The Writing Life
A Reflection on Mirrors: A Writing Prompt
It is almost October 31st, the night best known for pumpkins and ghouls and spooky stories. From whence do these stories originate? Imagination or experience? What if one…
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Life is Meant to Be Lived
Reflections on Agatha Christie’s Absent in the Spring “And now, just a special word. No lazy thinking, Joan, my dear! Don’t just accept things at their face value—because…
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From the Corner
October. . .
What lurks behind the creaky doors...?
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Hemingway…deep in thought
Prompt Engineering
How to Use Prompt Word Patterns to Create an AI Research Assistant
AI Models Cannot Read Your Mind Writers, creative thinkers, we all spend much time and attention in researching our subject and double-checking our facts before publishing our work.…
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A Place to Write
When you hear the siren call to jot down a thought, a story, a memory, why do you hesitate? Perhaps you don’t have enough time to do…
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Innovative Memoirs
How Does One Write About One’s Life? Whenever I meet two people in love, I typically ask them: How did you meet? It’s incredible the many different ways…
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Small Things Like These
“Before going back into the house, he’d washed his face at the horse-trough, breaking the ice on the surface, pushing his hands down deep in the cold and…
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Good Night Avant-garde, Sleep Well
Good Morning Innovative Lit! Innovative Literature. What does this mean? Something new, something that pushes the boundaries of what we consider literature? Yes. We used to…
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