story of that photo. With hundreds of photos taken over the years from my cross…
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“All About Me”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “All About Me.” Explain why you chose your blog’s title and what it means to you. The journey and metamorphosis of my blog title from its beginnings as “Retirement Lifestyle, ” which was to document the incredible life change and challenges adjusting to retirement. Although, I researched,…
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“Fill in the Blank”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fill In the Blank.” Three people walk into a bar…. Three executives board members of the Acme Widget’s company, walked into a dance bar on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans Louisiana. They were in town to attend the companies yearly convention and corporate board meeting, beginning the following…
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“Fifteen Credits: Never Stop Learning”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fifteen Credits.” If you’re in school, are you enjoying your classes? If you’re out of school, what do you miss about it — or are you glad those days are over? I associate the Fifteen credits prompt with my college years and immediately I begin to recall…
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“Moved To Tears”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Moved to Tears.” Describe the last time you were moved to tears by something beautiful. Several tours of US national Parks have stirred my emotions to tears while viewing the sights the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Glacier National Park’s Going to Sun Road, and my…
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Photo101 / Day Six: Connect & Tag
In this age of social media, we hear the word connect often, don’t we? Connect with us on Facebook! Connect with me on LinkedIn! Given what today’s technologies can do, it feels like the world is getting smaller, and we’re more connected than ever before. There are many ways to interpret this theme: from a…
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Photo101/Day Seven: Big & Point of View
Today, let’s go big. Whether inside or outside, photograph something of massive size. Feel free to interpret big in your own way, and get creative with your shot. Capture all or just part of the subject. Place it in the foreground so it takes up the entire frame. Or shoot it from afar so it…
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“Turn, Turn, Turn,”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Turn, Turn, Turn.” Seasons change so quickly! Which one do you most look forward to? Which is your least favorite? This prompt invokes memories of the changing seasons I experienced during my life and especially when I played in the falling leaves of fall. My love of…
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“Beyond the Pale”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Beyond the Pale.” When was the last time you did something completely new and out of your element? How was it? Will you do it again? I recently began attempting to write a screen play and a radio play similar to the old radio shows from the…
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“Florida Beach Bum”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Interplanet Janet.” You get to design your own planet: tell us all about your planet — the weather, the seasons, the inhabitants. You get to design your own “Beach Bum” Inter-planet: tell us all about your Beach Bum Planet — the weather, the seasons, the inhabitants. Oh,…
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“Uncle Fester”
Tell us a story — fiction or non-fiction — with a twist we can’t see coming. Fester O’Connor, was always a mischievous child being raised in the small town of Gumption FL. Two days before he graduated from high school in 1958, he painted the roof of the school red with a white cross as…
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“My First Libster Award”
This is my first Libster award nomination and I want to thank fellow blogger Living Over the Hill Celebrating the beginning of life, again! She began the blogging journey as I did in 2014, As an acceptance for this award, I have been asked to answer the following eleven questions about myself, “An Aspiring Writer” and…
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“Playlist of the week”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Playlist of the Week.” Tell us how your week went by putting together a playlist of five songs that represent it. I love this prompt idea, as I have a diverse and eclectic group of music I listen to as I write and read throughout the day. My…
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“Burnt”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Burnt.” Remember this prompt, when your home was on fire and you got to save five items? That means you left a lot of stuff behind. What are the things you wish you could have taken, but had to leave behind? This above prompt is an extension…
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“Burning Down The House”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Burning Down the House.” Your home is on fire. Grab five items (assume all people and animals are safe). What did you grab? It is 2:00 am and the house is on fire, the kids are safe outside with the dog who alerted everyone and is on the…
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“For Posterity”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “For Posterity.” Your blog just became a viral sensation. What’s the one post you’d like new readers to see and remember you by? Write that post. After circumnavigating the earth by sailboat, my blog went viral upon the posting after my hike to the Summit of Mount…
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“Cliche”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Cliché.” Clichés become clichés for a reason. Tell us about the last time a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush for you. I’m not a risk taker at anything in life and wisdom has taught me the proper detail planning will assure I…
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“Secret Santa”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Secret Santa.” You get to choose one gift — no price restrictions — for any person you want. The caveat? You have to give it anonymously. What gift would you give, and to whom? Over the years, I have played the role of Secret Santa either at…
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Final Trio
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: ” For our final trio prompt of the year, write about any topic you wish, but make sure your post features a bookcase, something cracked, and a song you love. Several days ago, my Christmas spirit was fully operational as I enjoyed my new bluetooth wireless headset,…
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The Language of Things
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Language of Things.” You have to write a message to someone dear to you, telling that person how much he/she means to you. However — instead of words, you can only use 5-10 objects to convey your emotions. Which objects do you choose, and what do they…
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Kicked the Bucket, the anti-list.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Kick the Bucket.” What are the top items on your anti-bucket list — those things you never, ever want to do, places you never want to visit, books you never want to read, etc.? Well, before I retired and before the movie, “The Bucket List”, I had…
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Alphabet Soup
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Alphabet Soup.” Write down the letters of the ABC. For each one, choose a word that begins with that letter. Now, write a post about anything — using all the words you’ve selected. A – Always B – Best C – Child D – Dressed E –…
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Sweet little lies
In response to the Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Sweet Little Lies.” As kids, we’re told, time and again, that lying is wrong. Do you think that’s always true? In your book, are there any exceptions? Around the age of three or four, I was told to never tell a lie. I was baptized promising never…
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All or Nothing; Peaceful Easy Feeling.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “All or Nothing?.” “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” — Sylvia Plath Which do you find more dangerous: wanting nothing, or wanting everything? I find neither wanting nothing or wanting everything is dangerous, as, I spent the…
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The “Play”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “One at a Time.” In response to the Daily Post’s writing prompt: “One at a Time.” Today, writes a post on the topic of your choice — using only one-syllable words. With the lights dimmed in the gymnasium, fifty children of the Paulson Youth Center, all below the…
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Recently Acquired
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Recently Acquired.” What’s the most important (or interesting, or unexpected) thing about blogging you know today that you didn’t know a month ago? The most important, interesting and unexpected experience I discovered during the past month and including the past four months since I began this blogging…
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Gut Feeling
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Gut Feeling.” When’s the last time you followed your instinct despite not being sure it was the right thing to do? Did it end up being the right call? I believe women hold a distinctive adavantage with the ability to listen and follow their instinctive inside voice better…
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Wronged Objects
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Wronged Objects.” If your furniture, appliances, and other inanimate objects at home had feelings and emotions, to which item would you owe the biggest apology? For the past 19 years I have maintained a 1991 Ford Explorer, and as the ever frugal wise man I am, I…
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Not for Thee
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Not for Thee.” What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received that you wouldn’t give to anyone else? Why don’t you think it would apply to others? I have received excellent advice from my parents especially as a young child of 5 years of age when…
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An Extreme tale
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “An Extreme Tale.” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities When was the last time that sentence accurately described your life? The prompt for today, “An Extreme Tale,” directly applies to when, I was motorcycling along…
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Someone Else’s Island
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Someone Else’s Island.” We’ve all been asked what five objects we’d take with us to a desert island. Now it’s your best friend’s (or close relative’s) turn to be stranded: what five objects would you send him/her off with? Marisa Hudson, at the age of 60-plus, I…
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Waiting Room
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Waiting Room.” “Good things come to those who wait.” Do you agree? How long is it reasonable to wait for something you really want? I agree and believe good things come to those who wait, although after many years of life, it is also patience, that becomes…
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By hand
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “By Hand.” The moment I read the post asking what is the most significantly sentimental special gift I have ever received tcaused my mind to recall a Christmas gift my son gave me for Christmas. The gift was wrapped in white tissue paper, inside of a green…
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Trio #4
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Trio no. 4.” After twenty-nine years in the US military, a thirty-two year marriage to my sweet heart sitting next to me as we speed along interstate 90 through the great state of South Dakota, in our new 1997 Chevrolet Corvette, in mid July with the center…
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Oil, Meet Water
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Oil, Meet Water.” My twin boys are as distinctive as Oil and Water, however their love for one another is deeper than anyone can appreciate. I recognized early on their differences as they played in the backyard with one playing in the dirt pile and the other…
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Literate for a day
(Daily) Someone or something you can’t communicate with through writing (a baby, a pet, an object) can understand every single word you write today, for one day only. What do you tell them? It has been seven months since I began communication via a chat room, then email, and several difficult telephone conversations in broken…
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By Heart
(Daily prompt) You’re asked to recite a poem (or song lyrics) from memory — what’s the first one that comes to mind? Does it have a special meaning, or is there another reason it has stayed, intact, in your mind? One of the first songs I can recall are the nursery rhymes, from before I found…
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Buyers Beware?
(Daily Prompt) The year is 2214, and your computer’s dusty hard drive has just resurfaced at an antique store. Write a note to the curious buyer explaining what he or she will find there. After two hundred years, my last computer hard drive was found locked inside a faded green Tupperware lock a seal container…
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Second-Hand Stories
Many years ago, when I just a young man in the US Army, I was placed on guard duty when I was issued a new device call night vision goggles. This was high-tech in the early eighties and I was happy to utilize the latest technology while on guard duty especially at night. Before the…
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Trick or Treat
(Daily Prompt) It’s Halloween, and you just ran out of candy. If the neighborhood kids (or anyone else, really) were to truly scare you, what trick would they have to subject you to? I don’t believe anyone, especially children will be able to scare me, because I am the scary neighbor, who terrifies my neighborhood…
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Writing excitement!
Just over a year ago, I began reading books to pass the time as I sat on the beach, while occasionally looking out into the Gulf of Mexico in Southwest Florida. I found a sense of contentment in the books of adventure, science fiction, mystery and romance. I was profoundly grateful to be afforded the opportunity…
Expedition Nomadic Adventures 